It's worth noting, Mahara already has a mail-receiving functionality in place! See https://wiki.mahara.org/index.php/Developer_Area/Specifications_in_Development/VERP_Mail_Bounces
Currently it's only used for the (optional & completely undocumented) bounced message handler. But it lays groundwork that could be used for forum posting by email. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mahara Contributors, which is subscribed to Mahara. Matching subscriptions: Subscription for all Mahara Contributors -- please ask on #mahara-dev or mahara.org forum before editing or unsubscribing it! https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1249895 Title: Feature request: Respond to forums and user messages by email Status in Mahara ePortfolio: Confirmed Bug description: It'd be nice to be able to respond to forum posts and user messages by email. Use case: 1. I subscribe to a forum, with "email" notifications 2. Someone posts to the forum. I receive an email with that post 3. In my mail client, I hit "reply" and write a response to their quote, which I send to the default reply address on the message 4. Mahara receives my response email, and puts it as a post in the forum (perhaps with a note at the bottom saying it was posted by email) A similar use case would work for other Activity types as well: - user messages - wall posts - feedback One thing to bear in mind is the security aspect of this. We'd need to incorporate some way to check that the user is who they say they are. Launchpad, for instance, has this functionality ( https://help.launchpad.net/Bugs/EmailInterface ), but they require you to send it from a "trusted sender domain" that uses DKIM. They also require you to PGP-sign your emails if you want to do anything more than post comments. Another thing to think about is how to fit this into Mahara's Plugin system, so that we don't just have a hardcoded list of plugins coded into the incoming mail handler. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1249895/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mahara-contributors Post to : mahara-contributors@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mahara-contributors More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
