[Zope] Zope-mail gateway

[Andrew M. Kuchling]

Jay, Dylan writes:
>I'm not really looking for a way of implementing this now. What I'm trying
>to say is that I think there would be a need for a closer intergration of
>mail and web and zope is a perfect candidate. At the moment email processing

Yes, this would be an *excellent* idea, and would be a natural
component used to implement bug-tracking systems, group memories,
customer service response systems, and so forth.  Zope's a powerful
platform, and it makes sense to tie it into as many things as
possible, so you have a unified means of accessing resources.  For
similar reasons, I really like Ty Sarna's idea of uploading data from
a Pilot directly into a Zope database, and then writing Zope methods
that would do things with it.

As someone once said, "It is correspondingly argued that the
right way to build reliable systems is to put all your eggs in one
basket, after making sure that you've built a really *good* basket."
(http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/airplane-rule.html).
Zope is a pretty decent basket now, and it'll get better in the future.

Someone should start a list of potential Zope projects and components, 
to be implemented when free time is available. :)

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A.M. Kuchling			http://starship.python.net/crew/amk/