Hi Folks -

I was wondering if someone could help me out with this one.

I am looking for a forum package that would work something similar to Yahoo Groups, where the information can be reached in a forum like this one, AND it will also send out the messages similar to a mailing list.

Thanks for any pointers you can provide....


Steve

It sounds like what you need is not a forum, but portal. You can check out phpnuke, postnuke (spin-out of phhnuke), ezpublish, and some others. Some of them have integration with other forum software, for example, phpnuke will integrate phpbb2.

Peter

I never use YG so I don't know what they do but basing on what you want I think you can use any forum, just add some modifications to make your forum also send post's content to a mailing list at the same time it write to the database.

it depends how you want the mail to be sent, most forums allow you to email all members, which you could turn into a newsletter i guess.
I know YabbSE has this function, VB has everything so i guess that does 2, i dont think invisionboard has it and im not sure about phpbb

Originally posted by ckpeter
It sounds like what you need is not a forum, but portal. You can check out phpnuke, postnuke (spin-out of phhnuke), ezpublish, and some others. Some of them have integration with other forum software, for example, phpnuke will integrate phpbb2.

Peter

I actually have postnuke running on 2 systems, and I love it, although just integrating with phpbb won't do what I want. I'd want phpbb to actually do the management of the forum information...

Thanks!

Steve

Originally posted by tazd9t9
it depends how you want the mail to be sent, most forums allow you to email all members, which you could turn into a newsletter i guess.
I know YabbSE has this function, VB has everything so i guess that does 2, i dont think invisionboard has it and im not sure about phpbb

That's an interesting idea. I'll take a look, because I believe phpbb will allow you to mail all members. Don't know if it will do exactly what I want, but it might at least give me a starting point.

Thanks,

Steve

from what i can gather...you are looking for a mailing list proggy with a web accessible archive, no?
if so, look around at HotScripts (http://www.hotscripts.com), they are bound to have what you're looking for :)

Originally posted by tagalaxy.net
from what i can gather...you are looking for a mailing list proggy with a web accessible archive, no?
if so, look around at HotScripts (http://www.hotscripts.com), they are bound to have what you're looking for :)

Oh yeah, good idea. Forgot about hotscripts! Thanks!

On thing, is that they need to be able to post from the web as well, not just access the archive...


Steve