Can you access to your MySQL table directly, perhaps using something like phpmyadmin?

Find out which postid has the problem of not being sent. Check the "post" table, and see if the "isusenetpost" is 1. When someone posts a new message, isusenetpost is 0 as the default. The script changes it to 1 after posting it.

Yup. same box. Dang :-)

Actually, just the opposite. By posting through the forum you are letting your posts be indexed and searchable by user name, otherwise the posts are by "guest". I use that feature quite often on the rest of my forum. Also, the biggest benefit in my opinion is that it's much easier to follow threads in a forum with threaded posts as compared to email lists where posts are received in your mailbox. If you don't read the list every day, it's a real pain trying to follow topics in your inbox vs. threaded posts on your forum.

However, for some reason I'll never understand, there will always be people who only want to participate via email. Thus the need for both the forum and email list and not just one or the other.


It sounds like you are assuming that I'm not the list master. As it happens I'm not ;). But my point is that you are looking at this from only one point of view, which is putting the forum owner in a dishonest light. Of course, I would never do this without a discussion with the list owner as well as the list users. I mentioned before that only lists users would have posting privileges, making the "closed" list not an issue. It would only be done with everyone?s approval. However, when I suggest it I would like to be able to demonstrate how it would work, but I can't do that without a working system :)

I'm quite sure that if it worked like how I hope it will that everyone would be agreeable to it since it would benefit both the list and the forum; increased exposure for both groups and imo, a much better user interface with the forum.

hi lierduh, I can :)

It?s interesting - I had a look in the tables as you suggested and some of them still had the value isusenetpost is 0. But that was yesterday! I said it doesn?t post new threads - but after I had that little peek into the tables...and damn,..now it works like a charme :paranoid: What the heck?s happening there.....?? May be my database is alive and made from flesh and blood ? But than it would be a female for sure :)

[high] * Marv takes full cover.. :knockedout:[/high]

Whatever, the problem seems to be solved. Thanks, lierduh.

So the benefit only comes down to that particular user's username is used instead of a 'Guest post' in the forums? (oh, also the post count is boosted by one?:)). When a list member (who is also your forum member) posts to the list by sending an email, he or she will receive all the messages in the email. A filter would need to be activated in his/her email clients to get rid of all the messages coming from the mailing list. So that he/she can read the same messages in your forum with some of the reading benefits that a forum provides (may be)? An email client usually does threading too.:)

There are quite a few benefits by using email to participate in a mailing list instead of using a forum interface. eg.

1) No delay of sending the message
2) Alerted straight away when a reply is available
3) Knowing the format sent will be the format seen in the email
...

I can fully understand someone who wants to use the proper way to participate in a mailing list. I can however understand people who do not trust a forum to send the message.:)

My point of view comes from providing the functionality that are logical to general users. Or providing options for different users to make them logical.:)

I guess what you want to set up is (let me know if it is not):

* Let only handful of forum members to post in the mailing list forum, perhaps by setting forum permission.
* They need to subscribe to the list using the same email address as the email address they use for the forums

I think finding the methodology is the hard part.

Looks like the mailing list part of the function has taken over the usenet part. It can only be:

1) The usenet part just works without the need to post a message
2) There are plenty demand for the mailing list function (should I say list archive function at this stage)

Mainly it allows you to search by username. For example, show me all posts by Capt. Kirk with Klingon in the title. I use this type of search all the time when I remember who posted the thread and the subject, but I can't seem to find it by a general search. I also use the "find all posts by this user" quite often.

Well, I would suspect that those who choose to participate via the forum would no long use the email list since it would be redundant.

When I originally was looking at forum software there was one product (I forget which one) that allowed users to particpate via the forum or via email. So, if someone posted a message on the forum they would receive an email that they could then respond to. That response would then show up back in the forum. Neither one would even be aware the other wasn't posting messages in the same way. This allows the best of both worlds, those who want to particpate via the forum can and those who choose to only particpate via the mailing list can also do so. The hard part is making it transparant to the user. When I think how it would work I guess that's what I'm shooting for :) Those who are happy to post via email could continue to do so and those who want to view and post messages on the forum could choose that option. The end result is that both groups are happy and both groups have increased exposure.

Yes. The way I would set it up would be to deny everyone posting privlages to that forum, and then I would create a usergroup with posting privlages, and anyone that was a member of the listgroup who requested it, I would move them to that usergroup.

I think so although I'm not sure. My *guess* would be that for it to work, my email address would first be accepted, and then the listbot would look at the From field in the header (or maybe the reply to email address?) and then use that to show who the message is from.

I am likely the only one here who is interested in this function :D, so I don't want to take up too much of your time making something that I'm likely the only one to use. I was just hoping it might be somthing quick and simple, like unscrambling the outoing email address and perhaps inserting the posters name into the "From" field. Regardless, I am very happy with how it works now and I appreciate the work you have done on the hack :)

It's great, that's what is is. :D

I am delighted with this; thank you! It was painless to install, worked both inbound and out the first time without fiddling, and adds a handy new service for my members.

I would like to find a way to automate the gateway.php calls under WinNT 4, though. I understand the concept of 'cron' but don't see how this maps directly over, other than through "Scheduled Tasks" - specifically, how I can run the PHP script either in a browser window that closes when done, or without the need for a browser at all.

(Anyone who has insights on my related question of importing text files as vB3 messages is welcome to chime in as well, over at https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=66250 - thanks.)

i can find the name, like alt.paranormal - how do i know what it's nntp is?

NNTP is the protocol, like HTTP is for web pages. You'll find newsgroups on your ISP's news-server, often news.(ispname).com. Check with your ISP for specifics.

If your ISP doesn't carry newsgroups or the specific one you want, there are subscription services available, and maybe even a free German news-server still available upon request.

Is there a way to write a conditional in Postbit LEgact so that if it is a USENET or MList post that we can disable the entire postbit or just make it display something like "USENET"? That would make it a lot nicer when you have some really long names that are taken from the usenet.

Also, is there a way to disable the killfile for mlists only? The killfile is an AWEOME addition and has really, really helped me on my site.

Thanks again for all the work on this!!

-Jason