I'd really like the option to have Mailhandler lookup which OGs an incoming e-mail address's user belongs to, and if only one, to post to that group. Ideally, some sort of graceful fallback option to either a public post or an "every group I'm a member of" if user is not member of a single group.

Another, more manual way to do this would be to associate user e-mail addresses with a "default mailhandler post OG".

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rbkemp’s picture

rbkemp commented

The mail2og module is designed to handle such a feature: specifically submitting to a particular OG. Check the open issues before you install.

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Project: Mailhandler » Mail to OG
Version: 6.x-1.8 » 6.x-1.x-dev
Component: Miscellaneous » Code

Yeah, this really belongs over there.

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tobias commented

Thanks Randy and Greggles - there seems to be alot of interest in this mail2og module, but development has halted on it and I for one have been unable to reach the maintainer. As it is now it does not work.

Randy, maybe you and I should talk again about coming up with a recipe for getting posting to groups by email working properly, and pooling some resources to get this done.

Thanks,

Tobias

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obrienmd commented

I'd be happy to help w/ testing, etc - I have significant virtual server resources available, but no real coding know-how.

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jludwig commented
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

obrienmd: Did you want what this module does (automatic group selection based on email's 'to' header) or did you want it to automatically choose a group based on the from header? If it's the second, it's possible in the future if there is more interest but right now I really can't think of a good use case for that.

I'm going to close this as works as designed unless someone wants 'from' to be taken into account for emails sent to a mailhandler address that isn't associated with a group's mail2og field.