Posting via Email Poll

[rhizome]

I hope it's ok to start a poll on this topic, but given the number of views on the other thread about this issue, http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=10166.0
I thought it might be a more useful way to guage opinion of the SMF community

The question is:
Should SMF have a feature which enables users to post messages to forums via email?

The above link discusses this in more detail, and I guess we can continue posting comments there

regards

[Ben_S]

It's been posted lots of times that 1.1 will make it not too hard to do.

[rhizome]

Ok, perhaps the first chioce should read '...please implement now'

[Dannii]

You forgot the option that says "no because it won't be secure unless they log in anyway"

[rhizome]

You forgot the option that says "no because it won't be secure unless they log in anyway"

I think the developers can confirm if this would actually  be the case?  so I didn't want to put it as option as it may be an incorrect assumption

[Ben_S]

Ok, perhaps the first chioce should read '...please implement now'

1.0.x is feature frozen.

[rhizome]

Ok, perhaps the first chioce should read '...please implement now'

1.0.x is feature frozen.

Erm... 'now' as in 'please implement in 1.1' or '... as soon as possible'
LOL - is that any better ?
Else I give up 

[Ben_S]

But I said 1.1 makes it fairly easy to do .

[rhizome]

I'm a tautologist 

[Grudge]

As Ben said SMF 1.1 will at least make this a possibility. I have a little script for 1.1 which will allow you to reply to notifications by email and them appear on the board. The problem is this isn't a secure feature, in that it would be very easy to spoof. This *could* be implemented in a more secure way by logging each message which is sent out and giving it a unique ID - but this would be a strain on large announcement posts etc. Basically 1.1 will allow you to do the basics (With the help of a script), but anything more advanced than a basic security check will require a modification.

[bjones9942]

Personally I'd love to see this 'feature/mod'.  Currently you can use echoforum's software to do it, but they are a pay service, and are still in 'growth mode'.

My site is a service related forum and I'd like to echo various employment postings from other services (specifically craigslist, which can be set to email their posts individually or as a group) to a read-only board.  It would give me the ability to have a 'one stop shopping' kind of forum.

[rhizome]

It's on it's way

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=40848.0

[bjones9942]

Dang ... go away for a couple of months and see what you miss!  Of course I'd be a couple of weeks too late to beta