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Sun, 01 May 2011 19:30

grepnold
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I've set up a mailing list rule. Messages sent to my forum 'fred' are going to the address 'fred(at)fred(dot)com'. That's working fine, and if I configured 'fred(at)fred(dot)com' to be a mailing list the messages would go out to all subscribers. So far so good.

I set up mailing lists in two ways. For a small list I can set up a redirect in exim4, like the /etc/aliases type but domain-specific. For large lists I pipe to my own script.

Now, to get replies from subscribers to show in the web forum I understand that I can pipe them to maillist.php.

Where I'm baffled is that there seems to be only one e-mail address associated with a forum by the mailing list rule. So a new forum message will arrive at 'fred(at)fred(dot)com' to be reflected out to my mailing list subscribers. If they want to reply, presumably they reply to 'fred(at)fred(dot)com'.

How can mail to the SAME address go to my mailing list when it originates from the forum, and be piped to maillist.php to be added to the forum when it's a reply from a mail-based user? Yes, I could do this by piping to my own script, but other people are able to send out mew messages to a mailing list and have mailed replied go back to the forum.

I can see I'm missing something here and maybe I'll kick myself when I'm told.

This post fudforum.org/forum/index.php?t=msg&goto=19896&
which I can get to by Google but can't find here seems to suggest the outward messages can be sent out by adding the mailing list address as a dummy user. That would work - except that that user would have to be set up to receive mails for that one forum only. I can't find a way to do this, and in any case the mailing list rule is doing the sending of forum posts already.

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		Mailing lists - desperately confused By: grepnold on Sun, 01 May 2011 19:30
		Re: Mailing lists - desperately confused By: The Witcher on Mon, 02 May 2011 00:42
		Re: Mailing lists - desperately confused By: naudefj on Mon, 02 May 2011 17:05
		Re: Mailing lists - desperately confused By: grepnold on Mon, 02 May 2011 18:01
		Re: Mailing lists - desperately confused By: The Witcher on Mon, 02 May 2011 21:13
		Re: Mailing lists - desperately confused By: naudefj on Tue, 03 May 2011 03:38
		Re: Mailing lists - desperately confused By: grepnold on Fri, 20 May 2011 12:46
		Re: Mailing lists - desperately confused By: grepnold on Fri, 20 May 2011 13:28
		Re: Mailing lists - desperately confused By: grepnold on Sat, 21 May 2011 15:06

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