On Monday, 14 October, 2019 14:18, Warren Young <war...@etr-usa.com> wrote:
>Fossil Forums allow you to subscribe to email notifications. From the >reader’s perspective, it’s really very little different from the current >Mailman based scheme. The preceding paragraph is completely at odds with the following paragraph, and taken together, they are completely illogical and inconsistent. >What Fossil Forums currently does *not* allow is posting or replying via >email. That requires either tight integration with some other SMTP mail >server so that incoming mail can be delivered to the Forum feature for >email address vetting and such, or it requires that Fossil itself has an >SMTP email server built in so it can handle it directly. All it needs is to be able to "read and process" RFC-2822 formatted message files that are found in an "inbound for me" directory, and write RFC-2822 formatted message files into an "outbound from me" directory. There is really nothing inherently difficult about that. What it does is simply read files from the inbound directory and write messages to send to the outbound directory. If it can do these things it can interact with every MTA in existence. This is how e-mail message processors work, and what almost all mailing list processors do (though some are integrated differently because being generic and Keeping It Simple Stupid is apparently not a thing). And yes, there is no reason that the part betwixt reading the inbound and writing the outbound cannot create a "Web Forum" for those so inclined. I think if you go back a couple of dozen years these sort of "gateways" were all the rage. -- The fact that there's a Highway to Hell but only a Stairway to Heaven says a lot about anticipated traffic volume. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
