Well, I don't use the msgid column in the thread table for anything. Although, I do update it and it must be doing it incorrectly. Small artifact from moving from fastforward's hack. I'll have to change that in the next release, but it causes no problems except taking up a little space and a little processor time.

Okay. One other thing I noticed is when a user of mine named Babs&Buster4EvR makes a post, his name shows up in the newsgroup as Babs& Buster4EvR, and the e-mail is BabsampBuster4EvR.2akbm@toonzone.net. It seems to be converting the ampersand to HTML. It's not a big deal, but I thought I'd mention it.

BTW, do you plan on adding a custom newsgroup e-mail option someday? That's probably the one thing I miss most from FastForward's hack.

What did he have in his hack? My plan is to make an email to PM gateway where someone could reply to the post made on the newsgroup privately and it'd go in the forums as a PM. I was also going to make it where the email address only worked for a week, which is why I callled it as timelimit.whatever.com for the domain. However, that might take a while to roll out as i'm woring on other projects.

With FastForward's hack, a custom profile field had to be created that would contain a user-specified e-mail address that they wanted to appear in their usenet posts. Each post was sent to the newsgroup with that e-mail address.

The reason I liked that method was that a user could alter their e-mail address to prevent spambots from picking it up (i.e. myname@yahoo-spamblock.com). I worry that your idea may cause spam to end up in people's PM boxes.

That's the reason that it'd be a time limited address. And it'd bounce any emails that did not have the email address in the to or cc line.

I'm a UNIX idiot and would like to install this hack. :) I do have access to a shell, but I do not know how to do the first part of this install "running the nntp.sql".

Could anyone give me a hand here? It could be via PM or email to jarvis@mhogaming.com as to keep the thread on-topic.

Thanks in advance!! :nervous:

Do you have phpMyAdmin? That would make this much easier...

Gamecrash,

I do have PhpMyAdmin... now that being said, I'm still lost. :confused:

Is this a completely new dB that I set up? I'm usually not this helpless, but I find myself needing some exact syntax to get going.

Thanks a million! :D

So does that mena, I can get the forums to pick up email from a pop3 account, ie it can pickup email from a mailbox and automatically post it to a forum for me?

That's exactly what it means. It can also send posts to an email address too.