| Re: Mailman & FUDforum [message #28133 is a reply to message #28067] |
Wed, 12 October 2005 08:26   |
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Thanks David and Ilia. My forum will be moderated so I don't mind trying out the second option also. In that way any one can send their posts for approval for posting on the forum by email.
(1) But still if I use the second option, will I have to add all the forum members as members to my mailman list to receive the posts which are posted on the forum from the forum web interface? I guess I will have to if they have to receive the forums posts by email and be able to reply to them by email.
(2) Another question which arises is that will not the members receive an email twice if it is sent by email to the mailman mailing list address? Let me explain. When someone sends an email to the mailing list, it will be sent to all mailing list subscribers and also it will be piped and posted to the forum. And again the forum will send that same message by email to the mailing list address as it synchronized which leads to everyone receiving the same message twice. Or does FUDforum identify the messages coming in from the mailing list and does not resend them to the mailing list? This means that FUDforum sends only the messages posted through the web to the mailing list. Is my understanding correct on this issue?
(3) How to eliminate all the long long headers which come in a typical mailman list message? I saw a script on this forum which does it when postfix is being used instead of sendmail and I have sendmail. I saw the option of removing the headers and footers in the MLM tab in FUDforum but I can't figure out what commands to add there even after reading the documentation etc.
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Digest subscribers just need to change the subject line and reply. That email will be sent to all the Mailman list subscribers, posted to the forum and added to the digest in the usual way.
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They have change the subject line to what? To the subject of a particular thread? How will the forum know which thread to post their reply to as they are replying to the digest email which contains of messages from so many different threads?
(5) Just a little clarification before I write to my host about how to access the two files. Where exactly should I add these lines in virtusertable and aliases files? On the top, bottom or anywhere in these files? Also if I choose the second option, then will I have to modify only the aliases file and not the virtusertable or I have add in both even for the second option?
(6) Since I am on a shared hosting and if my host agrees to change these files, will it affect the other sites using mailman mailing lists on the same server on which my site is hosted? Or can the changes be done on only my part of configuration files of mailman? Sorry for being such a novice.
(7) I know Ilia does not want to do it, but I really wish FUDforum would have integrated a full-fledged two way mailing list like Mailgust forum has. It would undoubtedly become the best and the most complete forum software in the world. Mailgust is so easy and simple to use with no need to maintain your subscribers in two different places. Any email you send to the forum address gets posted on the forum and all forum members receive it with an unsubscribe link at the bottom. It has moderation too like FUDforum. These emails are quite clean and not like mailiman emails. And the forum members can also reply to that email and it gets posted as a reply to that thread. The only problem is that again Mailgust does not have a daily digest subscription option and those who subscribe will have to receive individual emails but they can reply to them. The other problems with mailgust are that it does not have a RSS feed or a convertor from phpbb or an ability to delete or move posts etc.so it did not serve my purpose fully. So I hope going through this process of adding mailman to FUDforum and have subscribers in both places will solve this problem for me.
Awaiting your kind response and thanks for all the info so far.
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