By savageanne on

I'm looking to add discussion groups to my (fledgling) drupal site. Ideally something that allows users to email a single email address and have it go to everyone, with a copy made in an archive. The archive would need to be password protected ... only subscribers to the list should see the archives.

Any pointers? Can organic groups do something like this?

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scottatdrake commented

What you are talking about sounds like the open source mailing list management program called Mailman. However, the organic groups can do what you need. Groups can be protected so that only members have access. You can also set up email notification to let people know when new things are posted. Also, look into Mailhandler and Listmanager modules for posting by email.

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savageanne commented

Yes, you definitely understand what I am trying to do. I could use Mailman or dadamail or something to do the job, but I'd like to have a drupal solution, since I know we're going to want to add on functionality and I'd like to have a single set of users for both mailing lists and the rest of of the functionality without having to synch the mailing list users list with the main site users list.

I've been reading up more on OG and it seems to have a pretty healthy notification process that would take care of sending emails to everyone. Now the question is, could I use mailhandler so that folks could email (and reply to those OG notifications) to contribute to the site.

This seems like exactly what Yahoo/Google groups does, so I would have thought OG would be able to do it without so much effort, but I'm not finding any documentation to support that.

Any further guidance would be much appreciated.