Keegan Quinn wrote:
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.
So did I. Together with Matt Westgate in 2003, I think.
If I could choose again, I would instead avoid the Mailman abstraction layer and implement my own list delivery system.
We came to that conclusion as well. This is also part of the reason for the existence of og2list.
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.
Depends on the degree of integration you want to have. You can go easy and offer a subscription box that sends a "subscribe me" mail to the MLM and use this MLM for all other activities. This does not offer any Drupal integration, though. If you want Drupal integration then there are a couple of ways to do better (one being a mailman integration with mysql) but these things also have a lot of drawbacks.
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!)
No, og2list aims to be a full MLM. Currently implemented is: - receive news posted to Drupal through the web interface by email - answer to these news through email, they will show up on the web interface - subscribe and unsubscribe through Drupal to do: - subscribe and unsubscribe by mail If you look for a newsletter module, look at simplenews. Og2list integrates directly with the MTA in order to achieve its goals, so I isn't usable for everybody. Cheers, Gerhard