On 29 Sep 99, at 23:35, chas wrote:
Now, webmail can be just an interface for IMAP and I can simply port all my scripts to zope using DTML methods and documents, mixed with an external method or two. But this won't make a great foundation for groupware (which is the reason I'm willing to get the ball rolling on this) - so I figure most of you would want some form of zclasses or object paradigm applying to this, right ? I'm also thinking of how Notes/Domino use mail.
So, any ideas/requests ?
It would be handy if you had Zclass's that could display any RFC822 "style" message, be it an email message or a newsgroup posting downloaded via NNTP. It should be able to handle attachments. Add another Zclass for creating messages (adding attachments). The backend could be IMAP, or a ZODB based message store or NNTP or whatever.
Which brings me finally (see i wasn't just being crass) to the question and point : for Zope to be used in groupware (or in the 'mailing list archiver'), it needs to integrate with email seemlessly - as in, mail can be sent to the server (not to a person) for agents to handle. So, what's the best method of making this happen ? Send to a traditional email address (eg. using qmail or sendmail on the server) then pipe to a python script which then does what ? seems a bit yukky. [/snip]
This would be good. I think at the moment the easiest way to get started with this is to use Zclient to "post" your email message into Zope. I'd like to see a "micro-news-server", email archive, mailing list manager (mailman) all rolled together. Often you'd like to host a mailing list, but some folks want to read it via newsreader, some want it online via a web interface, others want mailing list (digested or not) This is distinct from reading IMAP mailboxes and composing messages via the web, but could be rolled together into a very nice package. Brad Clements, bkc@murkworks.com (315)268-1000 http://www.murkworks.com (315)268-9812 Fax netmeeting: ils://ils.murkworks.com ICQ: 14856937