Posted by gmasky on October 19, 2008 at 8:13am
I am having a look at Fronter e-learning platform which is quite popular in Europe. One thing immediately strikes me is how close the platform is to Drupal in basic functionality, yes they even use fck editor, Class rooms and other Learning rooms (OG) etc
One great piece of functionality I found; I could configure my IMAP or POP3 email address to work within the system. Similarly, I can add any number of RSS feeds within the system. The aim is obviously to have a learning platform (OS) which allows outside elements to work from within the system.
What would it take to get such email functionality and RSS functionality to work from within Drupal.
I will post back as I explore the system.
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A brief answer here, but I'd say
that Drupal's pretty close.
The FeedAPI and related modules will deliver the RSS functionality, and more.
For Mail, it depends on your specific needs, but between MailFix and the Mail API/Webmail plus, there's some solid work in this direction.
http://drupal.org/project/mailfix
http://drupal.org/project/mail_api
http://drupal.org/project/webmail_plus
Cheers,
Bill
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