[Tralala]

Originally Posted by Cyricx

I do have plans to enable this to have automatic subscription if the admin wants, that's hoped to be accomplished very soon.

Would that resolve your needs?

You'd be able to have an announcement forum, that all the users are automatically subscribed too. Then the users you wished to be able to create threads could do so and it would send out the email to all your members.

Hmm. I suppose I could work with that. I'll have to give it a try. What I don't like about that is the "FROM" address would be the forum admin's email address I imagine -- alerting the recipient essentially that a thread has been created -- and not from the actual sender. It adds a level of confusion and complexity I was hoping to avoid.

Would it be possible that this "announcement forum" is invisible, only set up as a gateway for the emails to get sent out? (I don't see it as even having to be an "active" forum.)

Also, if I only plan to allow users to receive new threads and replies (and these "announcements") via email ... but not actually POST via email... is the IMAP support still required?

I ask because my webhoster (Dreamhost) doesn't support it, and I'm not really sure we need that component. If a user wants to post, well, they can revisit the forum.

I simply want my users to get informed of posts and announcements via email, so they are kept in the loop about an upcoming event that's being planned for them. They rarely respond, but need to get info from the smaller subset of organizers. So that's why I love the idea of your hack. I'm just hoping it could be used more like a mailing (mass distro) list, sourced by the vBulletin's member database.