The biggest feature needed....

[rebby]

why even do a vb hack for this when it can be done by simply setting up email accounts on the server and using procmail to dump the email into the database??

I would like to see this also - but I would make it so that the Admin could choose who gets email service and who does not. Call me a bastard - but that would prevent ten million accounts from people that you do not care about, and lowers system resources to your real members. I kind of want to give out my domain name, but just to people that I think deserve to use it

[petemay]

Originally posted by thewitt
I would approach this as two separate projects.

The first would be notification of new messages to anyone subscribed to a thread. The only thing you need to do differently from what exists today is to include the body of the message in the mail that is sent out - and keep track of who received mail about what posting.

You don't want to send two messages to someone who is currently receiving posts when a reply is posted in a thread they have posted in, but the options are simple and easy to manage.

The second portion would be to allow email responces to posts that get added back into the thread. This is a much more difficult piece and I'd do it second.

There is no need to include images in the outgoing email. A link to any attached image would be fine.

Makes the first release of the hack something fairly easy to do, and get in the field for comment...

-t

I on board with 'thewitt' on this... This is exactly the type of feature that I'm looking for on my site. It would be of great benefit if my users could get an email about a new post, and their email reply would get posted back into the thread without them having to visit the site. My goal is to share information more efficiently. If some users choose to participate only by email that's fine by me - as long as they participate and share their knowledge. Others may then visit the site and benefit from their nuggets of wisdom.