Re: Postgres forums ... take 2

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 <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:59, J. Roeleveld <joost(at)antarean(dot)org> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 16 November 2010 10:30:05 Magnus Hagander wrote:
> >> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 03:45, Elliot Chance <elliotchance(at)gmail(dot)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.
>
>
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