[Zope] Zope as a mail list server

[Jay, Dylan]

Comments in the press release for "Zope portal" (whatever that is) seems to
indicate that mailing list type functionality might be available from inside
zope. Or at least the web archive part of a mail list. Is this true?

My current situation is as follows. I have a zope website using an odbc
database for a user base of around 500 or so users. I want to support both
discussion lists and annoucement style lists for my users. I want to be able
to view, search and submit mails from inside my zope website. I want users
to manage their subscription from both the website and from traditional
listserv like mail commands. I want to be able to store the user lists in
flexible way in my user database. I preferably want some flexibility on how
I store the archived messages.

Its seems to me that all the list servers I'm looking at suffer from two
problems. One is lack of flexibility on the backend data storage. Another is
their intergration with existing web pages. Zope seems ideally placed to
bridge this gap. Is this planned? If so perhaps rather than hack togeather
some connection between an existing list server I should wait for the zope
version.