Re: [hypermail] Substitution Cookies

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se_at_hypermail-project.org>
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 23:16:06 +0100 (MET)
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.30.0103072310080.12716-100000_at_pm1.contactor.se>

On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Ron Pero wrote:

> And, I need some help. I want to replicate those nice links in the
> usetable format, but a couple substitution cookies elude me.

IMHO, we lack a whole range of substitution cookies. I also find the whole %[single letter] syntax hostile and user-unfriendly.

(I've skipped a few of your questions since I couldn't answer them. You can either try them out to see how the outcome looks like or wait for someone else to respond.)

> 3. Does someone have an example of header/footer templates that replicate
> the functionality of the usetable=1 of the config file, that you could
> show me?

I doubt that can be done. 'usetable' makes the entire indexes generated differently, which can't be made with template files.

> 4. This kind of thing appears in all my message pages. Is it necessary? Is
> it used by hypermail? Or can I safely leave it out?
> <h1>The subject</h1>
> <!-- received="Thu Mar 1 09:46:48 2001" -->
> <!-- isoreceived="20010301154648" -->
> <!-- sent="Thu, 01 Mar 2001 10:38:24 -0500" -->
> <!-- isosent="20010301153824" -->
> <!-- name="My Name" -->
> <!-- email="me_at_somewhere.COM" -->
> <!-- subject="The subject" -->
> <!-- id="sa9e26bezzz.000_at_mail.somewhere.com" -->

If you want hypermail to be able to understand the pages it has created, those tags must remain as they are used by hypermail when doing incremental updates etc.

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