Topic: Post to forum via e-mail
I try to find some mod that posted messages to forum reading email from users and post it into forum
What about it?
Re: Post to forum via e-mail
unless you send an html email w/ a submit button on it, you'll need a specialized smtp server for that.
3 2006-12-11 23:01 (edited by zerok 2006-12-11 23:02)
Re: Post to forum via e-mail
I think I need some address - *@groups.forum.com
or another method to choose forum as one address groups@forum.com and first line or subject - as forum path
I want to parse e-mail from user and post it in forum
4 2006-12-11 23:14 (edited by jlangrock 2006-12-11 23:15)
Re: Post to forum via e-mail
So how would you organize it that a post will be at the right category at the right place and how who who handle the queue so that to makes sense to read a category or is it just something to send post to like a basket ? What will you do with miss addressed posts ?
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Re: Post to forum via e-mail
what smtp server are you going to use to post the reply to the web server? you have authentication to worry about too, besides sending forum and thread, you need to authenticate users who post, so all of that needs to both be sent to the mail recipient and received by your mail server.
Re: Post to forum via e-mail
you ought to use a mailing list system instead
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Re: Post to forum via e-mail
forum can subscribe users on topic
so if I change this module to have right "reply to" and some another as mail password to public (as hach or md5 of password) in body of letter, may be in first line ?
Re: Post to forum via e-mail
MadHatter wrote:
what smtp server are you going to use to post the reply to the web server? you have authentication to worry about too, besides sending forum and thread, you need to authenticate users who post, so all of that needs to both be sent to the mail recipient and received by your mail server.
I want to use perl script to read forum e-mail
I have stand alone server
Re: Post to forum via e-mail
I'm interested in knowing how your vanilla smtp server is going to be smart enough to post a message to a web site.
do tell. you seem to have it all figured out.
Re: Post to forum via e-mail
MadHatter wrote:
I'm interested in knowing how your vanilla smtp server is going to be smart enough to post a message to a web site.
The smtp server in question supposed to support standard unix command aliases, as sendmail/postfix does.
Rewriting original question from zerok:
Is there some working solution for forum posts by email (or at least replies to forum by email) or it should be written from scratch?
Re: Post to forum via e-mail
mdounin wrote:
MadHatter wrote:I'm interested in knowing how your vanilla smtp server is going to be smart enough to post a message to a web site.
The smtp server in question supposed to support standard unix command aliases, as sendmail/postfix does.
Rewriting original question from zerok:
Is there some working solution for forum posts by email (or at least replies to forum by email) or it should be written from scratch?
what does sendmail/postfix command aliases have to do with opening up a socket, formatting the output of an email into http and sending that data to the punbb webserver when an email has been received?
you may have better luck connecting to the database directly and inserting the records there as opposed to interfacing the website UI.
Re: Post to forum via e-mail
MadHatter wrote:
mdounin wrote:MadHatter wrote:I'm interested in knowing how your vanilla smtp server is going to be smart enough to post a message to a web site.
The smtp server in question supposed to support standard unix command aliases, as sendmail/postfix does.
Rewriting original question from zerok:
Is there some working solution for forum posts by email (or at least replies to forum by email) or it should be written from scratch?
what does sendmail/postfix command aliases have to do with opening up a socket, formatting the output of an email into http and sending that data to the punbb webserver when an email has been received?
you may have better luck connecting to the database directly and inserting the records there as opposed to interfacing the website UI.
sendmail postfix open perl script (or php script) and send as pipe a message from user (e-mail message),
php script parse message deside to add it to mysql base in table of posts in forum what it need.
Re: Post to forum via e-mail
MadHatter wrote:
mdounin wrote:Is there some working solution for forum posts by email (or at least replies to forum by email) or it should be written from scratch?
what does sendmail/postfix command aliases have to do with opening up a socket, formatting the output of an email into http and sending that data to the punbb webserver when an email has been received?
you may have better luck connecting to the database directly and inserting the records there as opposed to interfacing the website UI.
Again: the question is now how this should be done (it's obvious). The question is: is it already done by somebody or not?
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Mail list bridge? http://www.punres.org/files.php?pid=169