Mailing-list of all new posts in the OpenFOAM forums

pete · June 29, 2009, 08:05

For people who want to receive email copies of all new messages that are posted in the OpenFOAM forums there is a new email functionaility that you can use. The following read-only mailing-lists are available:

OpenFOAM - new posts in all OpenFOAM forums - subscribe openfoam
OpenFOAM News & Announcements - new threads only in the news & annoucements forums - subscribe openfoam-news
OpenFOAM Bugs - new posts only in the bugs forum - subscribe openfoam-bugs

To subscribe to one of these mailing-lists send an email to <majordomo@cfd-online.com> with the line "subscribe openfoam", "subscribe openfoam-news" or "subscribe openfoam-bugs" in the body of the message.

Please note that the mailing-lists are new and we hope that they will work well. However, we might run into similar email performance problems as we had with the old DiscusWare based forum. If we get these problems we will disable the mailing-lists and let the forums run along without this email functionality.

gschaider · June 29, 2009, 15:44

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Originally Posted by pete

OpenFOAM - new posts in all forums that are not about news or bugs - subscribe openfoam

Currently I get Postings to the Bug-Group via the openfoam-bugs AND the openfoam-list. Which doesn't bother me, it's just not according to the description. (I would keep it this way: whoever signed up to the "high-volume" openfoam-list won't mind the extra messages)

Bernhard

pete · June 30, 2009, 03:02

That sounds strange. I just double checked the settings and the bugs forum is only set to forward messages to the openfoam-bugs mailing list, not to the general openfoam mailing-list. I will sign up myself to check.

gschaider · June 30, 2009, 05:58

Quote:

Originally Posted by pete

That sounds strange. I just double checked the settings and the bugs forum is only set to forward messages to the openfoam-bugs mailing list, not to the general openfoam mailing-list. I will sign up myself to check.

For instance this post Typo in User Guide - Please Check I got twice. Once with To: openfoam-bugs@cfd-online.com and once with To: openfoam@cfd-online.com. Don't know about openfoam-news (should this posting go there?)

pete · June 30, 2009, 16:47

Yep, you are correct. I'm subscribed to both lists now and also get dual copies of bug messages. Very strange and I'm confused about how this can occur. I'm sure there is a trivial misstake somewhere that I just need to find. I'll repost when I find the cause. Thanks for the bug report.

lin · July 1, 2009, 10:23

I'm used to this kinds of "bug" now. After I clicked the updated threads of "openfoam",it will also display the threads of "openfoam bugs".

pete · July 2, 2009, 16:10

Now I know what the problem is. The mailing functionality in vBulletin that we are using for the mailing-lists is active for the main OpenFOAM forum and that makes it also active for all sub-forums (bugs and news forums also). The simplest way to change this is to move all threads from the OpenFOAM forum to the OpenFOAM>OpenFOAM forum and turn off postings in OpenFOAM and activate postings in OpenFOAM>OpenFOAM. I'm not sure if this is what we want though.

Perhaps it is better to have one mailing-list (openfoam), which distributes all messages from all OpenFOAM forums, including the bugs and the news forums. Anyone who wants to receive all posts from the other OpenFOAM forums will also likely want the bugs and the news forums. Then we can have two smaller mailing-lists for the bugs and the news forums for those who only want those.

What do you think?

gschaider · July 2, 2009, 16:49

Quote:

Originally Posted by pete

Perhaps it is better to have one mailing-list (openfoam), which distributes all messages from all OpenFOAM forums, including the bugs and the news forums. Anyone who wants to receive all posts from the other OpenFOAM forums will also likely want the bugs and the news forums. Then we can have two smaller mailing-lists for the bugs and the news forums for those who only want those.

What do you think?

I fully agree. Wanting to follow discussions about OF but not know the bugs would be .... strange. Knowing only the bugs might be of interest for people who only maintain but do not work with a OF-installation. Similar reasoning for the News

mattijs · July 2, 2009, 18:38

If they all get sent from the same mailer & header can we still filter on where they come from? I do want to be able to put them into three separate folders.

pete · July 3, 2009, 04:26

The subject contains the sub-forum each message was posted to, so you can filter the emails based on that.

June 29, 2009, 08:05	Mailing-list of all new posts in the OpenFOAM forums	#1
pete Administrator Peter Jones Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 92 Rep Power: 10	For people who want to receive email copies of all new messages that are posted in the OpenFOAM forums there is a new email functionaility that you can use. The following read-only mailing-lists are available: OpenFOAM - new posts in all OpenFOAM forums - subscribe openfoam OpenFOAM News & Announcements - new threads only in the news & annoucements forums - subscribe openfoam-news OpenFOAM Bugs - new posts only in the bugs forum - subscribe openfoam-bugs To subscribe to one of these mailing-lists send an email to <majordomo@cfd-online.com> with the line "subscribe openfoam", "subscribe openfoam-news" or "subscribe openfoam-bugs" in the body of the message. Please note that the mailing-lists are new and we hope that they will work well. However, we might run into similar email performance problems as we had with the old DiscusWare based forum. If we get these problems we will disable the mailing-lists and let the forums run along without this email functionality. Last edited by pete; July 2, 2009 at 16:15. Reason: Edited to reflect the functionality correctly - see the discussion below

July 2, 2009, 16:10	found the problem	#7
pete Administrator Peter Jones Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 92 Rep Power: 10	Now I know what the problem is. The mailing functionality in vBulletin that we are using for the mailing-lists is active for the main OpenFOAM forum and that makes it also active for all sub-forums (bugs and news forums also). The simplest way to change this is to move all threads from the OpenFOAM forum to the OpenFOAM>OpenFOAM forum and turn off postings in OpenFOAM and activate postings in OpenFOAM>OpenFOAM. I'm not sure if this is what we want though. Perhaps it is better to have one mailing-list (openfoam), which distributes all messages from all OpenFOAM forums, including the bugs and the news forums. Anyone who wants to receive all posts from the other OpenFOAM forums will also likely want the bugs and the news forums. Then we can have two smaller mailing-lists for the bugs and the news forums for those who only want those. What do you think?

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June 30, 2009, 03:02		#3
pete Administrator Peter Jones Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 92 Rep Power: 10	That sounds strange. I just double checked the settings and the bugs forum is only set to forward messages to the openfoam-bugs mailing list, not to the general openfoam mailing-list. I will sign up myself to check.

June 30, 2009, 16:47		#5
pete Administrator Peter Jones Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 92 Rep Power: 10	Yep, you are correct. I'm subscribed to both lists now and also get dual copies of bug messages. Very strange and I'm confused about how this can occur. I'm sure there is a trivial misstake somewhere that I just need to find. I'll repost when I find the cause. Thanks for the bug report.

July 1, 2009, 10:23		#6
lin Member Hua Zen Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 79 Rep Power: 2	I'm used to this kinds of "bug" now. After I clicked the updated threads of "openfoam",it will also display the threads of "openfoam bugs".

July 2, 2009, 18:38		#9
mattijs Super Moderator Mattijs Janssens Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 1,345 Rep Power: 8	If they all get sent from the same mailer & header can we still filter on where they come from? I do want to be able to put them into three separate folders.

July 3, 2009, 04:26		#10
pete Administrator Peter Jones Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 92 Rep Power: 10	The subject contains the sub-forum each message was posted to, so you can filter the emails based on that.