At 07:22 PM 8/25/2011 -0400, John Manly wrote: >Hello. I have a few questions about BANNERS that I can't seem to find the answer to in the documentation: > >1) What is the difference and intended usage of the BOTTOM_BANNER vs. the DEFAULT_BOTTOM_BANNER templates? I would have thought that DEFAULT_BOTTOM_BANNER was a site-wide default, with BOTTOM_BANNER being list specific, but when I look in a given list's MAILTPL file, I see both. In what sort of circumstances should one use one over the other? DEFAULT_BOTTOM_BANNER is ignored if found in the list-level template, so why it's in the template file is anybody's guess. Possibly someone copied it in thinking it was needed. >2) How does the <list>.MAILTPL file get populated when a new list is created? Where are the true site-wide defaults kept from which these are copied? (SITE.MAILTPL? default.MAILTPL? How these work in terms of which overrides which?) There is no listname.MAILTPL file until you create it, either by a PUT operation via email or by editing one of the templates available in the web interface. Server-wide defaults are kept in DEFAULT.MAILTPL and are used unless they are overridden by the list-level template. >3) What triggers the creation of the <list>.MAILTPL file at all? Is one always created unconditionally at list creation time, or only if some kind of template modifications have taken place? (On my system I have some lists that have a MAILTPL file and some that don't, and some of the ones that do are ones I know have not had their templates specifically modified.) I think I just answered that above :) >4) Does the "#" character have any special significance in a MAILTPL file? As a comment delimeter, for example? No. You start a comment line with ".*" as documented. > I have a MAILTPL file that looks like this: > >>>> BOTTOM_BANNER Default bottom banner >.CS ISO-8859-1 >To unsubscribe from the list: <mailto:&LISTNAME-signoff-request@&MYHOST>&LISTNAME-signoff-request@&MYHOST > >.hh on >######################################################################## > >##To unsubscribe from the &LISTNAME list, click the following link: >##.BB &LITEFE = 0 >## &*TICKET_URL(&LISTNAME_ENCODED,SIGNOFF); >##.ELSE >##&WA_URL;?SUBED1=&LISTNAME_ENCODED&A=1 >##.EB >.hh off > >Not surprisingly, it causes errors on messages about the ".hh" directive (which is invalid), but the "#" characters don't seem to show up either. Maybe that's because of the directive error, but those prefix "##" look like someone thought it was a commend delimiter, so I just want to double-check before I fix it. Testing on my test list indicates that if you remove the .hh block, it will work. (Which was what I figured but I thought I'd test it to make sure.) What you ought to be getting in the mail with it set up like the above is something like >>> Error in line 4 of LISTNAME.MAILTPL: unknown formatting command <<< -> .hh on <- instead of the banner. Nathan ############################ To unsubscribe from the LSTSRV-L list: write to: mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the following link: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=LSTSRV-L&A=1