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make the forum look up the mail [message #17711]

Tue, 13 April 2004 18:00

cyberscribe

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I'm stupid... really stupid. Just so there are no illusions here. So if you undertake to help me fix this problem please remember that I have the intellect of an 11 year old. No scratch that make me six.

I installed the forum, I created the topics, I linked the email accounts (after I created them), I set the mailserver to the proper domain.

but I don't know how to make the rest of it work (how to make the forum go get the emails off the mail server), the manual says having a procmail utility... I'm assuming that I don't. I saw the sample script for the procmail process, but I don't know how to implement it or where to find the utility that I would need to make it work.

the forum is located at www.godshosts.net/fudforum/index.php

I have set up a general admin account for anyone who wants to try fixing it, just contact me.

Thanks in advance.

hey... I'm drawin a blank on this one...

[Updated on: Tue, 13 April 2004 18:02]

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Re: make the forum look up the mail [message #17716 is a reply to message #17711]

Tue, 13 April 2004 18:52

Ilia

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Having an admin account is not going to allow anyone to help you. Basically what you need to do is via an external utility make any e-mail that goes to the addresses you've created by piped to the forum's maillist.php script.
This can be done in any number of ways, the one I prefer happens to be procmail, but if you search the archives on this forum you will find a variety of different implementations that also work.

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Re: make the forum look up the mail [message #17718 is a reply to message #17716]

Tue, 13 April 2004 19:17

cyberscribe

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OK.. so I need to install procmail on my server? I'll try to figure out how to do that. Get back to you later.

hey... I'm drawin a blank on this one...

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Re: make the forum look up the mail [message #17721 is a reply to message #17716]

Tue, 13 April 2004 19:28

cyberscribe

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what about mailman, can it do what you're talking about? It comes with the CPanel manager.

hey... I'm drawin a blank on this one...

[Updated on: Tue, 13 April 2004 19:44]

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Re: make the forum look up the mail [message #17723 is a reply to message #17721]

Tue, 13 April 2004 19:51

Ilia

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mailman is a mailing list manager iirc, so I do not think it'll do what is needed, which is pipe messages to a script.

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Re: make the forum look up the mail [message #18197 is a reply to message #17711]

Thu, 13 May 2004 05:22

Shep

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Hello folks I am new to Fudform, and use it in the eGroupWare setting. I need to use the maillist to get messages from a mailing list into a given forum.

My installation is on a Windows 2000 server with PHP and MySQL. So, how do I get this thing to work?

I read elsewhere on the forum here that someone was working on this, but there has never been a reply to indicate that it is working for Windows users.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Shep

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Re: make the forum look up the mail [message #18204 is a reply to message #18197]

Thu, 13 May 2004 12:41

Ilia

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It should work the same way... Just make sure you are using the latest version of EgroupWare. I have not tried it on windows myself, since I don't have a windows development environment, but the code should work fine in it non the less.

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Re: make the forum look up the mail [message #18211 is a reply to message #17711]

Thu, 13 May 2004 15:00

Shep

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I cannot seem to find or create maillist.php? I had to create the "scripts" folder manually, but the file is not there.

Shep

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Re: make the forum look up the mail [message #18216 is a reply to message #18211]

Thu, 13 May 2004 17:01

Ilia

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look inside the setup directory.

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Re: make the forum look up the mail [message #18217 is a reply to message #18216]

Thu, 13 May 2004 18:05

Shep

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OK - I found maillist.php - and I have set my maillist in the admin - how do I activate it? Or run it manually? OR??? I am not sure what needs to be done next.

Shep

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