On 1/27/06, Rimas Kudelis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can't answer to the forum by e-mail though. Can you?
Most forums, not currently. I think I saw a plugin for one forum software that allowed you to do that though. It would require that the admin set-up a POP3 e-mail account just for the forum, and the forum software would have to check that POP account periodically (with a cron job) and pull the replies into the forum so that it would be visible on the forum and e-mailed to those who subscribed. And if it doesn't exist for your favorite forum software, I'm sure with as large an open-source community we have (and many forums have), someone (or many people) could be persuaded to build one. The basic logic of the plugin would be: 1. Check POP3 Account 2. Use subject of e-mail as subject of post, and body of e-mail as body of post. Reformat e-mail body so that it would look right in the forum (most forums store posts as html in the database). 3. Check the database to see if this is a new topic or a reply to a topic by doing a quick search of the post subjects already on the forum. If the subject of the e-mail matches the subject of an existing thread, it is a reply. 4. Pass the incoming post's information to the forum's function or subroutine that handles new posts or replies on the forum (as if someone had entered it directly on the forum). This would automatically post it on the forum and send out e-mails to those who subscribed to that topic or forum. I think someone has already built a plugin for a popular forum that does this, but if not, as you can see, it wouldn't take much to write such functionality into the forum. Scott M. Stolz http://www.wistex.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
