[ma3ry]

I’ve had a YahooGroup for the past ten years. I’d like to convert it to a new website that I’m developing at https://christiangayschat.com. I’m just getting started with BuddyPress and bbPress and don’t know if what I would like to do is possible, preferably with a nice easy plugin. 😉

With the YahooGroups my members can write back and forth without ever going to the website. They just use the YahooGroups email address for our specific group.

Is this something that could be done with the forums? i.e. Could we use both the forums on the website and direct email for all those who are subscribed to that specific group?

Many thanks!

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,

About 2 weeks ago the same thing came up again. You can find it here: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/post-by-email-social-media-integration/

Adding replies FROM email is not built into bbPress and I’m not aware of any immediate plans to implement it. Of course when somebody creates a topic and or a reply, any person subscribed is getting the email with a direct link to the topic. Just hitting that link you can start replying.

Pascal.

[Robkk]

I’ve had a YahooGroup for the past ten years. I’d like to convert it to a new website

Importing from yahoogroups is tricky. There might be hacky ways to do it, but it might be terribly difficult.

[ma3ry]

I don’t want to import from my yahoogroups. I want my members to sign up for the new site so that our membership is current.

I just want the feature of having an email address that will post to the forum subscribers without having to go into the website.

[Robkk]

I don’t want to import from my yahoogroups

Ok

I just want the feature of having an email address that will post to the forum subscribers without having to go into the website.

This is the only post via email plugin for bbPress I think. I am not sure if it does exactly what you are wanting by sending the message to the user they are replying to as I never really tested it out.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-post-via-mail/

[ma3ry]

Many thanks for your input Robkk. It’s the closest thing I’ve found so far. I’ll definitely see if I can work with it while keeping my eyes open for other options.

Thanks again!