[development] Re: [consulting] Req for (paid) support

[Bèr Kessels]

Can we please take this discussion to development at drupal.org. 

Thanks

Op zondag 25 december 2005 02:19, schreef John Sechrest:
> Dan Robinson <dan at civicactions.com> writes:
>
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>  % have you seen it work badly?
>
>  Yes.
>
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>  % What hasn't worked for you?
>
>  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.
>
>  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.
>
>  C) Some set ups assume that my mail client is a web mail client. Which is
>     not true. And so they break my client
>
>  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.
>
>  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.
>
>
>  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.
>
>     (But I have not looked at mailhandler for several revs.... )
>
>  % > Do you have a recipe that works well?
>
>  % 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.
>
>
>  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.
>
>  but I will ignore that and try to understand the steps to see how clean it
> can be.
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