Email "portal" in Python?

[Carlos Ribeiro]

On 7 Nov 2004 20:19:56 -0800, Peter Clark <pc451 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Think of something like MyYahoo: a personalized portal with news
> aggregator, weather forecast, comics, etc. Now instead of visiting a
> web site, think of all of it being sent daily as an email. It does
> have a web interface, but mostly for selecting your content: this is
> my location for weather, these are the news feeds I'm interested in,
> these are the comics I like, save my preferences, and the server takes
> care of the rest. Does such a thing exist? (Even in other non-Python
> languages?) I've tried Freshmeat, and the other usual sources, but so
> far, nothing. If there isn't any such creature, I'll write my own, but
> I wanted to first check that I'm not re-inventing the wheel.

What you are looking for is a *good* content management system,
integrated with a mailing list manager. Perhaps there is something
along these lines for Zope/Plone, but even if it exists, you'll
probably need to customize it heavily.

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