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[Gholsie]

A long time ago (before vbulletin.org was created), I was part of a discussion about an idea to create Email addresses for individual forums.

Is there a hack available to do this?

We were talking about the ability to assign an email address to a particular forum. Then, all messages sent to that email address were submitted as new posts in that forum.

It's a way to allow an email mailing list (majordomo, mailman, etc) to interact with web-forums.

Anyway, is there something developed for this already? I've been out of this world for awhile.

-- Mike :pirate:

[Adrian Kelland]

Did you ever do this yourself, I am looking for exactly this kind of process, but I am not a programmer :cry:

[Gholsie]

No, I never put together this code. But, there were a few programmers at vBulletin.com (http://www.vbulletin.com) working on it. I don't know how far they got. And, I think those hacking forums were wiped clean when everything moved over here to vbulletin.org (not sure about that).

I'll do a search at vbulletin.com and see if I can find that stuff again.

It's a worthwhile hack and it's in somebody's mind... I just need to find that somebody.

[FWC]

Originally posted by Gholsie
And, I think those hacking forums were wiped clean when everything moved over here to vbulletin.org (not sure about that).Nothing was deleted when the hacks forum was moved. It was just moved. :)

[Gholsie]

Where is the old hacks forum from vbulletin.com?

[Adrian Kelland]

Ghoslie

I found this for a start, any help? It seems to be mainly about email out, but has aspects of email in.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12061