I like the idea of integrating Sympa, especially if I can't get the PHPList module working. As I mentioned, we're already using Mailman, but that's only useful for email list management. We also have a separate list of member info, some with email addresses, some without, that we want to merge with the mailing list into a single list. The idea is that we have one system that handles all member info, allows us to send email to the email addresses, send snailmail to those without email addresses, manages the notices we post on the website, and allows the member list to be managed via the website (including allowing people to manage their own ID/email address), so that we can delegate some of those tasks to various people. Drupal with the massmailer, dba, and events modules seems to fit the bill if I can get it all working.
As for the number of users, the mailing list has about 1300, while the other member db has about 3000 entries. There's probably some overlap between them but I have no idea how much.
I think we could contribute a bit to the bounty funding, too.
Petre
Gerhard Killesreiter wrote:
On Mon, 30 May 2005, Petre Scheie wrote:
We're already using Mailman. It's great as a standalone mailer, but I'm> trying to find something that integrates with a CMS. PHPList sounded> ideal because we use the mailer just to send out meeting notices to> members of our group, rather than as a means for everyone to send> messages to everyone. And PHPList describes itself as more of a> broadcast kind of tool.
If you just need to send mail to a (probably small) number of users youcan just use the PHP mail() function. No need for massmailingcapabilities. You could even let Drupal send mail to the mailman mailinglist. Cheers, Gerhard -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]