On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:52:25 +0000, Adam McGreggor wrote:
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 06:49:44PM +1100, John Fitzsimons wrote:
Hi Adam,
Are there currently *any* web forum(s) that enable forum/mailman mirroring ? In other words a Mailman email going to a web forum and vica versa ?
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The Wordpress thingy turns email -> database record(s), from which it ought to be moderately easy to map those fields to appropriate ones for the forum.
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Well, there are a few "issues" here. I am totally unfamiliar with how Wordpress works, I wouldn't know how/where to map anything, I don't have root access to the hosting site that has my Mailman install.
Those three items make things a bit difficult. :-(
I can't really think of a way to maintain an up-to date email thread in a forum, allowing posting to both; although, an afterthought may be
Well, it has been done a number of times. With a number of forums. The trouble is that upgrading forums generally stops things working and/or one needs root access to install. Something not everyone has.
Here is an example IF one wants to pay the huge cost of their software..
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=151222
to use NNTP for both... but that's quite perverse.
I would prefer to/from NNTP. Think I might start a new thread for that.
(Do forum softwares still support NNTP feeds, or does one need to use "RSS" or "XML" or one of those other new-fangled things to import content?)
Others may have better 'solutions'.
Thanks for your comments.
Regards, John.