[NMLUG] phpbb + mailman + mail2forum = yahoo groups?

[_sarang_ at sarangworld.com (Sarang Gupta)]

I have a couple of phpbb forums, and would like people to have the ability
to post to these forums via e-mail and receive forum messages via e-mail
if they so choose. In other words, I'm looking for "Yahoo Groups"-like
functionality.

I'm considering installing mailman and mail2forum which, combined with the
phpbb I already have installed, is supposed to do this.

Is this a good/popular solution? Has anyone tried it? Opinions?

Is there a more integrated open-source product that does this? (combining
separate apps to perform a larger task is very Unix-y, but phpbb and
mailman are both fairly complex, so a single app that does both might be
more useful).

I'm not married to phpbb-- my forums are small + I could easily transfer
them to another app. For example, I've heard phorum has mailing list
support built-in, though it doesn't quite seem to do what I want.

I've seen at least a couple of discussion threads that say "It's hard to
believe, but no such open-source product exists", but I don't believe them :)

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Sincerely, Sarang Gupta (_sarang_@sarangworld.com)
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