nightshade Posted December 1, 2006 Posted December 1, 2006 I admit, I'm a bit green. Here's what I want to do, and I was hoping that you could tell me whether it's possible. Currently, I am running a mailing list on Yahoo Groups, which I want to replace with a message board/forum if I can figure out just what the heck I'm looking for. Here's the path I want to go. 1-I want to create a post 2-It gets emailed to my team (right now there are 9) 3-They reply via email with their project details, etc. 4-It uploads into the forum threads 5-If I make any updates to the thread, it goes out to the team. Any help you could provide would be great ... and if you'd like to chat, my Yahoo IM is gothic_ladynightshade. Thanks- Nightshade Quote
TCH-Andy Posted December 2, 2006 Posted December 2, 2006 Welcome to the forums nightshade Most are of the forums will do the bulk of what you want to do (whenever you create a post, or update a thread, you can set the forum up to email them all). However, forums are generally not updated by emails, so you will not be able to get their email replies automatically added to the thread in a standard forum. Some of the CMS (content management systems) allow this. Unless anyone else has any good ideas of a forum that will do it all. Quote
TCH-MikeM Posted December 3, 2006 Posted December 3, 2006 Welcome! Basically what you're looking for is a "Post By E-mail" hack/addon for forum software. Something like this existed a long time ago for vBulletin (back in 2002), but I can't seem to find it anymore. If it still existed, it probably hasn't been maintained in quite awhile anyway. I found some mentions of a modification for phpBB that does something like this on google, but I think it was more of a "proof of concept" thing instead of an actual, working hack. You might have to just pick a forum software, and pay someone to create such a modification for you. Freelance coders aren't that hard to find, and most major forum software organizations have sub-forums on their sites to help you find such people (I know vBulletin does). Most forums will allow people to subscribe to an entire forum and they'll get e-mail alerts when threads are created and/or updated in those forums, so that part is covered. Personally I think the e-mail posting thing defeats the purpose of having a forum. Quote
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