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Email Participation patch [message #11150]

Thu, 19 June 2003 18:43

mal0rd

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This patch (relative to the latest CVS) adds a link next to subscribe that says "participate via email". It works like a subscription, except when a user is participating via email they receive all the forums posts with bodies, without exception.

This patch also makes the subscription link and the new link always visible, even for unregistered users.

This patch makes the "From" header for emails show the userid and email of the poster, unless they specify to have it hidden.

This patch makes the subject line of the emails more compact.

This patch makes the message-id and list-id more standard looking.

This patch changes the way send_email addresses users. Because we don't want to reveal everybody's email address, I changed it to use Bcc headers instead of To.

Attachment: fud_emailpart.patch.bz2
(Size: 9.33KB, Downloaded 1295 times)

[Updated on: Mon, 07 July 2003 18:18]

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Re: Email Participation patch [message #11157 is a reply to message #11150]

Thu, 19 June 2003 20:45

joshmccormack

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Sounds very interesting. Does this basically make participation in the forum possible the standard way and as a mailing list?

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Re: Email Participation patch [message #11159 is a reply to message #11157]

Thu, 19 June 2003 21:55

mal0rd

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I've implemented half of a MLM: messages can be received via email.

Being able to post via email could work with a few slight modifications. (1) The Reply-To header would need to be set to something that is delivered via the maillist.php script. (2) The maillist.php script would need to understand the new types of Message-Id's I'm using. (3) It would only work well if it didn't require the administator to setup a MLM entry in the control panel and if things like the extra HTML, unsubscribe links, and subject tags from the emails were removed automatically. I don't even know if it's a good idea to implement this half of a MLM, because the posting page of FUD has more power then a text-only email client, like allowing prettier quoting. plus the maillist.php script is kind of a hack, requiring odd permissions on files and such.

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Re: Email Participation patch [message #11251 is a reply to message #11159]

Tue, 24 June 2003 20:12

joshmccormack

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Maybe just adding a link to the bottom of each message users would receive by email that would say "Respond to this message" could take them to a web based response page. That would be sufficient integration of web and email for me, and should be pretty easy to do, no? I can definitely see what you mean about the interface and capabilities. This looks like a word processor or something, with all the options!

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Re: Email Participation patch [message #11253 is a reply to message #11251]

Tue, 24 June 2003 22:38

mal0rd

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The emails already have a "Reply" link, so I believe that would suit your needs. It's the method I prefer.

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Re: Email Participation patch [message #11506 is a reply to message #11150]

Wed, 02 July 2003 19:28

joshmccormack

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I've installed 2.5 and downloaded and unpacked this patch. How do I install it?

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Re: Email Participation patch [message #11507 is a reply to message #11506]

Wed, 02 July 2003 20:13

mal0rd

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With the patch utility. Normally it's "patch -p0 < the.patch" in unix.

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Re: Email Participation patch [message #11509 is a reply to message #11150]

Wed, 02 July 2003 20:26

joshmccormack

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Thanks for the help.

First, I went into Vim and changed the directories to point to mine.
:%s@/home/devin/public_html/fud_data/@/home/travelersdiary/www/forum/@g
:%s@fud21_install/install/forum_data/@home/travelersdiary/www/forum/@g

Then I ran the command and got these results:

west39:~/www/forum$ patch -p0 < fud.patch
patching file `/home/travelersdiary/www/forum/sql/mysql/fud_forum_emailpart.tbl'
patching file `/home/travelersdiary/www/forum/sql/pgsql/fud_forum_emailpart.tbl'
patching file `/home/travelersdiary/www/forum/src/forum_notify.inc.t'
patching file `/home/travelersdiary/www/forum/src/iemail.inc.t'
patching file `/home/travelersdiary/www/forum/src/imsg_edt.inc.t'
patching file `/home/travelersdiary/www/forum/src/subscribed.php.t'
patching file `/home/travelersdiary/www/forum/src/thread_view_common.inc.t'

However, I'm not getting a participate through email button next to subscribe. I tried logging out and in and reloading. Am I doing something wrong?

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Re: Email Participation patch [message #11556 is a reply to message #11509]

Mon, 07 July 2003 12:24

Ilia

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You probably need to modify the template where you want to link to appear manually, since no templates are affected by the patch you've applied and don't forget to rebuild the theme once you are done.

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Re: Email Participation patch [message #11579 is a reply to message #11509]

Mon, 07 July 2003 18:23

mal0rd

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Wow, I feel like an idiot. That patch was grossly incomplete. I don't know what happened, but I've updated it so it should work now. It's still patched against the latest version of CVS. I also fixed it so you don't need to start up an editor to change the filenames.

Please accept my apologies. I'd really like to see this patch incorporated into Fud. Is that likely to happen anytime?

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Re: Email Participation patch [message #11594 is a reply to message #11579]

Wed, 09 July 2003 13:28

Ilia

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It is possible parts of the patch will make it into the default distribution, but when I do not yet know.

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Re: Email Participation patch [message #11629 is a reply to message #11579]

Wed, 09 July 2003 16:45

joshmccormack

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Thanks for all the hard work. I ran the patch but am still not seeing a change. Do I need to do something directly to the template?

http://www.travelersdiary.com/forum/index.php?t=thread&frm_id=1&rid =2&S=4d168b400d5cc6387959fc67e16795cd

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Re: Email Participation patch [message #11630 is a reply to message #11629]

Wed, 09 July 2003 17:31

mal0rd

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I went to your site, and you are correct, the patch does not appear to have effected anything.

But I looked at the patch and it should definitially be effecting your theme. Please try this. If it doesn't work if you gave me better access to your machine then I could try to debug the problem.

1.) Download the latest CVS for Fud Forum.
2.) While sitting the the top level directory of the CVS checkout, run `patch -p0 < PATH_TO_PATCH_FILE`
3.) Follow the directions in README to install fud forum. Make sure you use the Default theme.

The only thing I can think of is you need to rebuild your theme.

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Re: Email Participation patch [message #11680 is a reply to message #11630]

Fri, 11 July 2003 20:32

joshmccormack

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My fault, I wasn't installing from the CVS build. I'll do so when I find some time. I'd gladly give you access to my machine, but that's too generous of you. Your hack is very exciting and I look forward to getting it to work!

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Re: Email Participation patch [message #11840 is a reply to message #11680]

Fri, 18 July 2003 16:37

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Finally getting around to it - where can you download the latest CVS build?

Josh

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Re: Email Participation patch [message #11843 is a reply to message #11840]

Fri, 18 July 2003 16:50

Ilia

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The lastest CVS build can be obtained from CVS, for instructions read the sticky thread in FUDforum 2.0 forum.

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Re: Email Participation patch [message #11966 is a reply to message #11150]

Thu, 24 July 2003 02:26

mal0rd

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Updated Patch. Now works with MySQL.

Attachment: fud_emailpart_2.patch.gz
(Size: 7.41KB, Downloaded 1025 times)

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Re: Email Participation patch [message #22411 is a reply to message #11966]

Tue, 01 February 2005 20:49

duncanshannon

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Hrm, this looks very nice.

There was some discussion in the thread about making it part of the features of FUDForum... did that ever happen?

Is the bottom of this thread still the best place to get the code?

thanks

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