Dear m2f community,

The m2f development team are delighted to announce the immediate availability of Alpha release 2.0.0a5. This is an alpha-quality build of the forthcoming v2.0 release, which will see the transformation of m2f from a simple phpBB -> email link into a multi-faceted message hub.
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I have the development environment ready, and fixed some bugs in latest trunk SVN repo. All tests are green right now, and test chains working with latest phpBB3. As always, you can take a peek at the SVN commits here: http://mail2forum.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=32

I worked a little on the issues reported (http://tracker.mail2forum.com/projects/m2f/issues) as well, but there’s yet much to analyze.

I updated the roadmap, stripping a lot of functionality that probably will be needed but falls outside the bare-bones but usable alpha I want to release to the public ASAP. Check it out: http://tracker.mail2forum.com/projects/m2f/roadmap and comment in the forum. It still needs some work, but I think it’s a good start.

In all, alpha “4.1″ should be ready for deployment. I’ll wrap it up and publish it in a few days, then start working on the rest of the features of the roadmap.

.pd

Well folks, this is round #999 in the fight to take m2f 2.0 out of the alpha stage. I finally finished my master studies so I will do my best to devote some time to this great project. I’m trying to get George back in touch as well, and see if we can push the development forward.

A lot of time has passed, and there is a considerable amount of work in the setup process of the development environment. I will have to check the libraries and php version conflicts, as well as phpBB3 latest changes. After that, update the roadmap and issue tracker so that it reflects our new goal: To get a bare-bones phpBB3< ->email solution ASAP.
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Things have gone a bit quiet on the m2f front. George is busy with life these months, and I’ve been working hard on my master studies.

Nevertheless, I will try to move the development forward a bit, albeit not with the rigurosity and elegance of George’s software design. Code like hell activated folks! I built a “pda_mess” branch where I’ll start my work.
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Hi everyone. May update? Where is April’s update you may ask?

As you already know, in these open source projects sometimes real life gets in the way, but after almost 9 years of development we can say with confidence that we always return to m2f!

Well, m2f 2.0 is a complex design-focused message hub. Email handling complexity by itself is a big deal, and that is only one (albeit one of the most important) of the channels that m2f 2.0 supports. So, prioritizing is an important part of our development plans, remember we have only one senior developer (George) and one junior developer (me) right now. If you need m2f and can give us a hand (ie. 2-5 hours a week) then be sure to drop us a line – pm GeorgeC or Pda0 on the forum.

The current state of m2f 2.0 already allows for basic chaining of email, phpbb2, phpbb3, feed and other minor channels. Messages get threaded and attachments get processed, in a basic level (For more info read about MIME handling on previous blog posts). In general, the core m2f functionality is there, even though still in a immature state. One of the fun things that you can already do, and wasn’t possible with m2f 1.x, is binding phpbb2 and phpbb3 together (Or two phpbb3 installations together).

So, what’s next. There so many tasks lurking on the tracker, that we need some strategy to slowly crunch each of them. At the moment we have three objectives that drives our development priorities:
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Hi all,

As I’ve been doing a huge amount of work on the email processing feature of m2f 2.0, I’d like some assistance with testing.

The new functionality is in the Email Import channel. In short, it will convert a multipart email (i.e. one in plain text as well as HTML, or an email with attachments) into a single, flat message suitable for using later in an m2f chain.

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We’ve been testing current MIME handling functionality for a while now, and I must say it’s working quite well! But… what the hell is MIME? Read on (Screenshots available!).

After the initial importing of a message, m2f analyzes the message content in order to understand its structure. If the message is being imported from an email channel, that means looking the current format of the message (ie. html, plain text and so on), checking if the email has attachments (normal attachments or inline attachments), etc. The way that emails handle multiple formats and attachments is called MIME Handling. As quoted from wikipedia:

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Hi everyone!

These have been busy days! George is finishing off MIME handling of email messages and building the general architecture that will eventually support full attachment management between channels.

I have been working in the Feed class, adding export functionality and also did some heavy refactoring to get cleaner code. There are still things to be done, in particular the configuration of the channel in the Admin-Cp, but we are almost there.

I would like to tell you a story about what’s involved in building a channel with the current state of the code (alpha 4):
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Here are a number of useful videos to introduce m2f v2.0 alpha 4, released Feb 11th, 2009.

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Dear m2f community,

The m2f development team are delighted to announce the immediate availability of Alpha release 2.0.0a4. This is an alpha-quality build of the forthcoming v2.0 release, which will see the transformation of m2f from a simple phpBB -> email link into a multi-faceted message hub.

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