Re: [tsc-devel] Forum <-> mailinglist gateway

Luiji Maryo | Sat, 18 Oct 2014 08:12:49 UTC

I figured you'd be able to just take the name given from the From: field in
the sender and place it in the outgoing mail, such as:

Receiving message contains:
  From: Jack <…k@e…>
  To: …l@l…
Sending message contains:
  From: Jack <…l@l…>
  To: you

And, in the case that …k@e… is not registered in the forum,
expand it to:

  From: Jack (Guest) <…l@.…>

On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 4:00 AM, Quintus <…s@q…> wrote:

> Hm, it appears multipart messages don’t work as expected yet. Will look
> into that.
>
> > I notice that the automailer doesn't specify who sent a given message.
> Will
> > this be changed soon?
>
> That’s hardly possible, because in order to post to the mailinglist, the
> email address has to be subscribed to the mailinglist. The address
> …r@f… _is_ subscribed to the mailinglist
> and hence can post to it. Problems arise when someone who is registered
> on the forum, but not subscribed to the mailinglist, posts into the
> gateway forum. Resolving this would require to forcibly subscribe these
> persons to the mailinglist, maybe even the no-mail version where you
> don’t receive any mail, but somehow it doesn’t feel correct to subscribe
> people behind their back to some ML.
>
> The other way round, people subscribed to the ML who do not have a forum
> account, simply show up as the “Guest” user in the forum, but as the
> email address is prepended to the post, this should not be a problem.
>
> Vale,
> Quintus
>
> Luiji Maryo <…i@u…> writes:
>
> > I notice that the automailer doesn't specify who sent a given message.
> Will
> > this be changed soon?
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Quintus <…s@q…>
> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> > Sidenote: All posts coming from the mailinglist are automatically
> >> > rendered as Markdown on the forum website. So if in your emails to the
> >> > mailinglist you use Syntax like
> >>
> >> To be clear and to prove that answering from the mailinglist works, the
> >> syntax looks like this in plain email of course:
> >>
> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~ ruby
> >> def foo
> >> end
> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >>
> >> That is, in your mails of course you only use one level of tilde
> >> characters.
> >>
> >> Forum markup is handed to the mailinglist as-is.
> >>
> >> Valete,
> >> Quintus
> >>
> >> --
> >> Blog: http://www.quintilianus.eu
> >>
> >> I will reject HTML emails.     | Ich akzeptiere keine HTML-Nachrichten.
> >>                                |
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> >>
> >>
>
> --
> Blog: http://www.quintilianus.eu
>
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