On Fri, 2011-09-23 at 07:47 -0500, dimesio wrote: > Martin Gregorie wrote: > > BTW, I had a look at the phbb website yesterday and don't understand why > > everybody thinks it can't connect to a mailing list when it appears that > > the current version of phpbb has the ability to send posts to an MTA. > > > > So you think it's perfectly fine to let spammers run free on the forum > so long as the mailing list users are protected from it? Because your > suggestion does absolutely nothing to help stop spam on the forum. > Of course not, but one of the stated reasons for shutting down the mailing list was that there was no way of putting a spam filter between phpbb 3.x and the mailing list. I was pointing out that, if I had read the feature list correctly, mail2forum is not needed with phpbb 3.x because it can now send mail directly to an MTA and outlining a way of passing that stream through a spam filter. On closer inspection of phpbb documentation, it appears that I misunderstood that section of the feature list. However there are at least two mailing list bridges being planned: there is an upgrade to mail2forum (now known as m2f), though I don't know how old or active that might be since it only mentions phpbb 2.x, and there's talk on the phpbb site of another project to provide a mailing list bridge to v3.x. > The version of phpbb currently being used does NOT have the capability > of forcing moderation on new users, which pretty much everyone > realizes is the best way to control spam. > Understood. > The current version of phpbb DOES have that capability, > Yes, I saw that too. > but the mail2forum gateway does not work with it. > ...yet, and there may be another bridge along too. Martin
