Hi, Something isn't going right: http://forums.postgresql.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=96 Contains 2 issues. I participated in both, but my reply to the second issue is not included in the forum. If you need me to show you the emails or whatever, just ask.
btw: great stuff! :) Cheers, WBL On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net>wrote: > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:59, J. Roeleveld <jo...@antarean.org> wrote: > > On Tuesday 16 November 2010 10:30:05 Magnus Hagander wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 03:45, Elliot Chance <elliotcha...@gmail.com> > 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@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general > -- "Patriotism is the conviction that your country is superior to all others because you were born in it." -- George Bernard Shaw
