Fwd: Re: A Problem

>From: John Morton <[email protected]>
>Organization: E Services Ltd.
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [ZMailman] A Problem
>Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 12:12:22 +1300
>X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1]
>
> >I looked into the Mailman code in some more detail and everything should be
> >doable, except one thing: The wrapper (the binary the receives the original
> >mail) calls a Python script that then loads the Mailing List. But how in
> >the world are we going to get the script tap into the Zope instance.
>
>I wondered when you where going to spot that :-)
>
> > 3. use ZEO -- I do not know whether this will work.
>
>I've thought about doing this recently, but haven't had the time to fully
>research and try it. My approach would be something like this:
>
>   Replace Mailman's existing storage with Standalone ZODB (which is
>   moments away from a 1.0 release I gather). Standard mailman could use
>   a regular FileStorage ZODB, or could just as easily use ClientStorage with
>   the toggle of a configuration option, and connect to a ZEO server. This 
> has
>   quite a few nice consequences:
>
>         - Separation of the email, web and storage components of mailman
>         across servers becomes straight forward.
>
>         - There's another way around all those NFS locking nasties; don't 
> do
>         that, connect to a ZEO server instead.
>
>         - The storage backend used by ZEO is fairly flexible - there already
>         exists a BerkleyDB storage, and I think there's one for Oracle, 
> so SQL
>         database integration is possible.
>
>          - ...but you don't need a ZEO server if you don't want one.
>
>   However, I believe the right way (and perhaps the only way) to allow two
>   applications to have write access to the same store is to use ZEO, so
>   zmailman would use this approach and either access the mailman 
> configuration
>   ZODB from within some product, or mount the mailman ZODB directly into
>   zope's ZODB, using [mount client].
>
>This is all rather theoretical, though - I haven't tried it out, but it seems
>like the best place to start.
>
>John

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