[Mailman-Users] Mirror mailing list with web forum

[Tim Walter]

On 17 Apr 2014, at 04:27, Jon 1234 <jon.1234 at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

>> From: Richard at Damon-Family.org
>> I have been (slowly) working on an module to integrate a mailing list to
>> a Drupal web site. My goal is to generate an archive that you can easily
>> find recent messages in, and then be able to reply back to the list via
>> the web site. I will need to look at some of those options to see if any
>> would help in my needs.
> 
> I found Drupal hard enough by itself, let alone integrating it with a mailing list. Good luck.
> 
> I
> finally got FUDforum to work. Without wanting to go into detail here, I
> had to change the shebang line on maillist.php and change the file 
> permissions in the FUDforum/messages folder. Seems simple now! On 
> installation I had other permission errors (host doesn't allow 777 web 
> directories), and other errors may occur in future, but at least I know 
> in principle it works for me.
> 

I have it working with Fudforum and although the fudforum integration was (to me) poorly documented I got it working and has been stable / rock solid for a couple of years now.

It would be nice to get things like membership linked between the two and to more easily identify forum posters (when their mail hits the list) but that is just a comment not a request (unless someone has worked it out!)

BW Tim