Hi All,
New to drupal. I'm using 6.x and I would like to be able to add email archives into my drupal site and have them accessible for viewing/searching according to rules set by content_access. The email archives will need to have new emails added to them as well as a large backlog to be imported.
What is the easiest way to achieve this ??
I've done quite a lot of googling on the subject but I can't find the right sequence of keywords to give me a decent hit :-)
Any help appreciated
Cheers Geoff
Quoting Geoff O'Callaghan geoffocallaghan@gmail.com:
Hi All,
New to drupal. I'm using 6.x and I would like to be able to add email archives into my drupal site and have them accessible for viewing/searching according to rules set by content_access. The email archives will need to have new emails added to them as well as a large backlog to be imported.
What is the easiest way to achieve this ??
I've done quite a lot of googling on the subject but I can't find the right sequence of keywords to give me a decent hit :-)
mailhandler and listhandler spring to mind as suitable modules. I would use forums to place the archived email and then limit access to the forums as required.
This setup is ideal if you want to archive messages from the implementation date onwards. To archive previous messages you would have to find a way to re-send them to the special mailbox you create as part of setting up Mailhandler/Listhandler.
How to setup Mailhandler/Listhandler like this, see the documentation at http://drupal.org/node/40777 . Please also check the README in the Listhandler module.
Other mail related modules can be found at the link: http://drupal.org/project/modules?filters=tid:66&solrsort=sort_title%20a...
Regards.
Phil L.
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@ To archive previous messages you would have to find a way to re-send them to the special mailbox you create as part of setting up Mailhandler/Listhandler.
We did the 're-sending' recently just by using IMAP. So, you load them in your (Thunderbird/Kontakt) client in 1 mailaccount, then create a second mailaccount that points to your new server where you want to import from. Drag the mails over to the new mailaccount, and synchronize. IMAP handles the uploading of the original emails.
What gave us a lot of trouble was the fact that all senders of emails need to have an account *before* you import the emails. There is no "if this sender does not exist, then create the user" or "If the sender does not exist, then post as Anonymous" setting, AFAIK.
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On Saturday 18 July 2009 13:50:51 philip@philipnet.com wrote:
To archive previous messages you would have to find a way to re-send them to the special mailbox you create as part of setting up Mailhandler/Listhandler.
On Sat, 2009-07-18 at 14:14 +0300, Reinier Battenberg wrote:
@ To archive previous messages you would have to find a way to re-send them to the special mailbox you create as part of setting up Mailhandler/Listhandler.
We did the 're-sending' recently just by using IMAP. So, you load them in your (Thunderbird/Kontakt) client in 1 mailaccount, then create a second mailaccount that points to your new server where you want to import from. Drag the mails over to the new mailaccount, and synchronize. IMAP handles the uploading of the original emails.
What gave us a lot of trouble was the fact that all senders of emails need to have an account *before* you import the emails. There is no "if this sender does not exist, then create the user" or "If the sender does not exist, then post as Anonymous" setting, AFAIK.
Thanks for the heads up. I tweaked the code to create nodes with a specific 'unknown' user account when the email address wasn't registered. Probably should submit a patch to add the functionality, seems that most people would run into this problem - haven't thought through all the ramifications of doing it this way yet ;-)
Cheers Geoff
On Sat, 2009-07-18 at 11:50 +0100, philip@philipnet.com wrote:
Quoting Geoff O'Callaghan geoffocallaghan@gmail.com:
Hi All,
New to drupal. I'm using 6.x and I would like to be able to add email archives into my drupal site and have them accessible for viewing/searching according to rules set by content_access. The email archives will need to have new emails added to them as well as a large backlog to be imported.
What is the easiest way to achieve this ??
I've done quite a lot of googling on the subject but I can't find the right sequence of keywords to give me a decent hit :-)
mailhandler and listhandler spring to mind as suitable modules. I would use forums to place the archived email and then limit access to the forums as required.
This setup is ideal if you want to archive messages from the implementation date onwards. To archive previous messages you would have to find a way to re-send them to the special mailbox you create as part of setting up Mailhandler/Listhandler.
How to setup Mailhandler/Listhandler like this, see the documentation at http://drupal.org/node/40777 . Please also check the README in the Listhandler module.
Other mail related modules can be found at the link: http://drupal.org/project/modules?filters=tid:66&solrsort=sort_title%20a...
Hi thanks for that. I set it up and it in 'general' works. I'll also need to see if I can integrate it mailsave as i'd like to be able to attach attachments to the nodes.
Thanks for the pointers
Cheers Geoff
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Geoff O'Callaghan -
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Reinier Battenberg