Help me - Want to post into forums using email
Friends,
I am trying hard to develop a forum where my users can post via Email. I have installed phpbb on my site and found tool called mail2forum.com but it only works with phpbb2 ( not phpbb3). I searched on Drupal and found following information
http://mydrupal.com/post_in_forums_via_email
http://drupal.org/node/40777
But I think it would only work with built-in Drupal forums (?) which I read are not as feature rich as phpbb3 and not have good looking front end. My main requirments are to have clean front end and ability to post attachments in forum.
I dont know if Drupal built-in forums support attachments ? Also (as said above), I read that Drupal forums doesnt have great look n feel, so, I searched about following module which enhances Drupal forums ( http://drupal.org/project/advanced_forum) but now I am not sure it would allow me post into forums using steps explained at http://drupal.org/node/40777
Is their any way I can integrate listhandler and mailhandler with phpbb on Drupal?? I know there are some bridges which would interaget Drupal with phpbb but again not sure if this would allow me to integrate listhandler/mailhandler as explained at http://drupal.org/node/40777
Please suggest what would be best option for me. Any other way do to this ?
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drupal fourms aren't as feature rich as phpbb out of the box. You extend drupal forums as you extend phpbb forums. With addon modules. The same holds true with themeing the "look and feel" of forums in drupal. you theme it as you would any other part of drupal.
I'm no expert with bridging two separate scripts. I did play with that idea a few times years ago but the idea never really made sense to me. If one wants a forum centric site, its probably better to use a forum script like phpbb and it's addons. If you want a CMS, then use one of the scripts that handle content management.
with regards to mail and drupal investigate the mail2web.module in the downloads area. I've not tested it but it may be what you are after.
Theres a similar module
Theres a similar module available for Drupal also called Mailhandler
http://drupal.org/project/mailhandler
Hope that helps :)