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<font face="Century Schoolbook L">Hi all, <br>
Vikas had shared about mail2forum at See <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://bugs.hamaralinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120">http://bugs.hamaralinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120</a><br>
<br>
I have no idea which version of phpBB we are using. Probably we
would be using phpBB3.0.x or 3.1 as there has been lot of
bug-fixes and features that have gone in. phpbb3 was released in
2007 (almost 8 years now), just realized. <br>
<br>
The latest release is of the software is of 'alpha quality' see
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/m2f/files/m2f/2.0.0a5/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/m2f/files/m2f/2.0.0a5/</a> and looks
old. There are couple of versions floating around on github with
the same name which are nothing but dumps of the cvs code. This
is sadly out of tune as it is based on phpbb2 and not phpbb3. <br>
<br>
Why was I thinking about it is expressed best by a certain omarf
in the phpbb Area 51 forum itself :-<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://area51.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=43857&sid=818ace95b0241a891b63056bbe5fe364&start=30#p252551">http://area51.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=43857&sid=818ace95b0241a891b63056bbe5fe364&start=30#p252551</a><br>
<br>
please read that post in its entirety. <br>
<br>
So if we want we could skin the cat in number of ways :-<br>
<br>
a. Understand phpBB internals and hack on the m2f code-base and
make it compatible with our phpbb installation and mail server
(postfix or whatever else that is being used) - probably a
somewhat 3-6 months project either for in-house or get it on
github/gitlab instance . <br>
<br>
b. Dump or convert from the current data from phpbb to phorum.
They apparently have got both the modules working <br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.phorum.org/phorum5/read.php?62,140380,140732">http://www.phorum.org/phorum5/read.php?62,140380,140732</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.phorum.org/phorum5/read.php?62,129244,140394">http://www.phorum.org/phorum5/read.php?62,129244,140394</a><br>
<br>
The only problem with phorum is that it uses MySQL which many
devs. don't like for one reason or other . <br>
<br>
c. Use something like nabble , see <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://forum.openscad.org/">http://forum.openscad.org/</a> as
an example. The only problem is this works best when you have a
single target audience. <br>
<br>
And finally this <br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/DavidIQ/phpBB-MailingList">https://github.com/DavidIQ/phpBB-MailingList</a><br>
<br>
(looks promising a lot) but needs phpBB 3.1.3-RC1 and up. This
would require the newest phpbb3.1 . I do not know which version
of phpBB we have installed but if this works would be cool for us.
<br>
<br>
Look forward to reply. <br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org</pre>
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