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[Adam Bernstein <address@concealed>]

Mark Sallee wrote:
> Adam,
> I've attempted to add these changes to admin.pm, but it isn't working.
> Do you have any more documentation or tips on how to populate the
> variables in the footer? The main variable I want for the footer is
> [%listname%].
>
> I have also submitted this to the Feature Requests for Sympa:
> https://sourcesup.cru.fr/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=4632&group_id=23&atid=170

Mark --

You may have misunderstood my patch, and what you seem to be asking for in 
your feature request requires a deeper architecture change in Sympa (which 
they may or may not be working on -- I've lost track).  There is no parsing 
of variables in realtime when a message is distributed to a list, so 
there's no way to use them in a header or footer and have them substituted.

All my patch does is create a customized message footer for each newly 
created list, based on a new template that you need to create.  This 
template *would* contain those variables, which the list creation code 
would parse, producing a final message footer for the list that contains 
the list's specific info, with *no* variables in it.  So the variable 
substitution is done only at list creation time; after that, it's all literal.

Sympa team's response to doing variable substitution in real-time has 
always been about the conflicts with performance and batching, although 
that's actually only relevant if you're talking about per-user 
substitution.  One should be able to do a single substitution for the whole 
batch using information that's the same for all of them, ie. list name and 
such, without affecting performance or batching.  But that's yet to come, 
as far as I know.

     adam