On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:59, J. Roeleveld <joost@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tuesday 16 November 2010 10:30:05 Magnus Hagander wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 03:45, Elliot Chance <elliotchance@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > I have made some major changes "beta2" >> >> <snip> >> >> > Extra thoughts; >> > >> > It would not be practical for the forums to create a dummy mailing list >> > email address per person or forum, >> >> Why? It doesn't have to be actual mailboxes, but it needs to be a >> deliverable email address. >> >> The other option is, of course, to send the email using the email >> address the forum user uses to register with the forum. That might >> cause issues with some antispam solutions, but as long as it's done >> right, I think that would work. > > If this is done in cooperation with the list admins, they could whitelist the > forum-server for this? There's actually no way to whitelist a server in mj2. We've tried this for other things, and it just doesn't work. >> > however theres needs to be a robust way to make sure the topics/threads >> > and posts match up with the threads and emails in the mailing list. The >> > problem I see is that replies to the forum are not technically replies >> > via email and so they will not carry the unique "in-reply-to" >> > identifier. >> >> The email generated is a reply via email, and carries a message id. It >> should be perfectly possible to chain those together using >> in-reply-to, as long as all posts are mirrored between the two media. > > I think the only way to correctly mirror these 2 is to use one as the master > and have the other populated by the master. > As the mailing list already exists and is used a lot already, I would think > the following would work: > - user posts on forum, email is generated. When email comes from list, it is > entered into the forum Yes, that's pretty much how it would have to work. -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
