Mail2forum

Mail2Forum

Mail2forum allows you to mirror mailinglists into a forum. To do this, Dizkus connects to a pop3 server, usually invoked by cron, fetches mails and stores them in the forum using a given user login.

IMPORTANT: If you use this, make sure that the mailing list does not send a monthly password reminder! This will be mirrored to the forum as well!

Configuration

Base configuration ('Forum wide options'): Toggle Mail2Forum on or off globally.

Configuration per forum

External source: Select Mail2Forum or RSS2Forum here, more configuration options after saving. Zikula-username: Zikula-password: User name and password of the Zikula-user who shall be used as posting user in the forum

Perform Pop3 test after saving: perform a connection test to the pop3 server after storing the onfiguration. No mails will be fetched. Pop3 server: Pop3 port: Pop3 login: Pop3 password: These fields are selfexplanatory imho Rule: not yet used

Usage

Mails will be fetched using the mailcron.php script which usually gets called by a cron job e.g. once per hour. Before you can use this you have to do some changes to this file:

line 37: //
line 38: // store the absolut path to your Zikula folder here
line 39: //
line 40: chdir('/opt/lampp/htdocs/760');

Change the chdir to point to the absolute path to your Zikula installation on your server. There are no changes necessary beyond this point.

Manual usage

http://www.example.com/modules/Dizkus/mailcron.php?debug=1

Connects to the mail server, fetches mails and stores them in the forums. The ?debug=1 shows what the script is doing.