Messages via Email like YahooGroups

[Peter Walker]

Hi,
I am new to this forum so forgive me if this has been answered elsewhere.

I agree that a Forum Email feature where all posts are sent out like in Yahoogroups would be useful.

I had a system like this running on my phpbb based board and it worked fine. Instead of having the forum software send the same post per Email to hundreds of members which would have put a high load on the server, I simply had one Email, containing the entire post text in a structured way, sent to my own read only Yahoogroup - only the automatic posts would be accepted by the group. The Yahoogroup was then responsible for redistributing the posts to my members, who wanted this, as either individual mails or as a daily digest.

This also had the advantage that the Yahoogroup still had a copy of all the posts after my phpbb board had been hacked and the sql database destroyed. By processing the formatted messages from the Yahoogroup, it should be possible to fully rebuild the existing forum posts. I am currently rebuilding my forum using vBulletin instead aof a heavily moded phpbb board.

My question is, can vBulletin 3.5.0 be used to send all new posts in a similar way to a Yahoogroup which in turn sends out the post to my members.