Re: Development Plan

[email protected] (Barry A. Warsaw) Tue, 4 Dec 2001 16:33:48 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.zope.zmailman
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> "JW" == Joachim Werner <[email protected]> writes:

    JW> - I want to use ZMailman to handle sending mails to groups
    JW> that are defined in Zope. E.g. we have a Zope-based extranet
    JW> for a students organization, and they want to maintain mailing
    JW> list that are automatically in synch with their user
    JW> database. These mailing lists/groups are rather stable, but it
    JW> is important that they don't have to maintain two lists.

Doable in MM2.1.

    JW> - It should be possible to create new objects in Zope (e.g. a
    JW> project like in SourceForge) and automatically get a mailing
    JW> list for it

Doable in MM2.1

    JW> - One very cool thing would be if ZMailman also could handle
    JW> sending mails to lists that are temporary, e.g. results of a
    JW> database query.

Doable in MM2.1 (sort of).  The list must exist, but it can be a
"virtual" list where you specify exactly the recipient list that you
want to use, instead of the list's normal recipients.

-Barry