Content management + forums + mail

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Content management + forums + mail

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I'm building a community site for a non-profit organisation. We'd like to publish stuff on a website via some sort of workflow (someone writes an article and someone else approves) and writers don't have to worry about HTML, so we'll need a content management system. Ideally the content management system should have event calendar and image gallery capabilities.

We'd also like to have a discussion forum that contributors as well as members of the non-profit can discuss the articles and other stuff.

We're also planning to give each member his own e-mail address and webmail access, and we'll run a couple of mailing lists to disseminate mass mailings to them.

Since we already have a (rather large) member database in LDAP, we'd really like to have all of the above authenticating against LDAP so we don't have to run two sets of user databases.

Before I start getting Metadot + Courier + Mailman and try to jam them all together with OpenLDAP, is there some sort of an all-in-one package out there that will fulfill these requirements?

Thanks for any info!

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forum:griffinn · Answer 1 · March 17, 2004, 9:19 p.m.

forum:griffinn 20 years, 6 months ago

Meh. I'm getting typo3 + exim4 + (some sort of webmail thingy) + Mailman and hacking on them until they live happily with OpenLDAP.

forum:virtig01 · Answer 2 · March 18, 2004, 1:27 a.m.

forum:virtig01 20 years, 6 months ago

The college I work at uses Horde as it's web mail system. It allows for LDAP authentication. Horde includes a whole bunch of subprojects ( http://www.horde.org/projects.php ), but I'm not sure if this is exactly what you need.

forum:Garry · Answer 3 · March 20, 2004, 2:36 p.m.

forum:Garry 20 years, 6 months ago

You may want to look at phpnuke - http://www.phpnuke.org , cms, with forum with webmail need php and mysql

Regards,

Garry

forum:SteveG · Answer 4 · March 22, 2004, 7:57 p.m.

forum:SteveG 20 years, 6 months ago

There are lots of CMS systems that support basically what you want. Take a look at http://www.opensourcecms.com/ to testdrive several

without having to install and configure them yourself. As a starting point, I can recommend Drupal, e107, phpWebSite as fairly powerful, and stable, systems (well, e107 moves pretty fast, but you don't have to do every upgrade). The various Nuke CMS are aimed at being more of a slashdot like site, primarily news and comments, rather than static pages.

forum:unixfool · Answer 5 · April 20, 2004, 5:28 p.m.

forum:unixfool 20 years, 5 months ago

From a professional standpoint, I'd recommend PostNuke over PHPNuke. PHPNuke is the Microsoft of CMSs…very insecure.

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