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

[michaelm at nnmcc.edu (Michael Maddex)]

This isn't in my line, but my office mate wonders if you've looked at drupal.

    http://www.drupal.org/

HTH

Sarang Gupta said:
> 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 :)
>
> --
> Sincerely, Sarang Gupta (_sarang_@sarangworld.com)
> Backup Emails: saranghome@softhome.net, sarangorama@gmail.com
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Northern New Mexico Community College

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