Re: [Ilohamail-devel] Drupal integration

[Ryo C. <ry...@il...>]

I'll admit that IlohaMail is a nightmare when it comes to integrating
with other CMS applications.  I'm planning creating a session library
to make authentication/session instantiation possible without user
interaction (any interest in sponsoring that feature?) which should
help, when I actually get around to doing it...

As for going frame-less, I don't think anyone's done it yet.  I don't
think it's impossible, although all the JavaScript stuff in 0.9 will
certainly break, possibly beyond repair.  Of course, it'll still work
if Javascrpt usage is set to low, so maybe that's not too much of an
issue.

Making IlohaMail use Drupal's CSS might be a problem as well.  You might
be better of trying to get Dupal to load both its CSS and IlohaMail's
CSS, and try and create an IlohaMail theme that closely resembles the
look you want.

Anyway, those are some preliminary thoughts...

Ryo

On 12/31/2004, "Eric Drechsel" <ed...@pi...> wrote:

>I'm about to begin integrating IlohaMail with our portal website (
>http://www.pioneer-net.com ), which runs drupal. I have goals here which
>may be mutually incompatible:
>
>1. Smooth integration with drupal
>2. Minimal changes to IM, most code in a drupal wrapper module
>
>I'm hoping that some experienced IM devs can pick apart my (very
>preliminary, off the top of my head, based on almost no experience) plan.
>
>
>Ideally this would involve converting the IM to use drupal's theme
>engine. This would be alot of work, however, and would mangle IM beyond
>all recognition, stranding me update-wise. I would settle instead for
>converting the IM html to use drupal's CSS. This will result in a
>fairly simple diff that I can apply to subsequent IM releases.
>
>Drupal is frameless, so I will probably want to eliminate radar.php. Will
>this involve significant changes throughout the code?
>
>For new mail notification and login management, I'll create an IM drupal
>block. Login info will be stored in a table in the drupal DB.
>
>IM's main window will be included by drupal. I haven't ever done
>anything like this before, and I wonder whether there might be conflict
>between globals or similar.
>
>Links to IM files will be mangled via mod_rewrite to point to the
>corresponding drupal container url, which will in turn import the
>appropriate IM file.
>
>IMAP folders will be displayed as a drupal block whenever the user is in
>the IM area. We are currently running POP3 because mail is stored in
>Berkeley mbox format, but before the new webmail goes live I will
>convert to maildir/IMAP.
>
>Suggestions, existing implementations, etc?  If there is something that
>needs to be done architecturally to IM which would make this easier, I
>would love to be able to actually contribute code.
>
>TIA
>Eric Drechsel
>Pioneer-Net
>
>
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