FSFE Mailman Templates

This repository contains the default templates we use for our lists (in templates/) and some custom ones for specific lists (in lists/).

Translate custom FSFE templates

Most of the templates in the templates/ folder are Mailman defaults, but some important ones have been changed by us to look nicer and/or to contain additional information.

• listinfo.html
• subscribe.html
• subscribeack.txt

Under lists/, you will find templates for some special mailing lists like the newsletter. You can translate everything in the en folder and put your contribution under a separate folder named after your language code.

If you intent to translate them (which is highly welcome!), please note:

• You may take some of the texts from the already existing translations.
• In the HTML files, you may copy a lot from fsfe.org.
• In the custom HTML files, please note the comment in the first line stating the revision, e.g. <!-- fsfe rev 1 -->. This may help you to find out whether the file in your language is on the same state content-wise as the English original.

Thank you for your contribution!

Deployment

The template folder of this repository is symlinked: /var/lib/mailman/templates -> /etc/mailman/mailman-templates-git/templates.

For the custom list templates, these are symlinked as well, for example: /var/lib/mailman/lists/newsletter-en/en -> /etc/mailman/mailman-templates-git/lists/newsletter-all/en. For a newly added language, this can be done by (exmaple for nl (Dutch), so replace for new language code):

for list in /var/lib/mailman/lists/newsletter-*; do 
  ln -s /etc/mailman/mailman-templates-git/lists/newsletter-all/nl $list/nl
done

Custom changes necessary for deployment

Our custom templates require some server-side changes in order to make them work.

Enable CORS

In Apache config for fsfe.org, add

# Allow CORS for fsfe.org domains
SetEnvIf Origin ^(https?://.+\.fsfe\.org(?::\d{1,5})?)$   CORS_ALLOW_ORIGIN=$1
Header append Access-Control-Allow-Origin  %{CORS_ALLOW_ORIGIN}e   env=CORS_ALLOW_ORIGIN
Header merge  Vary "Origin"

Loosen Mailman HTML blocklist

In /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py, add to _badwords = [:

'<link(?! href="https://fsfe.org/.*")',