To add to what Drew says, The Forum software also provides a cloaked e-mail interface on the profile pages of members. That is, there is a link to create an e-mail and the forum sends it to the registered e-mail address.
- Dennis -----Original Message----- From: drew [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 14:33 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Oh, let's not forget @openoffice.org too [ ... ] There is the need for the phpBB system to have access to an SMTP server and a single administrative email account. I can give details about that on the intra ML if needed, but it's fairly plane jane stuff. Otherwise when folks register they supply a real email address and the forum software needs to notify them of an action, for example when a response comes to a topic they opened, this real email is used. //drew
