Disclaimer: I mean no offense to anyone who has developed Drupal-mailing-list-related modules or software before. It's entirely possible that some patch or module would have done everything I needed. Please correct me if so! On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 04:36:47PM +0200, zeljko blace wrote:
Is there any interest in Dev community to develop connections to any well known mailing-list software (especialy those that have nice web archive interface like Mailman)?
I don't know that I am "in the dev community" but I have done some preliminary Drupal + Mailman integration. If I could choose again, I would instead avoid the Mailman abstraction layer and implement my own list delivery system. I think it likely that I wrote more code and introduced more potential points of failure with the Mailman solution than I would have otherwise. That said, the mailing list system I did this for had the most specific set of requirements I have ever heard of. I ended up having to disable virtually every Mailman feature which was not directly related to delivering messages and catching bounces. I don't have a great deal of experience with other MLMs, but I would imagine the situation would be very similar. So, in conclusion, if you're interested in having a traditional email list with simple bits of integration (ie. new Drupal users are subscribed if they opt-in), integrating with an MLM might make a lot of sense. On the other hand, if you just need a means of delivering bulk messages to Drupal users, consider doing it all natively in PHP. (is that what og2list does? help them out if so!) HTH, -- Keegan Quinn <keegan@thebasement.org> http://keegan.sniz.org q="'" qq='echo q=\"$q\" qq=$q$qq$q \&\& eval \$qq' && eval $qq