On 29/06/2006, at 7:12 PM, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 13:45 +1000, Ian Holsman wrote: >> anyone in django land integrated mailing lists with django ? > > I'm tempted to ask (quietly, and just to myself) "how hard could it > be?" > Then I looked at the sender and realised maybe you've done the basic > research and there are hidden shoals. > well.. it depends on what you are after from a mailing list. if you are looking for a basic join/push model you still have some issues like: - bounce management - interfacing with SMTP - subscribe/unsubscribe via SMTP - forms to take user preferences to what they are interested in - template generation / basic HTML/Text push more advanced stuff - targeted stats (user X clicked on link Y in the email) - making a template and then adding in customizations (like unique links, names to do the stats, ads) - reporting - doing things like PowerMTA does like queue management and throttling (eg only send 50 emails/hour to hotmail) > So, broadly, what are you trying to do and where are the difficulties? i haven't tried to do it, I'm just trying to avoid doing it ;-0 I was trolling the list to see if someone has done this before (OSS) so I could grab theirs ;-) > > Malcolm > regards Ian > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
