Need modification to vBulletin to support Instant Email Forum functions

[hughrheinsohn]

We are a new user of vBulletin. We are a manufacturer and we are setting up an online user forum so that users can communicate with each other to discuss issues, ideas, problems, and so on that relate to our products.

We want to implement the system so that Users can subscribe to Instant Email for all new posts. The standard application allows users to subscribe to Daily or Weekly Digest only, with no option to subscribe to Instant Email.

Here's how we want the system to work:

1. User A makes a new post on Forum X within our vBulletin implementation.

2. An email is automatically generated to all subscribed Users (Users who have selected the Instant Email option) that contains the title of the post in the subject line of the email, preceded by an appropriate prefix (for example, "DV User Forum Post: [title of new post]")

3. Users who receive the email can reply to the email and the replies will show up as a new posting on the Forum, in the appropriate Thread and on the appropriate Forum.

4. The email replies are new posts to the forum, and therefore also get emailed out to subscribed Users.

Do you have a mod that can do this (or something similar to this?)

We have not yet launched our Forum and we are still in the testing stage.

Hugh Heinsohn
Digital Vision
www.digitalvision.se
hugh.heinsohn@digitalvision.se