Belenix.org is now pointing to the new website. Belenix.net and
belenix.comwill also forward to
belenix.org as the google maps API key works with only a single domain.

Thanks to Moinak's help we finally have IMAP working on the server.

Now the forum <-> mailing list bridge between the
belenix-discuss at opensolaris.org and the Belenix.org forum (
http://belenix.org/forum) is completely functional.

Here's how it works:

Once you register, you can create a new a forum topic. When you do so, it
will get emailed to belenix-discuss at opensolaris.org. Even replies to forum
topic will get emailed, thus creating threads at the mailing list. An hourly
cronjob runs which fetches email from an IMAP email account subscribed to
the belenix-disuss at opensolaris.org mailing list, so vice versa, when a new
email is received at belenix-discuss mailing list, a forum topic or comment
is created (depending upon the subject), with authorship of the the person
"From" which the email has come. If the user doesn't exist on the website,
it will automatically be created by Drupal. If that person tries to register
at the website later, he will be told that a user already exists with that
email address, so in that case he will have to "request new password" to
access the account (I will add this piece of information to the 'account
already exists' message so that new users dont get confused).

mail at belenix.org is subscribed to belenix-discuss at opensolaris.org for mail
retrieval and sending to create the bridge.

No, one cannot spam the forum by sending a mail to mail at belenix.org as it is
a google apps account with a filter (list:"belenix-discuss.opensolaris.org")
to label the mails coming from the belenix-discuss mailing list and the
website retrieves mails only of that particular label. If someone spoofs the
mail coming from opensolaris.org, gmail wont accept it anyway.

All mails from the forum will have a From field like this:

<user's email address> <mail at belenix.org>

This is there because we're now using the drupal SMTP module and a google
apps account to send email. It is even necassary as other wise the mail will
be considered spam, so it has to be sent from mail at belenix.org. And another
advantage-cum-necassity is that this will allow a user who is registered at
the website but not the mailing list (though there is an option to allow
that now at http://belenix.org/mailman_manager) to post to the list (as the
mail will be sent from mail at belenix.org which is subscribed). This is the
best that can be done as we don't have direct access to the list's mailman
admin interface.

All attachments on the forum will appear as links to those files at the
website in the emails and vice versa. The belenix-discuss signature will
automatically be scraped off when the messages appear on the forum. "Re: ,
AW:,FWD:,fwd:" will be removed from the topic.

Only new messages (all mails posted as of now) will appear on the forum.

This message would be the first to appear on the forum (in a while).

Angad Singh
http://angadsingh.in
http://blogsT.sun.com/angahd

"The best way to predict future is to invent it"

On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Angad Singh <angad at angadsingh.in> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Moinak Ghosh <moinakg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>   Well I rebuilt PHP5 from the SFW gate with IMAP support via UW-IMAP.
>> After installation I ran up against the white screen of death and fixed it
>> via
>> http://drupal.org/node/277798
>>
>
> IMAP support still isn't there. phpinfo doesn't show it even in the
> 'configure command'.
>
> I can't find IMAP even at /usr/php5/5.2.4/modules. And there is a duplicate
> now at /usr/php5..
>
>>
>>
>> However I had taken a snapshot of the www directory yesterday and
>> callously
>> rolled-back to that screwing something. Looks like
>> modules/drigg/drigg/config_forms.inc is gone. So the page comes up now
>> but with errors.
>
>
> It's working fine. I guess you restored it.
>
>
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