Date   : Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:16:25 +0000
From   : samwise@... (samwise)
Subject: Retro Software site launch

> How do I get posts to the forum to come to my email inbox, and how
>  do I post to the forum via email?

Umm ... you can't atm.

There is a mod for PHPBB3 being worked on called Mail2forum
[http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=603719] which
seems to be aiming for this kind of functionality.

Unfortunately, it's still early in the development stage as PHPBB3
only went gold a few months ago.

The problem is, it's pretty complex trying to integrate a web forum
with email - for example, given how easy it is to spoof email
addresses, it would be virtually impossible to validate whether an
email actually came from the user they claimed to be.

There is another mod which I'm waiting to reach a stable release that
we'll likely install - it will allow you to use an RSS feed reader to
monitor new posts to the forum.  If you're

To be honest, you're the first person to ask for an email interface.
I think it will take quite a long time before the Mail2forum mod is
anywhere close to a stable release ...

Is web access a real problem for you?  I believe Firefox is freely
available for Risc OS and would allow you to post to the forum over
the web and, when we launch the RSS module in the future, it can
notify you when new posts have been made in particular forums.

Sam.