I will convince the team it's time to bring the legacy stuff up to date.
BTW, just installed act on my mac and it's quite nice (I have the latest
stuff on there) My boss is going to take a look this afternoon so I hope
he likes it too! Thanks for all the help

I noticed that you have several revisions available on the Downloads link. I know we should really update to 1.1, but for an "inter-rum solution" which would be the latest that works with django-0.96.1?

Do you have a comparison matrix between sphene, djangobb, and other popular django based forums? I've seen http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/ForumAppsComparison but I'm not sure that it's so up to date.

> python functions
Yeah, I think it's just pure python functions that do this now (I still have to check). But your response is quite helpful thanks - we'll just need to somehow tie our ldap scripts to set the user stuff in django (on our end) and integration should work. Thanks again.

Thanks Herbert. I should have clarified that we already have some python ldap scripts that do this. So we'd merely need to somehow hook into your user auth system so as to keep it single login. I didn't write these scripts (I'm at a new job and my boss basically just told me we have python scripts that do ldap authentication). I think he may have said something about storing user "stuff" in the session but I'm not sure. I have never built a django application so I'm pretty in the dark about how it does user auth stuff. I definitely need to take a day or two and build a "toy djano app" so I can see how this works (so forgive me if my questions are very newbie!)

I basically wanted to know if there was an easy way to inject or override sct for user credentials. Am I correct in perceiving from your last answer that if I can somehow inject the django session with this, sct will automatically pick it up (and not require the user to login again)? Thus achieving single sign? Thanks again.

I'm taking a look at Sphene and I'm trying to see how suitable it would be for the "criteria" my boss has given me for a forum. I'm wondering how/if the following would work for us?

- User Management: Need to be able to do single login via our own current LDAP
Are there any "hooks" for something like this? If so, where/how? I see some callbacks, but we have our own scripts that already do LDAP auth and I'd like to feed sphene with these credentials before the user gets to participate in the forum.

Email Integration: -- Daily Digest Checkbox, etc. -- RSS Feeds
I see the "Notify me by email" here on this forum but is there any RSS support? If not, would that be easy to integrate programatically?

Thanks!