Chris Withers wrote:
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I like these ideas a lot, but I'd prefer to see the low-level email integration done seperately, so it can be used for other things.
I don't quite see why MailHost isn't "low level integration"
My dream would be for Zope to pipe an email address to a specific object/method without the need for any external mail servers or scripts...
Making Zope an MTA seems like a lot of extra work. Now, Zope as an IMAP server I could get my head around...
ZMailman could then very easily be built on top of this. However, if ZMailman is built, I suspect it'd be difficult to use the core functionality to do something else. What is the email equivalent of Medusa? And can we 'borrow' it in the same way?
Well... I think that it's probably the shortest route to a functioning zope archive to use mailman- already written in python, and modular enough that we should be able to take it one step at a time. Note that no mailing list software I know of tries to be an MTA. With sooo many different implementation issues, making zope an MTA would be a big challenge, IMNSHO. Of course, if it were to show up, I don't think I'd complain. ~ethan Zopista Community Liason