| Double posts and multiple topics [message #25525] |
Sat, 11 June 2005 20:16  |
BobB
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I have FUD forum integrated with mailing lists. Some messages posted to the forum seem to come back via the mailing list and get re-posted to the forum. I can tell by the IP address that the second post comes from the mailing list. Otherwise they're exactly the same, even with the same time/date stamp.
Also, some topics are created two or more times, even though the topic/subject is exactly the same. This appears to not be necessarily related to the mailing list integration. Sometimes a reply to an existing message will become a new topic instead of going under the original message as a reply to it, whether the reply was made via the forum or the mailing list.
I do have "Slow Reply Match" enabled. Any suggestions how to improve these situations?
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| Re: Double posts and multiple topics [message #25536 is a reply to message #25525] |
Sun, 12 June 2005 17:16  |
Ilia
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Well, the forum adds a special header to the messages it sends back to the list. Based on the presense of this header it determines if the message should be imported or not.
As far as matching goes, it is primarily based on referneces header, which uses special ids to signify to which message the current messager is a reply to. In the absense of this value, if slow match is enabled, it tries to match things based on the subject.
Analyze the non-matched messages (headers n'all) and see why were they not matched, what was missing...
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| Re: Double posts and multiple topics [message #25540 is a reply to message #25536] |
Sun, 12 June 2005 21:57 |
BobB
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Found the problem. It's a lengthy explanation, but someone else might profit from it.
The mailing lists are set for restricted posting (only members can post). The FUD forum sends messages to the mailing lists as "from" the author. Messages posted by those who use the web forum only and are not members of the mailing list(s) will bounce as "non-member" submissions when they're sent to the majordomo list(s). I have a list of alternate acceptable addresses for those who post to the list(s) from more than one, and intended to add the forum-only users to it as they posted, then re-send the bounced messages. This only needs to be done once for each user who posts, but there were many of them the first few days after the new forum went online. My usual habit when re-sending bounced list mail is to add the "Approved:" header and delete all but the necessary ones. I had been unwittingly deleting the FUD-generated header in the process. That will not happen again.
BTW, the "old" FuseTalk forum from which we changed to FUD integrated with the mailing lists much differently. It sent all messages to the list(s) from one generic user, not the original author. For this reason, this situation did not exist and forum users were not already added to the alternate list. Also, I like the way FUD integrates with the mailing lists MUCH, MUCH more. To mailing list users, it looks like everyone is on the mailing list. To forum users, it looks like everyone is on the forum. It's great!!
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| Re: Double posts and multiple topics [message #25561 is a reply to message #25560] |
Mon, 13 June 2005 20:17 |
Ilia
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If filter won't work against imported messages.
Send me a complete body & headers of one duplicate message as a text file.
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