The Belenix Forum section provides a forum based frontend to the community mailing list of the Belenix Distribution. Posts and threads are sync'ed between the mailing list and this forum.

Here's how it works:

Once you register, you can create a new a forum topic. When you do so, it will get emailed to belenix-discuss@opensolaris.org. Even replies to forum topic will get emailed, thus creating threads at the mailing list. An hourly cronjob runs which fetches email from an IMAP email account subscribed to the belenix-disuss@opensolaris.org mailing list, so vice versa, when a new email is received at belenix-discuss mailing list, a forum topic or comment is created (depending upon the subject), with authorship of the the person "From" which the email has come. If the user doesn't exist on the website, it will automatically be created by Drupal. If that person tries to register at the website later, he will be told that a user already exists with that email address, so in that case he will have to "request new password" to access the account. mail@belenix.org is subscribed to belenix-discuss@opensolaris.org for mail retrieval and sending to create the bridge. All mails from the forum will have a From field like <user's email address> <mail@belenix.org>. This is an advantage-cum-necassity as this will allow a user who is registered at the website but not the mailing list (though you subscribe to the mailing list from the website too) to post to the list (as the mail will be sent from mail@belenix.org, which is subscribed). This is the best that can be done as we don't have direct access to the list's mailman admin interface. All attachments on the forum will appear as links to those files at the website in the emails and vice versa. The belenix-discuss signature will automatically be stripped off when the messages appear on the forum. "Re: , AW:,FWD:,fwd:,[belenix-discuss]" will be stripped from the topic as well.

Note that only mails posted as of the time of creation of the bridge, 06:00 PM (IST) July 5th 2007, will appear on the forum. To see any previous messages, you should go to the belenix-discuss mailing list archives.