Hello,

I am highly interested to find an email module like this as I try to support local refugee organisations here in Germany with a Drupal installation which can be used for organisating contacts and working groups. It is really very difficult to have emails in one tool, mailinglists, event management and volunteer planning in several others especially when many volunteers are not very familiar with computer based work. Contacts come in and reach several states of interaction (lets say "is interested to support refugees", "has a specific interest" or "is highly comitted") and all this can not be easily handled from a dedicated email programme.

My question now is: what are your plans with this module? Will there be futher developments or does this project fall asleep? It seems to me a quite dificult and complex topic to create a good to handle webmailing interface so I would not dare to do it on my own but I would interested to suport you with my Drupal/ PHP skills. Please let me know about your plans.

best,
Tobias

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tobiberlin’s picture

As Drupal 8 is in beta state - are there plans to upgrade this module for D8?

oadaeh’s picture

Initially, this was just a simple email client to address a client's needs to have his 100+ employees check their company email in a single place, and not have to support 10+ different email clients. The reason for creating the module as opposed to using something else already available is that I wanted to integrate it with the website they already had in place, and there was nothing else available at the time.

Over time, my plans changed, such that I wanted to create an email client that I could and would use as my primary email client, and that would address all the functionality I wanted in a client, without all the problems and deficiencies. I had found in those I used.

That has yet to materialize, mostly due to the fact that I am doing it in my spare time, and that has diminished considerably over the last two years, since my family has been living nomadically.

I still have a desire to do that which I planned, but I am currently focused on a different side project that I am putting all of my extra time and energy into.

As far as porting to D8, for me, that won't happen until I finish my changes to the D7 version, if at all. The port to D8 will be another complete re-write without any additional functionality, and that is something I am not looking forward to.

In the #D7CX: Drupal 7 stable release status section of the project page, I outlined (and updated) my plans. Those plans did start, and I do have a 2.x branch that first integrated with Views and VBO, which I have just made public (even though there is not a tagged release) and updated with what I had completed up to that time. I have not completed that process, however, and that is where it stalled.

oadaeh’s picture

Component: Code » Miscellaneous
Category: Feature request » Plan
tobiberlin’s picture

Thank you very much for this detailed response.