[consulting] Req for (paid) support

[Dan Robinson]

>Dan Robinson <dan at civicactions.com> writes:
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> % have you seen it work badly?  
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> Yes.
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> % What hasn't worked for you?
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> A) The timeframe for messages coming from the site are irratic and so
>    it is not possible to have a meaningful flow of email conversation with it.
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not sure if this is an issue with mail delivery or whether you need to
run cron more frequently - I set mine at 1 min.

> B) The content/format of some of the setups make it so that you may get 
>    announcements by email, but you can not reply reasonably. All you can
>    do is go to the website and use the website. 
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not sure what you mean here.

> C) Some set ups assume that my mail client is a web mail client. Which is 
>    not true. And so they break my client
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again not sure what you are referring to.

> D) the format of messages are often restrictive, so when people
>    use the natural features of the mail clients, they don't translate
>    directly to what the forum supports. 
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this is an mime issue (I think)  - and I believe has been upgraded recently

> E) I have yet to see a seemless interaction where one person used email
>    and the other used the forum for anything but the most minor of 
>    conversations. 
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I believe it is happening on the CivicSpace forum - I use email
exclusively myself - some people use forums exclusively.

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> F) Using mailhandler assumes that I have rights to change the PHP installation
>    configuration of my ISP. This is an assumption that is most often false.
>    And I have not yet seen a mail handler installation which could be done
>    cleanly on a site where I did not have root. 
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>    (But I have not looked at mailhandler for several revs.... )
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hmmm...  I don't think Mailhandler requires any special OS permissions -
but I may be mistaken.

> % > Do you have a recipe that works well? 
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> % There is one here - <http://civicspacelabs.org/home/dgroups-recipe> look
> % down where it talks about mailhandler - they are integrating with sympa
> % - but I've done it with mailman and ezmlm - no difference.
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> thank you. I will study it. I have found that organic groups breaks my
> node permissions by role code. And since node permissions are of high priority
> to me, I have not ever gotten an organic groups solution to work as I want. 
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> but I will ignore that and try to understand the steps to see how clean it can be.
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 I don't believe there is any dependency on OG for this - I just pointed
it out because it should have enough information to get you started at
least.

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