Dear friends,
I initially sent this from a non-subscribed e-mail account, so.....
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Dear Judy,
Hi! Deja vu, eh? I know we reviewed this issue of e-mail-to-forum-to-email on our Community Networking list. This is still the only reference to anyone trying to build that functionality into an Open Source product that I know of. And I don't know more information than can be found on their site about when they'll be out of Beta. So, like you, I'd welcome news of other better, potentially easier software solutions.
You raise an important additional issue, though, around volunteers and Open Source. I'd say most Open Source solutions do require a bit more attention to the details of installation than do commercial packages installed through an Install Shield wizard (or something similar). It often is not THAT difficult, but you do have to go into PHP files, or do other customized editing of files. That in itself can feel a little iffy to the novice ;-), but feels better when it all works right. But....you also need some memory or record of what changes you made and to which files if you want to make modifications, upgrades or fixes in the future. And I think that is also the rub. Volunteers are most likely part-time and what one volunteer starts another finishes. The only partial solution I can think of at the moment is to encourage a culture of documentation where volunteers keep a physical or e-notebook for each piece of software regarding what they did to which files, as a kind of helpful history and reference for others.
Other ideas?
In Peace, K.
Judy Hallman wrote:
Kevin Rocap wrote:
That said....there is a module add-in for PHPBB (PHP Bulletin Board) called "M2F" designed to crack the nut of "e-mail to forum" and "forum to e-mail" communication. The project web page, FYI:
http://m2f.sourceforge.net/
I'm anxious to try M2F but don't want to be on the bleeding edge. Our System Admins are volunteers with limited time to help RTPnet. It looks like M2F is still in Beta. Does anyone know when we can expect an official release?
Also, it looks like this is a Mod to phpBB. We recently did an emergency upgrade of phpBB and lost the two mods we had on it. It took quite a while to install those mods. I'm worried about asking the System Admins to install mods that take a lot of time and have to be reinstalled after an upgrade.
Judy Hallman ([EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.rtpnet.org/hallman) Executive Director, RTPnet, NC (http://www.RTPnet.org/)
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