Posting by E-Mail!

[Admin]

That's right, you can now e-mail posts to this forum, and they will be added to the thread automatically!
This means that when receiving notifications to thread you subscribed (this was revamped as well; the post text is in the e-mail now), you can reply to that e-mail with your post without even visiting the thread. Obviously this is useful if you don't want to update your session (which will cause all post markers to go off) but still have an urgent reply.

To increase security, each and every one of you got a new e-mail password. This password is used when replying through e-mail, so people can't spoof e-mail headers and pretend to be you. Keep this password private as you keep any other!
This e-mail password can be found in your profile, just go to User CP => Profile, and look at the bottom. Currently it's a random string, feel free to change this to your own password. Note that this password is not kept encrypted in the database as it's send to you with every notification. (this is also why I didn't use your normal password)

To post to a thread, you need to e-mail post@vbhacks.com, and include a string in the subject line.
If you have the threadid of the thread, you write this: [thread-threadid-emailpassword]. The rest of the subject will be the title of your post, and the body of your e-mail will be the message. The latter must not be empty.
If you have the postid, you write this: [post-postid-emailpassword]. The above applies here as well.

Of course, permissions are checked when you try to post, so don't try to do some funky stuff -- you will get an error e-mail in return. After your post is processed (should be quite, depends) you will receive a confirmation e-mail with a link to your post.

Here is how a typical notification e-mail looks like now:

Hello FireFly,

FireFly has just replied to a thread you have subscribed to entitled - test - in the Testing Zone forum of vBulletin.org Forum.

~~~~~ NEW ~~~~~
New at vBulletin.org!
You can now reply to the thread by replying to this message. All you need to do is to make sure this code appears in the e-mail subject:
[thread-36616-xxxx]
You should also remove this text to ensure your reply is readable by other forum users.
~~~~~ NEW ~~~~~

Here are the contents of the post:
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e-mail reply
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This thread is located at:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...6&goto=newpost

There may be other replies also, but you will not receive any more notifications until you visit the board again.

Yours,
vBulletin.org Forum team

Anyway, I hope some of you find this new feature helpful. I personally don't think I will ever use it, but that's just me.

Good day,

[filburt1]

Will you be posting the code so we can use it on our own forums?

[Admin]

No.

[Recluse]

this is what i requested a couple weeks ago

[DjSap]

hmm btw can you tell me how you get the db automaticly update when you get a mail on a certain email adress, is there any kind of tutorial for this?

[afterlab]

Wow, great addition FireFly! I don't think i'll use it, but it seems like an amazing addition for the 10,000+ members here. Great job! :smoke:

[FWC]

Originally posted by FireFly
Anyway, I hope some of you find this new feature helpful. I personally don't think I will ever use it, but that's just me.

Good day,

This could come in handy while I'm at work and can't afford to start a session.

[TheCaver]

That's a shame that the code will not be posted.......

I've looked for ways to combine a traditional mailing list and vB, and this looks like a good start.......

:cry:

JC

[Gholsie]

Has anyone ever figured out how to assign an email address to a particular forum? I'd like to be able to do this so I can send messages to a forum by email.

This would be useful for archiving email list conversations. Just subscribe the forum's address and you have an automatic archive.

Simple?

[Dalius]

Originally posted by FireFly
No.

That was straight out.