I need to develop a module (similar to yahoo groups) integrated to drupal.
I am listing down the major tweaks required.
I need the drupal forums to have an additional feature of message posting/receiving through email. To be more clear, each forum will be replicated with features present in yahoo groups. Please note that there would be several forums and all forums must have a feature of moderation ( Again this is similar to yahoo groups, where you can either reply to email or go to the website and approve the posting. This moderation feature should have an option to enable/disable)
1. General forum - Any member can post/recieve emails.
If in case, I need to add a placement forums with the similar rights as that of general forum, i should be able to do that online.
4. I am planning to have all other forums batch specific. Members in 1999 batch should be able to see/post messages in that forum only. (the permission setting for group wise should be easy using some present modules).
Both 1 &2 should have moderation feature (option: enable/disable).
Moderators : 2 types -
a. Global moderator ( Moderator of their batch & General forums) .
b. Batch moderator ( Moderator of own batch only)
Administrator must have the right to add/remove/edit moderators.