On Thu, May 28, 2026, at 8:20 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Paul Tomblin via Mailman-users writes:
Like I said, there’s no templates listed in the UI.
Ah, I read that as "no relevant templates".
Sorry, I wasn't clearer because I didn't know about the non-UI templates before.
The migration from Mailman 2 doesn't need a working Postorius, so it doesn't use the same mechanism as the UI. It should write to a parallel tree under the $mailman_home/$var/templates directory. The fallback tree is in site-packages/mailman/templates, and otherwise
Turns out there are a lot of files in /opt/mailman/mm/var/templates/lists, but I hadn't noticed them before because most of them where empty. In a few of the ones I don't subscribe to or which don't get a lot of traffic, those templates were "-- \nAdministration:" or sometimes "== \n-- Administration: %(web_page_url)slistinfo/%(_internal_name)s". I suspect that the ones that didn't have the text after Administration: versus the ones that did were some sort of bug in the conversion script, because I'm pretty sure I had the same footer configured for all those lists.
But anyway, I had no idea those templates were there, so I'll have to file that away in my memory for next time I wonder why lists have footers that don't show up in the UI. Am I right in thinking that a UI configured template will override the ones in that directory tree?
-- Paul Tomblin