Good Morning Stan,

Yahoo Groups functions are very good. And my wish is developing the same functionality by Drupal.

I saw that Civic Space offers PHPList inside his applications, but I do no know if PHPList is also a discussion list software. Anyway I think that you must develop it by yourself.

There is a Drupal module called "Ezmlm". Ezmlm is a very flexible OS discussion and newsletter software based on Qmail. What I know is that you use for all mailing list software specific server administration rights. Ezmlm seems to be more flexible and stronger than Mailman. Some month before I found out that Listsoft offers a free version of their mailing list software which is not open source but from a company with many experiences in this field. But I think that each mailing list software is not an easy approach for installation.

With all the link applications, forums and download features of Drupal it seems to be very easy to develop semilar applications like Yahoo Groups (it might be possible that you can do it much more better).

Kind Regards,

Albrecht

----- Original Message ----- From: "Stan" stangrad-drupal@stanfordalumni.org To: drupal-support@drupal.org Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 3:56 AM Subject: [drupal-support] can drupal do yahoo groups?

I have a couple of phpbb forums, and would like people to have the ability to post to these forums via e-mail and receive forum messages via e-mail if they so choose. In other words, I'm looking for "Yahoo Groups"-like functionality.

Can Drupal do this?

I'm considering installing mailman and mail2forum which, combined with the phpbb I already have installed, is supposed to do this.

I've also looked into mailgust, which might work, but isn't open source.

Is there a good/popular solution here? Suggestions? Opinions?

Is there another open-source product that does this? (combining separate apps to perform a larger task is very Unix-y, but phpbb and mailman are both fairly complex, so a single app that does both might be more useful).

I'm not married to phpbb-- my forums are small + I could easily transfer them to drupal or another app. For example, I've heard phorum has mailing list support built-in, though it doesn't quite seem to do what I want.

I've seen at least a couple of discussion threads that say "It's hard to believe, but no such open-source product exists", but I don't believe them

:)

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