thanks kevin,
I did a clean install and everything is working as it should.

However the "preview" hack doesn't work. It's not fetching $postid.
Taken from partial error report
It would be great to have an option to modify past posts that have "unwanted footers".

Hey, no one has responded to a post I created a few days ago ... in regards to $subject. It needs to be wrapped in htmlspecialchars() - - some titles may have html in it.

thanks again

I figured out why giganews suspended my posting privileges.

Someone sent in a complaint about one of the posts that one my users made.

:(

that's why it would be good to have an option to disable upload (to newsgroup/mlist) of postings made within the forum

?5 says it does :nervous:

well ... it doesn't work for me. :ermm:

I'll look again ... it was working before.

I have just installed this mod and I am having trouble getting it to run.

First i tried NNTP and that failed.

So then i tried to collect from a pop3 mail account and I got this error when running gateway.php for the first time.

I am sure I did not make an error as the installation is pretty straight forward.

If ran from scheduled task manager in vb3

Otherwise the forums work OK

Any help apprciated.

Sorry, it was my own fault, email works now.

But I have another few questions on some things I would like to do.

The mail list that i am backing up requires registration to post and the backup i will make on the forum should be read only. i don't want to spam the list with test messages to try this one out so i thought i would ask.

If I simply change the forum permissions to prevent usergroups from being able to post/reply for that forum, should that be sufficient to stop forum users from using the email gateway to post messages to the mail list server?

Also when messages are delivered they sometimes are prefixed "RE:...." or "FW:...." Can these characters be stripped?
If I could strip things like FW: and RE: I could forward old messages to test threading etc (which does not seem to work).
Each post has a fixed name enclosed with suqare brackets always, like [listname]

Any help appreciated

Yes, that will work.

Use KevinM's hack to thread properly and that will get rid of the "RE's".


You can get rid of those by using the Replacement Variable Manager. Go to your Admin CP, select Styles and Templates, then Replacement Variable Manager. For the style you want this to apply to, select add new replacement variable, then enter the text you want removed (eg, [yourlistname]), and leave the replacement blank. That will do the trick. Note, the text isn't actually stripped, it's just hidden from view.

What is the point of having newsgroups in the forums, then? Just another content source?

Cheers Dave

I applied Kevins mod, but it seems erratic. As the mail list is not public and the posts spread reasonably evenly across the day I do not think its a server issue.

Screenshot is below.

A couple of posts were threaded correctly, then some were not, then another 2, then some were not.

Perhaps related to time received? I think the threaded mod should filter by subject no problem regardless of when it is received, if i read the functions correct, or is the filtering done after messsages are batch downloaded or per message. The mail server from which it collects the messages is the same as the site is hosted on, so no delays there.

you can see from the list that one subject was threaded OK (after Kevins mod) then another, but the posts after that were not, even although subject lines were identical.

Any ideas?