> > Meaning, the combination of a mailing list and a forum > into one entity, so that members can participate in the discussion > however they like- either on the website by logging in to Community > Engine, or "staying home" and just sending and receiving the messages > via email. >
Well, CE already has e-mail notifications for new posts on Forum topics that you follow. So you'd just have to build in the functionality to reply to a notification e-mail with a topic reply. This isn't terribly hard; you just need a way of identifying both the CE user and the forum topic from looking at the e-mail reply, and you need to make Rails accept incoming e-mail (also a largely solved problem, just Google 'incoming e-mail with Rails') That's functionality that could easily be pulled out into a CE plugin (I'm sure others would love to use it) > I have spoken with the administrator of one site using Community > Engine, and he indicated to me that it would not be difficult to work > with the MySQL database and connect the forums to just about any > mailing list software. But he does seem to indicate that scripts would > have to be written- something he might could help me with, but I don't > know this person well enough to get into that right now. > Well, that's true, but then you're managing both CE and some other mailing list software, and trying to integrate them; yuck. If it were me, I'd just write a CE plugin that adds the ability to reply to a forum topic email-notification by responding to the e-mail. Good luck, Bruno -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CommunityEngine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/communityengine?hl=en.
