Re: Easiest way to make inbound email address for forum/subforum?

Posted by mattengland on Oct 10, 2008; 2:37pm
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Easiest-way-to-make-inbound-email-address-for-forum-subforum-tp1312581p1316499.html

(replying via web, for the email-based reply did not appear after 75+
minutes. Sorry for any double posting.)

At 10/9/2008 11:10 PM, Will <Nabble> wrote:
>Nabble can be a fully functional mailing list but it works
>differently.  A conventional mailing list has a fixed email address,
>i.e. [e-mail]. Nabble doesn't have a fixed email address.

It needs one if email-only users want to be able to start a new topic (via inbound emails).

To clarify, I propose to look at it this way:

I publicize a new discussion group (that servers both email and web forum for the same discussion content/topics/threads).  I want to "brand" 2 things:

1) The website link for the (sub)forum, eg: http://mydomain.tld/forums/discussion1
2) The email address for said (sub)forum, eg: [e-mail]

It doesn't seem to make sense to me to say to the email-only users:  "well, if you want to send [new] emails to the list, you have to go subscribe to the forum, then you get your own, private email address that allows you to post [new] topics to the forum."

(Maybe I'm missing something?)

Seems way to confusing for my users.  I just want to give them an email address.  And like I was saying before, I can provide said emailbox for said address, the domain name server, the MX domain, etc... ** I just don't want to have to make a full-fledged email list for each (sub)forum ** if I can avoid it.  Could I possibly spoof http://n2.nabble.com/more/MailingListRequest.jtp into thinking I have an email list when actually I don't, and I all I have is the above?

Now, if users never want to post new topics/start new email threads to an email list, this presumably an issue, for they can simply followup existing topics.  But emailers definitely will want to start new topics.

>Does this make sense? Do you find it strange?

The reply-address-for-each-topic-thread (if that's what you mean?) makes perfect sense to me.  An aside: I find it a great way to match replies with their appropriate topics, especially when different topics have same subjects, etc; 'References:' and the like email headers appear to break in this forum-to-email context for a variety of reasons.)

However, I still see an important need for a one, "public" email address.

fyi, I have yet to see anything where a (sub)forum subscriber gets their own email address for a (sub)forum; all I've seen thus far are email addresses specific to threads.  But this is a bit beside the point.

Thoughts?