Re: EMail Replies to the EA forum Reply #45 – March 20, 2023, 03:48:16 am Quote from: Ruth – March 19, 2023, 11:49:03 pmI will never ever activate this feature, I also don't use this feature, but in some cases it might be useful, Steeley has a particular forum with particular members, and if I remember well this was the main feature that he needed for a forum
Re: EMail Replies to the EA forum Reply #46 – March 20, 2023, 01:18:02 pm Quote from: Ruth – March 19, 2023, 11:49:03 pmYou want another reply here, Steeley? I will never ever activate this feature, because I think, members should log in on forum, if they want to communicate with others and take part.No need for another post Ruth - turned out this time my reply email fail-to-post was a one-off (and may well have been related to a "loose nut on my keyboard" - I didn't keep a copy of the reply email to see what, if anything, I might have done wrong, so I can't rule that out). Email participation for my forum was a requirement, since I was porting a yahoo group that was being shut down by the list owner and most of the members participated via email. Also high on the list was the member's ability to opt-in/out of topics (which Yahoo didn't support). ElkArte was the only acceptable platform I could identify. (There was another I spun my wheels on for about 6 months that supposedly directly supported Yahoo groups, but turned out to have a fatal bug that rendered that email function useless, that the developers had no interest in addressing. As it turned out, Yahoo eventually just shut down their whole groups platform so I guess they were prudent in abandoning that support anyway. And since it was a complete bloated CMS system and I only needed a part of it, EA was much simpler to install and configure, thusly much more perfect for my needs).I assume most folks just log in here to see what's going on, maybe prompted by received emailed posts from the platform that they've selected - and mostly I also do that here, but I occasionally do an email reply .. if nothing else it helps keep Spuds on his toes with the ever-changing email protocols..
Re: EMail Replies to the EA forum Reply #47 – March 20, 2023, 08:31:12 pm Quote from: Steeley – March 20, 2023, 01:18:02 pmif nothing else it helps keep Spuds on his toes with the ever-changing email protocolsVery true LOLThe reason ElkArte supports PBE/List server like functionality, is that It was a capability I needed it to transition a Yahoo group to a Forum platform, just like Steeley said. Members would not move if they could not get/reply all via email, it was just what they were used to.I did this many years before Yahoo shut down groups, I think around the time they moved to their Neo? version of groups. I also transitioned a few other Yahoo groups to forums at the end of Yahoo. I will say I lost some brain cells trying to convert Yahoo data to MySql
Re: EMail Replies to the EA forum Reply #48 – March 20, 2023, 11:18:21 pm Quote from: Spuds – March 20, 2023, 08:31:12 pm I will say I lost some brain cells trying to convert Yahoo data to MySqlUm..yea.. I hear ya.. it hurts just thinking what I went through trying to massage the yahoo contents (messages, users, relationships, etc..) into a database format the forum could import and use - finally abandoned the effort, converted 20 years of yahoo messaging repackaged in a db3 container to html (db2html - cool free program) and created an "archive" board with one locked topic - contains a link to the html package on the server.. not the most elegant solution but suffices and allowed my few remaining synapses to cool off. Like radu81 intimated, I had 'other things to do" that I loosely categorize as "life".
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