Forum OpenACS Development: Response to Package Idea

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6: Response to Package Idea (response to 1)
Posted by Mat Kovach on
Tom right now ( and why I wanted to post ) was I'm not sure as to the next step.  The possibilities are there.  qmail and vpopmail have easily expanded interfaces and either using exec or compiled code is a possibility.

I guess what I was hoping for was some of the more knowledge ACS'ers would have thoughts, ideas, etc. about what would be best for OpenACS.  If we used AOLserver api's and TCL I think we could create abstract things a little better.

Some like:

oacs_emaildomain_add
oacs_emaildomain_add_user
oacs_emaildomain_delete

etc.

Have the underlying code do something like:

if emailserver type = vpopmail { /home/vpopmail...)
                    = postfix { do this }

But be able to have one basic data model.  This would be a bit more of a project but might be better all the way around.  While I personally like qmail, some people don't and I'd love to give people a choice.

It may also mean exporting everything using LDAP, who knows.

As I said right now I'm still in the idea stage and hoping for input :)