[Zope] any more information on using UserDB anywhere?

[Michel Pelletier]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jens Vagelpohl [mailto:tommymi@concentric.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 1:29 PM
> To: Michel Pelletier
> Cc: 'Tony McDonald'; Zope List
> Subject: RE: [Zope] any more information on using UserDB anywhere?
> 
> 
> While we're on the subject of unsupported products and what's for 
> download on the website: i went through the stuff under "contributed 
> software" a couple days ago and saw some really neat stuff, but it 
> seems that development just stopped mid-way and of course there never 
> is any indication of conflicts with Zope 2.0. one product i want to 
> mention in this regard is NotMail, which i would love to put 
> on my server.
> 

I started writing NotMail before working at DC, before Zope was even
Open Sourced, and finished a 'provisional' 1.10.x version as a proof of
concept to DC that I could write products and to familiarize myself with
writing products better.

It is true, I have not had time to keep NotMail in line with Zope.  My
time has been consumed with Zope itself and our paying customers.  There
isn't much chance of me being able to look too deeply at NotMail unless
we get a paying customer whose is willing to pay for me to polish it and
update it to Zope 2.

I would *love* for someone to take over NotMail.  It is an extremely
cool Zope product, fairly well written and documented in code, and not
needing much polish to become a super cool thing.  In fact, I bet there
are several people on this list qualified enough to finish it off with
reasonable effort.

> if any of the authors who were so nice as to make them available for 
> all of us could make a quick statement as to their products' Zope 2.0 
> compliance and maybe add if the product is still being developed or 
> not?
> 

Ok.  The big thing about NotMail and Zope 2.0 are, 1) getting the class
permissions registered correctly, 2) fixing any bugs in my IMAP parsing
code, 3) verifying that the Python imaplib is threadsafe (of which I
have doubts), 4) greatly improving the user interface so that it looks
like all those other cool web mailers on the surface, and 5) adding some
more features, like better message managment (cut/copy/paste etc..) and
more IMAPAdapter API calls to support these features.

-Michel

> that would be a great help i think :)
> 
> Jens
> 
> 
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
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> On 7/27/99, 1:00:58 PM, Michel Pelletier <michel@digicool.com> wrote 
> regarding RE: [Zope] any more information on using UserDB anywhere?:
> 
> 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Tony McDonald [mailto:tony.mcdonald@ncl.ac.uk]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 12:51 PM
> > > To: Zope List
> > > Subject: [Zope] any more information on using UserDB anywhere?
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > > Is there any more info on using UserDB to do cookie authentication
> > > available anywhere (I've tried the source, there's too 
> much Zope Zen
> > > going on there for me). I want to be able to have anything up to
> > > 12,000 users authenticated and I get the impression that 
> there will
> > > be a user icon made for each of them in the acl_users folder.
> > >
> > > Specifically, I don't seem to be able to logout (go back 
> to being an
> > > anonymous user), and I'd like to embed the authentication 
> form into
> > > my (currently non-authenticated) output if possible.
> > >
> 
> > There is probably a bug in the logout code.  I seem to 
> remember there
> > being some sort of Y2K issue with cookies and UserDB too, 
> but someone
> > might have fixed it, but I don't know if it got checked in, and I 
> doubt
> > it got updated on the website.
> 
> > Ok, so *calling all UserDB Users* lets get this UserDB 
> thing resolved
> > down to one bugfixed version of the software.  This really 
> needs to be 
> a
> > community effort, since it's an unsupported product.
> 
> > Has anyone seen fixed the bug Tony is seeing?  If we get this 
> resolved,
> > I'll put the bug fixed version on the website ASAP.
> 
> > -Michel
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