[Zope] Web mail & web chat

[Marc Burgauer]

Hi

I am looking for a Zope-based interface to offer web mail and real-time chat
for a potential customer who intends to run a public web-based service.

The average user will not be highly computer literate. (E.g. We expect many
not even to have an e-mail account.)


Web Mail
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The only "serious" product I have found is:

http://www.zope.org/Members/maraf/WebMail

It requires an IMAP server, currently we're still only doing POP3. Also this
product is in French, it seems.

- If anybody is using this product, can you share some experiences?
  + stability
  + scale (number of users, etc.)
  + How does it integrate with acl_users?
  + Willing to share English graphics and templates?

- Has anybody experiences with other products?

I am considering to offer @Mail, which looks impressive and is OK in price,
but it does not tie into Zope at all. (Or has somebody done this?) I mainly
worried about the administration effort of keeping usernames and passwords
in sync.

Web Chat
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I found this product:

http://www.zope.org/Members/jwashin/ZRTChat

Looks OK but is labeled as development.

- If anybody is using this product, can you share some experiences?
  + stability
  + scale (number of users, etc.)

- Has anybody experiences with other products?

Cheers

Marc