Hi Frank, (Bill I laughed at the 'to be Frank....')
Here's a great place to start.....
http://www.stovereffect.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=19
(talks about email enabling a list - discussion list would be ideal to start
with)
We can set these lists to accept emails from people who aren't 'members' (i.e.
no account in AD/SAM/Forms based auth required). This is important from a low
maintenance security implementation.(The infrastructure guys are loving you
again :-)
I agree with Bill that Sharepoint does 70-80% of what the polished listservers
do out there - but you get the centralised content/discussion threads/knowledge
+ it's searchable. Big one.
While Alerts on lists may seem appealing (and for most cases they're on the
money!) - the Alert will go to a user with a SID/Account on the site. (There's
a SPSite.AllUsers collection that drives the alerts) - this means all 'members'
need to have an individual acct to the site/list - which is painful(for what we
want).
I wouldn't use Alerts for this purpose.
If you look at your current list server functionality - what set of
functionality do you use/require?
Ok - here's a simple way to do add functionality you need
1. Set the Discussion List up and configure to accept incoming email (stacks of
articles around for this).
WSS/MOSS just needs to poll a SMTP Drop directory to process the incoming email.
2. Create an EventHandler (this is a developer step Frank - you may be one, or
know one) to process the incoming email to the list.
- the *standard* functionality of sending an email and having it appear
on the list is *what Sharepoint does for you*
- you need to handle custom cases of 'join list', 'remove list' request
- add and remove from the 'mail list'
- you need to have a record of email addresses that are on the list, so
an email can be sent to the group.
(let's say it's a DL group within Sharepoint/Exchange/....)
3. Create one user and assign the DL as the email address. E.g. FrankList
([EMAIL PROTECTED] = DL)
+ create an Alert for that user. Boom! You're done.
How long will this take - 1 day or so.
HTH,
Mick Badran (MVP - BizTalk)
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Williamson
Sent: Thursday, 4 October 2007 9:02 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [OzMOSS] Creating a list serve with SharePoint
On 10/4/07, Frank Rettig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am familiar with SharePoint and have worked a bit with it. I am curious
> if this sites Listserver is actually SharePoint itself? I have read some
> articles on how to make DL's email enabled, but want to know if it can be
> done to replace an actual Listserve? I know someone that wants to replace
> their Lyris Listserve and was thinking that SharePoint/MOSS could fit the
> bill. As with most Listservers and this site, if SharePoint could allow
> internal and external users to subscribe, I would appreciate being directed
> if SharePoint can be used also to replace a ListServe.
To be Frank with you, Sharepoint would make a VERY poor listserver.
This listserver is "powered by http://mailenable.com/";, which from
reading seems to be an entire email server solution.
You COULD set up a listserver in Sharepoint by:
-email enabling a document library
-writing your own event handler that either reads users from a
sharepoint group, or from a list, and copies anything sent to all
those users
-has a custom workflow to allow for "verified" list signups
but you're REALLY reaching there.
Sharepoint would make an alright ARCHIVE (manually subscribe a
document library email address to the list so that it gets a copy of
all messages), but even then it's a bit of a shoehorn.
Depending on your needs, if non-professionally related (a
user/interest group) I reccomend google groups.
You may also want to look into community server. It's like a
"sharepoint lite" (focused on communities, blogs, etc) and has an
email server module you can purchase quite cheaply.
--Bill Williamson
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