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Include Yahoogroup Mailing functionality [message #7357]

Tue, 19 November 2002 12:04

Micha37

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Hi there,

I understood that it is possible to post a forum message to a certain e-mail address by using the mailinglist feature.

What would be very nice, is a script that imports mails from a defined Mail account, writes them into a forum and forwards them to subscribed members, similar as yahoogroups is doing.

I have checked many times for a script, which can do this, but so far no result.

I assume that this function would give a real boost to FudForum, which is already now the best forum, which I found.

Thanks for considering my proposal and very best regards

Michael

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Re: Include Yahoogroup Mailing functionality [message #7365 is a reply to message #7357]

Tue, 19 November 2002 14:08

Ilia

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Hmm, why not use the existing script, plus how will the script be able to import from a mailbox? It would be in competition with your regular mail retrieval script.

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Re: Include Yahoogroup Mailing functionality [message #7366 is a reply to message #7365]

Tue, 19 November 2002 14:43

Micha37

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Hi Prottoss,

thanks for your message.
In my idea the script should do the following steps:

In case a member send an e-mail to the group:

Registered Members will send e-mails to a designated E-Mail Address.
FUDForum imports this mails from the mailserver (POP3)
FUDForum automatically forwards this mail to the e-mail addresses of all registered members for that particular forum.

In case a member writes an online message to the forum:

FUDForum forwards this mail to the e-mail addresses of all registered members for that particular forum.

In my understanding the current scripts can not do this, isn't it?

Best regards

Michael

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Re: Include Yahoogroup Mailing functionality [message #7367 is a reply to message #7366]

Tue, 19 November 2002 14:46

Ilia

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The current script will work with any mail drop mechanism that will pipe the message to it. The mail drop mechanism to setup is procmail, however there are others.

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Re: Include Yahoogroup Mailing functionality [message #7369 is a reply to message #7367]

Tue, 19 November 2002 15:12

Micha37

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Hi,

I understand but my problem is, that I do not have any access to my providers mail handler. I can register new Mail accounts but thats about all I can do.

In this case it seems no chance for me.

Best regards

Michael

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Re: Include Yahoogroup Mailing functionality [message #7371 is a reply to message #7369]

Tue, 19 November 2002 17:14

Ilia

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Well then the alternative for you would be to write or download a PHP/Perl/C script that could connect to your POP3(?) mailbox and retrieve appropriate messages.

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