Re: Member/Usermanagement

Hi Dario,

>I haven't had the time to look closely into ZMailMan yet (won't happen
>until) after christmas, :/), but I am wondering what the plan is wrt User
>and member management.

Well, at the moment we ave a ZMMUserFolder, which can serve as an 
authentication source.

>I would like the user/membership part to be pluggable and present an API, so
>that I for instance could replace it with exUserFolder or similar. I don't
>know if this is planned or if it represents too much work. I am willing to
>start working on it as soon as my current project is finished (1-2 months
>from now), since I myself have lots of uses for ZMailman with a large
>userbase and combining them in zope.

Well, I already planned to talk to Andrew about an integration into the 
exUserFolder. It should be no problem, since the Member API is already 
mapped, and once the ZMMUserFolder is done, it should be even easier.

Regards,
Stephan

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Stephan Richter
CBU - Physics and Chemistry Student
Web2k - Web Design/Development & Technical Project Management