Eric wrote
Zope is really great! I've been demoing it to various folks who need websites, and there's been quite a bit of drooling going on.
Great to hear!
Several of my product ideas, though, need missing functionality. I'd love to be able to deliver mail to the Zope database (for bug trackers and such) and to schedule periodic tasks.
The Z RPC module in the Zope distribution would serve your needs for both of these. With it you can write a Python script with objects that are connected to Zope via HTTP. In the first case, you would create an email alias that feeds the email to your script which connects to Zope. In the second case you would create a cron job that connects to Zope and tickles some URLs. In effect, Z RPC allows you to externally-script Zope using HTTP. --Paul