On 4 March 2010 13:00, Adrian Halid <[email protected]> wrote:
> There seems to be a lot more configuration options for PHPBB and feels > more natural to use and what I am used to. > > Does anybody have any recommendations for free .net Forum software that is > also easy to modify and create plugins? > I do not believe anything decent exists on Windows / .NET at all. Everything we looked at had problems one way or the other. The only thing that looked any good was Telligent's Community Server however it is $20K/server/year and to be honest - aside from the ability to reflect a web forum against a mailing list *properly* - it isn't really special. You can have a look at Active Forums for Dot Net Nuke. It is pretty reasonably forum software (not many plugins AFAIK). Just don't be fooled into getting the enterprise edition as the mail connector is brain damaged. > I am also looking at mailing list software. The obvious choice is Mailman > but once again I am looking for something to be hosted on Windows Server. > Forget it. SMTP is dead on Windows and SMTPSVC might as well be abandonware. I busted my chops trying to make this list work on Windows but had to give up in the end. The queue status files are all opaque, logging is useless, it is not very configurable. There is nothing but pain in your future if you go down the SMTPSVC path. > It would be nice if I could find some software that did both mailing list > and forum and were integrated but from reading previous posts I don’t think > the people at ozdotnet could find any. > We found a few - none of it any good. -- David Connors ([email protected]) Software Engineer Codify Pty Ltd - www.codify.com Phone: +61 (7) 3210 6268 | Facsimile: +61 (7) 3210 6269 | Mobile: +61 417 189 363 V-Card: https://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors Address Info: https://www.codify.com/contact
