Create forum posts from Drupal

Basically yes. However, someone would need to develop this, and developing it will probably take some time.

vB is a really great program and, as much as I joke about everyone should use Drupal's forum, I realize there are sites that really need vB's abilities. So I normally wouldn't butt into a Drupal vB thread to say "Use Drupal". That said, I have to wonder about this one. If you are putting the content in Drupal, anyway, then why use vB? You say for the moderation, but would vB be able to moderate Drupal content? It seems to me that, if you want your content in Drupal, that your effort would be better spent bringing Drupal's moderation up to snuff rather than trying to make vB's moderation control Drupal's content.

Michelle

I have understood the original request that Drupal should just provide the necessary objects (menu + form) to create a forum post in vBulletin, but Drupal should not store this data on its own. I do not think that anything else would make sense...? ;)

Ah, I guess I misunderstood. I thought creating a Drupal content type and posting from the create content page meant he wanted to create nodes. If that's not the case, then nevermind. :)

Michelle

Thanks for all comments. What is my actual problem? I have a real vB forum with vBadvanced portal, it was sufficient for now, but I have several thousand of emails, which I want to incorporate to the forum. First stage is to post all those emails to the forum [database] and I look for some automatic tools, not to copy them individually. In Drupal, mailhandler module can be used for this purpose excellently, but I was not able to find something similar for vBulletin. Plus - it is not difficult to convert vBulletin forum into Drupal [http://drupal.org/project/vbtodrupal]. But the second task is to distribute emails to good structure /subforums - threads/ and for this purpose tools for moderators in vB looks for me more useful than similar tools in Drupal. May be it not true and I will appreciate any advise.

Generally Drupals taxonomy and possibilities to categorized content [and then present it] are great and I would like to use it. The worse alternative is to [somehow?] transfer all forums content back to vB.

@salava: Well, DrupalvB could be enhanced to post new forum topics from Drupal into vBulletin. However, now you sound like you want to have the best of both worlds - vBulletin forums AND Drupal's taxonomy for them - which is not going to work out in the long run. All what DrupalvB could provide is the former; but the latter (duplicating content in Drupal and vBulletin) is definitely a no-go from a architecture perspective.

Thanks for understanding. Posting forum topics from Drupal into vBulletin will be nice.
I will be able to use posting to Drupal via mailhadler and than reposting it into vBulletin on a regular basis, not only as admin forced export/import task.
Of course, I know, that Drupal taxonomy for vBulletin is not realistic or impossible, the only way I can imagine is synchronizing forums [categories/forums/posts/content] in both systems. The better and clear solution will be, of course, more functionalities for Drupal forum, namely bulk moderation options [delete, move, close, merge selected threads]. In such situation, Drupal will be for me more suitable [because of rich taxonomy] than vBulletin.

I am not so familiar with Drupal, may be similar functionalities of Drupal forum are available by some module.

The new (but currently still hidden) 3.x branch of DrupalvB contains pretty extensive export methods for Drupal forum posts, comments, and users. That has been implemented by a client's request, and is only performed as a one-time mass-export operation. However, enhancing the new code to create/update/synchronize forum posts and comments also during regular run-time would basically be possible now.