Email & web discussion groups - best practices?
xurizaemon - June 17, 2008 - 01:52
Drupal (5) is up and running, but how do I set it up as a Google Groups-alike discussion forum?
Features we want:
* Registration through standard Drupal interface - I'd rather not have a secondary place where people can change their passwords, then get confused?
* Give people the option of getting their updates via multiple methods (email, RSS, or web access to forum)?
(I've used listhandler+mailhandler+mailman before, but it introduced too many confusing situations for our users, who might change their email in one place or their password in another.)
Any input / pointers appreciated!
Thanks in advance
I use the Subscriptions
I use the Subscriptions module for a similar thing - it has options to allow users to subscribe to content types so any new things in that content type can be emailed out as it happens (on the next cron job anyway). You could have it so it is on by default if you wish, and using other modules you can optionally hide the tab on the user page to disable deactivating it.
http://drupal.org/project/subscriptions
This covers one aspect of
Thanks for your reply.
This covers one aspect of the functionality I'm seeking, but not the part where people can hit "reply" to the output of the subscriptions module and comment back.
As with Google Groups, I'm aiming to make this forum fully accessible EITHER via email or web. Subscriptions does web to email, but not email to web.
A quick browse through the
A quick browse through the mail catagory of contributed modules, take a look at the following two modules:
http://drupal.org/project/listhandler
http://drupal.org/project/mailhandler
For a 5.x site, you should be good to go. For a 6.x site, you'll have to wait on listhandler module
Listhandler on Drupal 6.x
I'd love someone to give Listhandler (HEAD) http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/listhandler-HEAD.tar.gz a good test on a Drupal 6.x environment and tell me what doesn't work.
Caveat: I know that changing the mailing list prefix in the Admin page won't work. As part of the database clean-up I've moved that to a separate table and haven't updated the code to match, yet.
Or you could always submit a patch to http://drupal.org/node/255731 with the fix ;-).
See you in the issue queue! ;)
philipnet.