This mod is based off of the Mail Reply modification by Colin F to which I have obtained permission to rewrite and release.
This modification allows you to mimic email lists such as yahoo groups through your forums!
After installing this modification you will have new settings in your forum manager where for each forum you can enable this modification and setup a separate email address to use for each forum that you have this enabled for.
Just like how there is a separate email address for each yahoo group.
After doing so, members can subscribe to each forum that this mod is enabled for to receive notifications for new threads and replies.
Any posts in that forum, will be sent to them via email. (Example email attached below). The users can then reply to that email (which will then be processed and posted to the forums through the cron job that runs every 10 minutes), or they can send a new email to the email address and a brand new thread will be created!
Essentially mimicing an email list! Suddenly those users that hate forums, can still be dragged into the conversations and help keep the forum's activity level up!
BUGS!
These are the known bugs to date:
* Confirmed bug that email processing does not handle Japanese characters.
Unsupported Items
These are the items that are not currently supported:
* Some custom bbcode modifications will not display like they do on the forums in the html emails. Like glow, and the table mod.
TO UPGRADE
* Please see the file in the zip for upgrading!! If your upgrading from version 2.3.X you will need to reverse some file edits that are no longer nessecary!
NEW INSTALL
* See instructions in the zip file.
