forum/mailing list integration

  • Not sure which category this post should go to so “everything else” maybe.

    I’m looking to have a forum/mailing-list two-way integration. That is:

    – If a user emails to a mailing list address, that email becomes a new thread on the forum too.
    – If someone posted on the forum, it becomes a new email in the mailing list sent to all subscribers.
    – The threads are kept (reply to a forum OR reply to an email result in the same threaded view in both forum and email clients).

    Of course, I went around to search into the plugin repository but most findings are considering email as a special use-case not linked to a forum.

    The reason I’m asking is that I have an existing mailing list with a few dozen people and we are happy with it until we realised that emails are censored in China – websites are censored too but at least you know what you can’t read, where emails talking about the origination of coronavirus just disappear from INBOX. Asking everyone to use Gmail would solve the problem but few use Gmail in China as only censored mail providers are allowed. Most people use emails provided by Tencent if at all.

    Thanks!

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  • Thread Starter zhangweiwu

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    One of the plugins I researched is Mailing Group Listserv
    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wp-mailing-group/

    Seems to me it is one-way sync – the pro version offers access to archives, which should be a read-only forum. I was expecting some kind of set-up on the email server, e.g. Amazon SES which allows you to code what actions to happen when someone post to the email address. But it seems this one requires a mailbox and uses IMAP/POP3 to access it to learn if there are new emails.

    This will be my default choice then if there are no two-way sync products.

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