[Zope] listservs, forums and Zope...

[Danny William Adair]

Did you see the code Ken Manheimer posted last year? There might be very
useful stuff in there...

On July 6, 2000, Ken Manheimer wrote:
>>> ...
>>> One of the first things zope exercises i did when learning zope, not
tool
>>> long after coming to digital creations, was create a product that hooked
>>> up with the Mailman installation on zope.org.  (One of the last things i
>>> did at my prior job, at CNRI, was to resurrect and revitalize the
>>> prototype Mailman, for use as the maillist manager on python.org.)
>>>
>>> I moved on to other things, and the MMRoster product may be way out of
>>> date - i don't even know if the mailman interfaces have changed from
>>> underneath, and i *know* that the zope ones have - but the product still
>>> may offer some useful clues about one way to hook up with mailman.  I
just
>>> uploaded a tarball of it to my members folder - see
>>>
>>>   http://www.zope.org/Members/klm/MailmanStuff/MMRoster.tar.gz
>>>
>>> (I know ethan is interested in this topic, and barry warsaw, mailman's
>>> current maintainer and my old colleague/buddy, has also expressed
>>> interest, so i'm cc'ing them.)
>>>
>>> All this said, i'm spread too thin at the moment to be able to *do* much
>>> more than watch, maybe chime in, if stuff happens...
>>>
>>> ...

hth a little,
Danny


>>> -----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
>>> Von: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]Im Auftrag von Joel
>>> Burton
>>> Gesendet: Freitag, 11. Mai 2001 07.03
>>> An: Larry Prikockis
>>> Cc: 'zope@zope.org'
>>> Betreff: Re: [Zope] listservs, forums and Zope...
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, 10 May 2001, Larry Prikockis wrote:
>>>
>>> > Hi...
>>> >   I'm wondering if anyone has done anything along the lines
>>> of creating an
>>> > interface between an email list product such as listserv or
>>> majordomo and
>>> > Zope...  I'm setting up a small intranet site using Zope and trying to
>>> > figure out if there's an easy way to integrate our existing
>>> majordomo lists
>>> > with the new Zope site.
>>> >
>>> > If one of the Zope forum products had an option for email
>>> notification, that
>>> > would go a long way towards solving the problem-- but it
>>> doesn't seem like
>>> > any provide this function at present.   Alternatively, if there were a
>>> > product that could accept an email message and create a
>>> message archive (ala
>>> > hypermail), that would be great too... I'm not yet familiar
>>> with Zope and
>>> > python to create something like this myself easily, but it
>>> seems to be a
>>> > fairly simple thing.
>>>
>>> We use mailman, which is, IMHO, much easier to administer than
>>> majordomo,
>>> and much less expensive than Listserv.
>>>
>>> Mailman isn't a Zope product per se, but it is programmed in python, and
>>> it's stuff is stored in python marshalled data, so it's fairly
>>> easy to get
>>> at.
>>>
>>> If I can offer specific help on places you're stuck, let me know.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Joel Burton   <jburton@scw.org>
>>> Director of Information Systems, Support Center of Washington
>>>
>>>
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