As far as I know, PHPbb doesn't do email round-tripping (putting email replies back on the site), but something like https://postmarkapp.com or http://context.io could help that integration if necessary. I've tried doing email integration manually before, and it's one of those things where you can get 90% of the way in no time at all, and then (since email implementations are so varied and so horrible), the remaining 10% will kill you :P.
As Fabien pointed out, we've had the forums since 2005, so I suspect that most of the people reading this largely prefer the mailing list (in other words, we've had the choice for years, and we've chosen not to use the forums). The question is whether to respect that or force the communities together. If there's a clear benefit to doing so, then we should probably just get it over with. If nothing else, it should be a boost to the phpbb development community ;). If on the other hand merging the communities is out of nothing more than a desire for neatness (not saying it is), then we should probably just set up Mailman or Lamson or whatever and carry on as if nothing happened. I used to run a moderately sized (hundreds of users) mailing list and transitioned it to a moderately sized (thousands of users) forum. The biggest difference I saw was that with a mailing list, everyone sees everything; it's self-limiting (and limited). With a forum, people tend to specialise into sub-forums as the amount of traffic grows, becoming less cohesive but allowing for a lot more growth. It also seemed that mailing list and forum had very different tones - the format and delivery of the discussion have an effect on the kind of discussion that's had. This isn't necessarily a bad thing - more people get actively involved in discussions on forums than they did on mailing lists, where they'd usually just lurk. It means more work for moderators to keep everything on topic, but it also means that there's more involvement from the wider community. On 26 Mar 2013, at 09:15, David Buchmann <da...@liip.ch> wrote: > can phpbb also handle answering to emails? sort of like github or jira, > where an answer email creates a new comment on the issue... > > then i think we could take this as a chance to re-unite the forum and > mailinglist communities. > > if it won't be possible to answer by email, we either need somebody to > build such a plugin or find something else imho. > > cheers,david > > > Am 26.03.2013 08:45, schrieb Bob den Otter: >> PHPBB supports sending emails "out of the box". Both for threads you've >> posted in as well as forums/threads you've subscribed to. Not that i'm >> saying it's the best way to go, just to let you know that this isn't a >> big reason _not_ to choose it. >> >> Personally, i'd think a Stack Overflow or Discourse site would work great. >> >> Cheers, Bob. >> >> Op dinsdag 26 maart 2013 07:52:00 UTC+1 schreef Fabien Potencier het >> volgende: >> >> Hi all, >> >> Unfortunately and for no reasons, the Symfony2 mailing-list is gone for >> the second time in a very short period of time. It happened some weeks >> ago and I was not able to contact anyone about the issue. The >> mailing-list came back and still not a single email from Google about >> what happened. >> >> So, I think it's time to move on. We cannot be hostages of Google for >> our support and our knowledge base. There are several options to >> replace >> the Google mailing-lists and I want to get your opinion on the best one >> to choose before doing anything (the decision will probably also impact >> all my other mailing-lists on Google - Swiftmailer, Silex, Twig, ...): >> >> * A - Migrate all the discussions on the Symfony forum >> (forum.symfony-project.org <http://forum.symfony-project.org>). >> >> * Pros: it's online since 2005, it has a massive amount of >> registered >> people, we already have a big archive of knowledge there, it's written >> with phpBB (which uses Symfony and several core team members are also >> part of the Symfony community), it allows us to unify the community, >> which is split right now. >> >> * Cons: Some people don't like forums because they want >> everything to >> happen in an email client (but it might be possible to use phpBB that >> way too). >> >> * B - Host our own mailing-list software and provide the same kind of >> service as Google Groups >> >> * Pros: The disruption won't be big with what we have now. >> >> * Cons: The community will still be split in two, only because of >> some preferences. What kind of software to use? All of them seems old >> and outdated. The only one that looks great is Lamson >> (http://lamsonproject.org/). >> >> * C - Use a more "modern" approach to discussions like the recently >> released Discourse software (http://www.discourse.org/) -- which is >> Open-Source. >> >> Of course, relying on a third-party is not an option anymore. So, stack >> overflow or any other forum/mailing-list providers are not an option. >> >> jQuery chose the first option (A) some time ago and they don't seem to >> regret it. Drupal also uses a forum and no mailing-list as far as I >> know. So, that works. >> >> Zend Framework and many other Open-Source projects hosts their own >> mailing-lists. >> >> My personal preference is either A or B without a clear winner. 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