Re: [Zope] zope, worldpilot, IMAP, POP...

2000-12-21 Thread Erik Enge
[marc lindahl] | This looks great, but it seems to assume pre-existing individual mail (POP | or IMAP) accounts. I'm stuck on, how to create new email accounts when | creating zope memberships, and keep the email accounts sync'd with the zope | memberships (username and password). Well, I

Re: [Zope] zope, worldpilot, IMAP, POP...

2000-12-21 Thread Morten W. Petersen
[Erik Enge] | Well, I don't think it would be too much hassle to add some | administrative functionality to keep them in sync (albeit, to be 100% | percent sure will hurt a lot - I guess). I'm guessing that Morten is | already working on this. Yup. The way that seems right is to proxy

Re: [Zope] zope, worldpilot, IMAP, POP...

2000-12-21 Thread Erik Enge
[Morten W. Petersen] | Yup. The way that seems right is to proxy user-account creation through | sudo (unix (linux?) only), thoughts / comments ? Well, that probably depends on how you figure the administrator to work. I think I would've tried to abstract the whole notion about «something

Re: [Zope] zope, worldpilot, IMAP, POP...

2000-12-21 Thread marc lindahl
That's why I thought it was a cool idea to use the 'catchall' or dead.letter account - there's no security problems or administration problems. Instead, the 'pain' is managing that stuff inside zope, including parsing through one big mailbox to 'divvy up' the mail - probably by some cron job

Re: [Zope] zope, worldpilot, IMAP, POP...

2000-12-21 Thread Morten W. Petersen
[Erik Enge] | Well, that probably depends on how you figure the administrator to | work. I think I would've tried to abstract the whole notion about | «something under the hood» away from the administrator, and tried to | be clever when I added and delete users within Zope (that is, the code |

Re: [Zope] zope, worldpilot, IMAP, POP...

2000-12-21 Thread Morten W. Petersen
[marc lindahl] | That's why I thought it was a cool idea to use the 'catchall' or dead.letter | account - there's no security problems or administration problems. Instead, | the 'pain' is managing that stuff inside zope, including parsing through one | big mailbox to 'divvy up' the mail -

Re: [Zope] zope, worldpilot, IMAP, POP...

2000-12-21 Thread marc lindahl
...except that assumes the mail server on the same box. Going thru dead.letter means it can be anywhere... the cron script or whatever gets the bulk mail has the username/password for that one account. Make sense? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Morten W. Petersen) If you're thinking of not using

Re: [Zope] zope, worldpilot, IMAP, POP...

2000-12-21 Thread Morten W. Petersen
[marc lindahl] | ...except that assumes the mail server on the same box. Going thru | dead.letter means it can be anywhere... the cron script or whatever gets the | bulk mail has the username/password for that one account. Make sense? Ah, I think I know what you mean.. Do you 1)

Re: [Zope] zope, worldpilot, IMAP, POP...

2000-12-21 Thread marc lindahl
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Morten W. Petersen) 1) Want to be able to retrieve messages to the local box, from for example your ISP. It probably wouldn't be your ISP, unless you had a virtual domain. Because, you'd use the catchall account:

Re: [Zope] zope, worldpilot, IMAP, POP...

2000-12-21 Thread Tony-devel Puglisi
For managing a "catchall" account, also called a drop box, check out the excellent program getmail at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/getmail-2.0/getmail.html [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Morten W. Petersen) 1) Want to be

Re: [Zope] zope, worldpilot, IMAP, POP...

2000-12-21 Thread Jack Ungerleider
I currently have a "parked" domain with DomainDirect (TUCOWS). They supply one POP mail box that can be set up, and mine is, as a catch-all. In addition I can have up to 5 additional forwards of addresses in the domain. Though I only use one address right now, I definatly see some value in

[Zope] zope, worldpilot, IMAP, POP...

2000-12-20 Thread marc lindahl
I've been investigating how to do web-based email for zope users... it seemed like worldpilot was cool (BTW, where is it??) Then I was talking to a friend, who mentioned vaguely something about perl-script that implemented a yahoo or hotmail type system, and it solved the problem of