[NGO] Re: mailing list integration - folks are working on Sympa + Drupal integration

[Rocky Burt]

On Wed, 2006-11-10 at 19:56 -0700, Jon Stahl wrote:
> Folks intersted in CMS + Mailing list integration might find it
> interesting to note that our peers in Drupal-land are working on
> integrating Drupal with Sympa.
> 
> http://listes.cru.fr/sympa/arc/sympa-dev/2006-09/msg00032.html
> 
> http://listes.cru.fr/sympa/arc/sympa-dev/2006-10/msg00002.html
> 
> http://wikis.bellanet.org/floss-dgroups/index.php/Technical_Plan
> 
> http://wikis.bellanet.org/floss-dgroups/index.php/Main_Page
> 
> For those of you not already familiar with Sympa, it is a solid,
> battle-tested-at-scale email discussion list server.  It's Perl + MySQL.
> But most significantly, it has a SOAP interface, which is what makes
> cross-platform integration possible.  We have run Sympa here at
> ONE/Northwest for over five years now, serving over 180,000 users with
> 1000+ lists.  It's good stuf.  
> 
> Thought it might be interesting for those who are pondering these issues
> to have on their radar screen.  The issues and use-cases they are
> grappling with are quite similar to ours.

I didn't realize having SOAP integration for mailing list software was a
useful feature.  If it truly is (and I'd like to hear more use cases)
then it shouldn't be hard to expose the listen (the plone mailing list
thing by Alec M) api via SOAP.

- Rocky

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Rocky Burt
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