[Using Sakai] Your experience with Email Archive tool

[Adam Marshall]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sakai-user-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-user-
> bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Keli Sato Amann
> Sent: 16 February 2012 20:16
> To: sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org
> Subject: [Using Sakai] Your experience with Email Archive tool
> 
> Hello,
> We've had random people on campus mentioning they wished that one
> could send an email to all site participants without logging into Sakai. It was a
> surprise to find that email archive already existed. However, I spoke with our
> tech support who was here early on and they said that we had looked into
> using it early on but got reports of it dropping email, so we stopped. For now,
> instructors an still use our Mailman installation to request a mailing list for
> their class that is already synched with enrollment as well as lists for just
> students and staff. But the ability to do this from Sakai might have some
> advantages for project sites, which would require more active management.
> 
> A search on "email archive sakai" reveals several schools seem to still be
> using email archive so I was wondering
> 1) did you also experience problems of mail being sent to that address but
> not being received and/or archived? If those problems were real, have they
> been addressed by code updates in later versions of the tool, or in tweaking
> local set up?

We have never heard of this happening.

> 
> 2) It would be interesting to know which of the following tools your school
> offers and which are available but stealthed (available only to those who
> ask). For instance, I have filled in what Stanford does below
> -Mailtool (to be replaced in 2.9 by Mail Sender)--Stanford offered as
> stealthed tool but now offers Messages because this was deprecated
> -Messages (MSGCNTR): yes, stealthed, considering making default
> -Announcements: yes
> -Email Archive: no

Mailtool - we use, yes
Messages - active but hardly used
Announcement - yes, lots of use
Email archive - yes, lots of use

> 
> 3) If you don't offer all 4, can you describe the reasons behind your offering?
> I can see that each of these tools are unique and have their own completely
> appropriate approaches to whether you can opt out, whether it is section
> aware, etc. But I worry that it would be overwhelming to offer 3, let alone 4.
> 
> 4) If you do use Email Archive did anyone tweak it so that the address is
> hardcoded and not customizable?

Nope

Adam

> 
> Keli Amann
> User Experience Specialist
> Academic Computing Services, Stanford University
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