Bill/Mick, Thanks for the feedback. I guessed as much from what I read and your comments. Yes I was reaching to see what could be done beyond what it's designed for. Considering the work involved, a Listserver is much better.
Thanks! Regards, Frank Rettig ----- Original Message ---- From: Mick Badran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 3, 2007 7:49:38 PM Subject: RE: [OzMOSS] Creating a list serve with SharePoint 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) Training & Integration Specialist | Microsoft Readiness Instructor BreezeTraining | mb: + 61 404 842 833 | fx: +61 2 3962 4898 IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://blogs.breezetraining.com.au/mickb -----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 ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. 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