a much easier way to do mail then mailing lists
Granted, this only works for announce-type lists, but I thought it's such a time saver for me others might find it helpful too
-Ashen
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Users can then (un)subscribe to that topic as they did on a mailing list.
The disadvantage is that you can end up having some pretty long forum topics meaning space on your disk.
The advantage is the user-friendlyness and the like of a forum, instead of those primitive mailing lists that most linux admins love to use … Also, your users will have no mail files/databases to maintain.
p.s. You can even convert a mailing list to a forum topic … i did it once a long time ago with a php script which i tossed away. There might be some forum mods that do this. See the phpBB mods list.
I've been following it for months and it's very promising…
-j
Mail 2 Forum (or M2F) is an add-on software to the phpBB forum system. M2F combines the functionality of a mailing list system and a phpBB forum in order to add bi-directional 'email to forum' or 'forum to email' communication.
Cheers
MailGust
for many more links, check this out
(i cribbed this page from the m2f forums…)
-j
@mastabog:
If I got you right and you want to simulate a mailling list, then for each mailling list you can create a topic on your forum (phpBB, Invision, etc) for which you subscribe all users, formerly subscribed to the mailing list by using an sql client, (e.g. phpMyAdmin, or the system's sql client).
Users can then (un)subscribe to that topic as they did on a mailing list.
The disadvantage is that you can end up having some pretty long forum topics meaning space on your disk.
He didn't actually mean that. phpBB has a function to make groups called "usergroups", although not a lot of forums make use of it. This forum has one - click on the "Usergroups" link, and you'll see there's one usergroup called "linode-announce", which is basically a mailing list set up in the same way as the original poster said.