Re: [Evolution] Disable Digests? [was: evolution-list Digest, Vol 156, Issue 61]

[Ralf Mardorf <silver bullet zoho com>]

On Sat, 2018-07-28 at 14:05 +0100, Dominic Knight wrote:
> On Sat, 2018-07-28 at 12:34 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > To continue: I am a moderator of this list (there are three of us),
> > and
> > think I know how to post an administrative advisory, thanks.
>
> Considering what this subject is about, possibly not!? (sorry POC I
> just got triggered by this one)
>
> If you disable cron/senddigests, no periodic digests will be sent for
> any list. So digest users will no longer get any mails at all unless
> you go into the users settings and manually change them to non-digest
> mode.
>
> I think the following possibly makes sense, but you never know it's
> been a while since I ran any lists:-
> You could,set the list in question to
>
> digest_send_periodic = No
>
> To turn off normal digest mode
>
> Copy cron/senddigests to cron/senddigests2 or whatever name you like
> and make sure the copy is chmod +x
>
> Change line in the copy from
>
> if mlist.digest_send_periodic:
>
> to
>
> if True:
>
> Then add a separate crontab entry to run
> cron/senddigests2 -l the_special_listname
>
> For those who desperately need digest mode (?)
>
> Then set replies to that list digest mode to be held for moderation,
> edited by a moderator before being sent to the real list or returned to
> sender for reformatting.
>
> User settings may still be in bin/withlist 
>
> You can also set
> convert_html_to_plaintext: yes
>
> to get around one of your other bugbears

I'm not a moderator and without questioning your hints, I suspect that a
moderator would welcome links to mailman pages ;).