This is a great idea, but I'd rather have the people coming back to my site to reply to threads in hopes that another thread title will catch their attention and to get them more active on my site.

This is fab, and there is one thing that will turn this to another level IMO.

Would it be possible for this to receive email attachments (images) and attach them to the new posts? This would allow anyone with an MMS phone to email their Media Message to the forums/site e.t.c.

Keep up the good work, thanks!

This is planned for the next few betas after I've got some bugs fixed. I plan on having a global on/off for accepting attachments and a on/off for accepting all attachment types (for example, for forwarded emails) or restricting it to only allowed image types like images :)



True.. the problem that we as forum lovers run into is that there are many people that due to evil work environments can only access email during the day and rarely check anything else. This is the group that LOVES mailing lists and email groups. We are missing out on a whole nother level of interaction in users with this group. If we can bring these people into the fold as well, then we increase the posts on the forums, the stuff to read, and likely convert a few of those mailing list lovers to forum readers :)

Eagerly awaiting this mod to reach a stable point!

So true, content is king, and if people can post in working hours by replying emails,
forum activity will certainly increase. Furthermore, the awareness of the existence of
the forum will increase.

The next beta version will be released soon. It looks like I was actually able to totally remove the file edits! :)

I'm working on a new width bug I found with the messages, and then I'll work on the usergroup bug. The usergroup is the big one, but if the messages look like crap, it hardly matters how well it works ;)

Just wanted to give you all an update :)

This looks sweet, please get this out of BETA, please :)

subscribed!

Something this big, I don't wanna use beta! ;)

That's a great thought. But in practice we lose a lot of visitors to Yahoo Groups because they like getting emails and they reply to the email. I am waiting for this hack to be completed and I will donate to the cause.

Thanks for the support gang :)

I haven't released the next beta yet as I'm hoping to jump straight to a solid version. I've fixed both the blank bug, and the quote boxes, as well as I have recoded almost all of the code that I had permission from RedTyger to use.

I'm left with Attachments and Forum Permissions. Attachments should be quick and easy. The share class file that I'm using (same one that Colin used) already pulls out the attachments from the message, so I just need to add a few catches in there for those that don't want to allow attachments and for those that want to restrict the type of attachments :)

Getting close!!