Posting by E-Mail!

[Chris M]

I dont think anyone is entirely sure of what will be in version 3...

I would definately like to see something similar to this in vb3...

It would be worth its weight in Gold...

Satan

[JackG]

We would like this feature in our forums!

This is HUGE for using email Pagers like
the Motola T900 or Rim.

Please consider releasing this for all of us.

[rylin]

the thing most people don't seem to realize is that this isn't a feature that all of you will be able to use on _your_ forums... in fact, i bet less than 5% of you could use it.

what you need to actually do something useful is:
correctly set up mx records for your domain
the ability to change the sendmail/postfix/whatever configs to let you pipe email
have a parser that can be run over a CLI

i'm willing to bet most of you have PHP compiled as a module, but you probably have perl installed as well..
.. so then you only need DB, mysql, mime etc. etc modules

a nicely working system like this usually costs a couple of thousand bucks (yes, this is the way most decent web-mail programs work, I've written one myself)

while i strongly disagree with anyone who think this should be released with vb3, i do think it would be a nice gesture to write up a white-paper on how it's done, but differences in different mailer-daemons makes anything beyond abstract notes unuseful
(for instance, extra headers added by sendmail aren't there in postfix & vice versa)

just my $0.02 on this subject
cool idea to use it for the forums though.. i'm impressed

[edit]
the point i'm trying to get through is that there is no way for either jelsoft or a hack-author to be able to support this, due to the vast selection of software that can/needs to be used to maintain this[/edit]

[Learner29]

Originally posted by filburt1
Will you be posting the code so we can use it on our own forums?

and then FireFly answered with No



I truly expected that..... aranoid:

[Admin]

Someone already released this hack. The reason I don't release it is firmly stated earlier in this thread.

[Learner29]

thank you for having worked it out: It makes interaction on this forum much easier.

[Rand]

Hi all,

New around here. Searched for this email hack and was excited to find this thread started by Chen. Disappointed though that it doesn't contain the hack.

Can someone please point me in the direction of where the hack is posted?

Is this as complicated as okidoki suggests? (earlier in this thread)

I participate in a mail list that would be awesome to convert to one that is archived in VB. Wouldn't this hack do that?

Regards,
Rand

[FWC]

Originally posted by Rand
Can someone please point me in the direction of where the hack is posted?

I don't know much about it because I haven't installed it, but here's the hack:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=36899

[Rand]

Thanks FWC,

I'm not a VB owner, yet, so I can't look at or use the hack. Is there a separate discussion thread about the posted hack? (Besides this one...)

I just tried email responding to a thread I started on the Pre-Sales Questions Forum, but it hasn't posted yet. Still think this would be an excellent feature if it works as I imagine.

Thanks again,
Rand

[TECK]

Rand, you need to be licensed in order to get any hack.
purchase VB, then you will gain control of all the vB.org features, by entering your license information.