[Mailman-Users] Mirror mailing list with web forum

[Tim Walter]

On 18 Apr 2014, at 02:26, Jon 1234 <jon.1234 at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

> > From: tim at yingtong.co.uk
> > Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 00:36:37 +0100
> > ref identity I really mean at present most of the traffic is on the mailing list (and the forum is more of an archive for 80% of the joint community) where users complain they can’t easily identify forum posters as people (its a friendly bunch) as I’ve set it to post to the list as the single subscribed list address. They/I would like to see the forum users name/email address somewhere inside the body text so they can say “Hi Peter, good to hear from you, I think I can answer this one…” I’ve searched within FUDforum for documentation of how to format posts to include posters names etc. to no avail.
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> This seems to work. Go to forum/theme/default/post.php and find the line:
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> if (!empty($r[3])) { // Use the forum's fixed "From:" address.
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> After it add words to the following effect:
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> $body .= "\n-- \nThis message was sent via the web forum by $from"; 
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> You should get a footer along the lines of:
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> This message was sent via the web forum by Name <email address>
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> Which will be followed by the Mailman footer.
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> > In reality for membership intergration between the two I suspect I wouldn’t be first in the queue currently as I have several hundred subscribers both places, with significant overlap between them!
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> > BW TIm
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> If I manage to solve this how about I mention it here but post the detail on the FUDforum website?
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> Best wishes
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> Jon

Hi Jon, brilliant.  Works exactly as it says on the tin.  I’m guessing however it will be overwritten with the next patch, but I can live with that.  In this life I am a user rather than a contributor I’m afraid, is there a way of putting that at the top such as “Tim Walter wrote on the forum…”  

As to the integration I suspect both places seem sensible, I hang out in both.

(Sorry to have slightly hijacked the mailman list for FUDForum stuff, though hopefully moderately relevant.)