v1.2 Stable Release

v1.2 • Installation • Configuration • Troubleshooting

About

m2f v1.2 is a free and open-source PHP software initially written specifically for phpBB 2.0.x forums. What it does is extend phpBB functionality in order to be able to post new messages on the forum by sending an email to a specially configured mailbox - and also receive new posted messages by email.

m2f is really good at merging communities together where some people dislike forums or rather prefer them over mailing lists. It supports just about every type of content available for phpBB messages, i.e. attachments, templating, smilies, quoting, and so on. We have taken care so that both the email and the forum post look as much alike as possible.

Screenshots: At Sourceforge
There is no demo for the Admin interface but you can check out M2F functionality in our forum (See top navigation bar).

Features

Full PhpBB 2.0.x Integration

Improved security settings that work tightly with PhpBB’s settings (i.e. disabled users’s emails won’t be imported)
Flexible security settings: Import phpBB settings, ignore them, define guest permissions etc.
Subscribe whole board option, or group subscribing, don’t need to subscribe every new member
Message moderation panel. Admin bypass message moderation
Message author can be taken off recipients list so he doesn’t get copy of his own message
Configurable user options for email/attachment format
Full support for PhpBB’s Attachment-mod (By Acyd Burn). Watch attachments being exchanged seamlessly back and forth your mail and forum
Quoting detection

Powerful Email backend

Intelligent hashing mechanism to tag emails and build up conversation threads. M2F will detect if an email is a reply to a forum-generated message and thread properly.
All mails generated by M2F are RFC-complaint, and thus can be threaded in capable mail clients (Thunderbird for example)
Supports smtp, pop, mail(), mbox, gMail and sendmail.
Flexible Pattern Matching Control Panel, used to detect and block spam or filter (search&replace) with regular expressions, i.e. clean up yahoo footers, unwanted signatures, logos and advertising.
Implemented “Simple Cron”, a pseudocron alternative for novice users who have had a hard time configuring cron jobs.
Support for multiple distribution lists (i.e. You can now have multiple distribution lists with only one mailbox + forwarders)
Support for external mailinglists, i.e. Majordomo
HTML email support

Other goodies

Support logging in the database, stop those long hours of permission problems on the logfile
Admin control panel, with more help and feedback
m2f tables are pruned every once in a while in order to keep a low footprint on your database
Just too many configuration paramters to list them!