Emailing Posts?

No, and it is not possible to do it only with a mod

But what is the point  to post without seeing the forum? Sounds like shooting in the dark to me.

Oh, that one.

I'm not so sure.

I'll tell you what you'd have to do on a *NIX system

1. Write a script that would parse an incoming email for the address, a username/password pair, the text and the forum ID where to put that text in.
Then connect to the database, check the User ID and permissions, then stuff everything to the appropriate place.(ie the right tables in the database)

2. Set up an alias for sendmail/postfix for a specific mail user that will pipe all incoming mails to the above mentioned script

3. Set up a virtual user in sendmail/postfix connected to the alias in 2.

4. Hope that everything works fine.

Short version:
No, I don't think it can be dome easily.

This can be done quite simply but on a large board it could cause considerable email traffic.

Open post.php and go to line 287 (or around there)

Change

if ($cur_subscriber['notify_with_post'] == '0')
pun_mail($cur_subscriber['email'], $notification_emails[$cur_subscriber['language']][0], $notification_emails[$cur_subscriber['language']][1]);

to

if ($cur_subscriber['notify_with_post'] == '0')
pun_mail($cur_subscriber['email'], $notification_emails[$cur_subscriber['language']][0], $notification_emails[$cur_subscriber['language']][3]);

If I am not completely wrong that should do the trick but I haven't tested.

But

is what I call the definition of a mailing list.
A forum is web based, has to be or it's not a forum.
I mean, how to you want to access this board by email anyway?
All you could do is wait for new posts to come or send an email to the server from time to time.

And the first part is already possible, just subscribe everywhere.

As alastc pointed out what you are looking for is a newsgroup, one that looks nice maybe.

But in order to receive emails and sort them accordingly this board would need so many extra lines of code, plus every board owner would need root access to the server or have a very kind host.

That brings up another topic:
How do you want to authenticate posts sent by email or by a form sent through an email program?
Every time you send a post this way you would end up on the website tat will ask for your username/password....

Or you allow posts by unauthenticated users. in this case your board will have 10.000 posts within a day I'm sure

One of the scenarios where posting to a thread via email would be extremely useful is for (volunteer) moderators who work disconnected from the web. The ability for these type of users to respond to posts using an OFFLINE email client (for example while commuting to/from work) and then have their replies sent when they reconnect to the web would be greatly appreciated.

Malcolm

Looks good - thanks, hcgtv!

Thanks to Max for developing the mod and to the DokuWiki developer list that inspired him to write it.