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49 lines
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## App Setup
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Acting like a Mailing list is disabled per default in Discourse. This guide shows you through the way to enable and configure it.
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## Admin UI Setup
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First of, you need a POP3s enabled server receiving your email. Then make sure to enable "reply_by_email_enabled" and configured the server appropriately in your Admin-Settings under "Email":
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Once that is in place, you can enable the "email_in"-feature globally in the same email-section. If you provide another "email_in_address" all emails arriving in the inbox to that address will be handeled and posted to the "email_in_category" (defaults to "uncategorised"). For spam protection only users of a high trust level can post via email per default. You can change this via the "email_in_min_trust" setting.
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### Per category email address
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Once "email_in" is enabled globally a new configuration option appears in your category settings dialog allowing you to specify an email-address for that category. Emails going to the previously configured inbox to that email-address will be posted in this category instead of the default configuration. **Attention** User-Permissions and the minimum trust levels still apply.
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Additionally, by checking the "accept non-user emails"-checkbox in the category settings, emails to the given email but from unknown email-addresses will be posted in the category by the System-User in a quoted fashion, showing the original email-address and content in the quotes.
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### Troubleshooting
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You might want to allow users to opt-in to receive all posts via email with the option on the bottom:
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As there is no way to enforce subject lines, you might want to lower minimum topic length, too
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And as some emails may have the same subject, allow duplicate titles might be another option you want to look at
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## Suggested User Preferences
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## FAQ
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**Q: Why is this needed?**
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>A: No matter how good a forum is, sometimes members need to ask a question and all they have is their mail client.
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**Q: What if a message is received from an email address which doesn't belong to an approved, registered user?**
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>A: It will be rejected, and a notification email sent to the moderator. Check your POP mailbox to see the rejected email content.
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**Q: Who did this?**
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>A: @therealx, @yesthatallen and @ligthyear
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