Posting by E-Mail!

[Neo]

it most likely something in vb3.. but it takes me to long to check my emails now a days.. and I hate getting like 400 emails from the vb sites saying there is a new reply... it makes me wish I had my penuckel

[BillP]

I would use it ONLY for creating a BBS-based archive of a few email-lists I run. In other words, one-way only into a read-only BBS forum.

I'm looking forward to this functionality as a built-in feature of 3.x (hopefully) so I don't have to code my own and end up inadvertently tieing myself down to a particular version of VB.

Keep up the good work, all.

[Erwin]

Very very cool idea. Hopefully will be standard in the vB3.

[indiamike]

Let me see if I have this straight.


So now I get a email from everyone who replies to a thread that I am subscribed too instead of just one email telling me there may be more posts but I have to visit.

Example....today I participated in a thread and subscribed to it, an hour later I had three emails waiting for me from the people who posted to it without me every visiting the thread.

Hmmmmmm.....I sort of like the "just one" email, since now if a thread explodes my in- box will be flooded with mail from the thread.

Mike

[merk]

Originally posted by JamesUS
It doesn't need to use a daemon

Really?

Then is the message just processed next time a page is loaded?

Im curious how you get it happening if it doesnt use a daemon of some kind

[dabean]

merk: you can directly spool the result from sendmail/procmail/qmail etc.. to a php script when ever a email is received for a particular address or block of addresses

Whilst you do still have the mail daemon running you don't need any other daemons.

Or there's always cron

[merk]

Ah, it makes sense now

Thanks

I always thought you could do something like that, but its a bit hard on a shared server :\

[Gholsie]

I just tried to reply via email and it didn't work in this forum!!

Anyway, I am still looking for a mod that enables me to send an email to a forum. When that email enters the forum it creates a new thread.

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[mjames]

It didn't work for me, either. Do you *have* to include a post title? I didn't, I'm wondering if that's why it didn't work.

[Fusion]

Can anyone confirm or deny that something like this hack is on the board for v3 or later? If nothing else as an option?