Posted by boabjohn on April 16, 2009 at 4:21am
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| Project: | Mail Comment |
| Version: | 6.x-1.x-dev |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | closed (fixed) |
Issue Summary
G'Day Jose, DevSeed, and M2W team,
Great module, of course, and thanks for unleashing into the drupalverse. Could I please clarify a usecase?
Most of my sites are non-profit, community-of-practice spaces for sharing and caring. Despite the great vibe though, people somehow want to have private conversations, and no one wants to mess with purely web-based forums.
So M2W seems like a great solution, except I can't see how to configure/administer more than *one* mailbox+forum combination??
What I'm looking for is the configuration array that allows me to declare:
"this mailbox" parses to "this forum"
"that mailbox" parses to "that forum"
And so on... I'm dealing with 20+ group forums x a dozen sites...what to do??
Cheers from the monsoonal south,
JB
Comments
#1
JB,
I have similar use cases to yours - I have one site with about 20 groups and they all have their own Mailhandler mailbox - BUT that is only for creating an original group post from an email. I only use one Mail2Web mailbox to handle ALL the replies. Mail2Web should not really need any special config settings to handle this use case since it includes the required node/threading info in the header as well as puts a back-up MessageID in the footer of the email. Have you tried using Mail2Web with just one mailbox? Mail2Web should be smart enough to place the email replies in the right forum thread.
R,
Coby
#2
Thanks for the engagement: I've had to pull out the M2W approach because of this issue.
The problem is that each of the groups will have a different email-based list. Imagine a normal Mailman style install where there are 20 lists, each with an admin interface, mail-based subscribe/unsubscribe etc... there are lots of good reasons for using a robust email list management environment....that's not the debate.
But this whole set of conversations is *in a relationship with* the OG spaces (contacts, calendars, documents, and CONVERSATIONS) that are run through Drupal.
So what I was imagining is that M2W would allow me to create a reference table that connects OG Forum A with mailbox AA, Forum B with mailbox BB, etc.
In this scenario, M2W's built-in threading doesn't do the trick, yes?
#3
#4
Switch to mailcomment project. Mail2web is now known as "mailcomment" due to a trademark issue with the name mail2web.