On Sun, 3 Jan 1999, Ty Sarna wrote:

I seem to recall someone mentioning that they were developing a web-based mail system (something like Hotmail) in Zope. Would someone please refresh my memory? Thanks.

If you're talking about an email-based call tracking system, that was me. We currently use a system I wrote as CGI scripts in Perl. This system includes a web form based mailer (ugly TEXTAREA and all!) which "forges" the outgoing mail to be from a common support address with a call# tag so that return mail is associated with the same call. It's also possible to reply using conventional mail clients. The problems are maintainability (although I haven't changed it for a year now) and the fact that it doesn't handle MIME and is lacking a scalable search function. I also wanted to integrate it better with our customer database. Now that I'm a Python convert, I wanted to write the thing in Python, which lead me to Bobo, which lead me to Zope. Zope initially had zero documentation on the product interface, though, so I got nowhere and put it off. Now I don't think I'm going to get to it for at least a month or two (new release pressures...). If any Zopistas want to take this on I can certainly help with the design - I can give sample screenshots (HTML) from the existing system and describe the overall structure. It's really pretty simple. Of course, jitterbug is also free so you can use that for a model if you want. My system was written slightly earlier and is, of course, Infinitely Better. :-) :-) (I've really only looked at Jitterbug enough to see that it does mostly the same thing...it looks like it also lacks support for MIME and a good search interface.) -- James Strickland Perforce Software