mahara-contributors team mailing list archive

[Aaron Wells <775342@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1249895 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1249895

Thanks for the tip Roberto!

Since commenting on this last February, I have become aware that Mahara
already has a fully functional email VERP system, which is used in its
optional bounced-email detection system. My vague plan was to expand
this to handle forum & journal post-by-email.

Some sort of mailman integration is an intriguing direction to go in as
well, though. Certainly for a high-volume site that would be an
attractive option, because it could ship out all the problems of dealing
with a high-volume mailing list, to mailman. We've certainly encountered
some problems with high-membership forums, on some of the bigger Mahara
sites.

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mahara
Contributors, which is subscribed to Mahara.
Matching subscriptions: Subscription for all Mahara Contributors -- please ask on #mahara-dev or mahara.org forum before editing or unsubscribing it!
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/775342

Title:
  Allow users to send emails to discussion forums

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  The discussion thread for this feature wish is at
  http://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=3484

  Here are the initial two postings:
  Hello,

  Is it possible for a forum to also act as a mailinglist? Meaning that
  the user can participate in a forum through their email client as well
  as on the Mahara site itself (similar to Google or Yahoo Groups).  I
  know that my participation is likely to be higher if a reply doesn't
  reqiure logging into Maraha each time there is a new post to a forum.

  Thanks,

  Mike

  =========

  I have the exact same question. However I don't think currently that
  is possible, but would be a great feature for a future Mahara version.

  As administrator I receive several replies to the forum messages as
  direct email messages instead as forum messages, despite the "Please
  do not reply to this message" warning at the bottom of each forum
  messge, that seems nobody reads.

  I agree that users participation may be increased with the mailinglist
  <--> forum feature.

  Regards, Roberto.

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/775342/+subscriptions