Forum OpenACS Q&A: Possible to post replies to forum from email client directly?

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1: Possible to post replies to forum from email client directly?
Posted by Nima Mazloumi on 04/13/04 10:28 PM
Hi all,

just a short question. Is it possible to post to a forum by replying to a mail I receive?

When I press reply I get something like the following as recipient:

mailto:notification-5815-925@my.openacs.server.de

Greetings,
Nima

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2: Re: Possible to post replies to forum from email client directly? (response to 1)
Posted by Jade Rubick on 04/13/04 10:35 PM
Yes it is possible. I haven't done it myself though. I believe there are some docs for that lying around somewhere.
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3: Re: Possible to post replies to forum from email client directly? (response to 1)
Posted by Rocael Hernández Rizzardini on 04/13/04 10:40 PM
yes its possible, notifications allows you to do that, and any application that has the proper service contrat well defined should be able to parse / insert the proper data for a given application. Currently, AFAIK only forums supports this. Its supposed to work only with qmail, but I'm pretty sure that it should work with any mailserver that can be configured to use the ~/Maildir directory.
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4: Re: Possible to post replies to forum from email client directly? (response to 1)
Posted by Nima Mazloumi on 04/13/04 10:44 PM
I tried a post of my test server but nothing happened. I have postfix installed on my SuSE Linux
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5: Re: Possible to post replies to forum from email client directly? (response to 1)
Posted by Don Baccus on 04/13/04 11:33 PM
Do you have it configured to use maildirs?