The “forwarding email” situation in Discourse is a little confusing to me. Here’s what I’m trying to do: I want to forward some emails into a specific Discourse category so that the appropriate people can discuss it. I don’t want the forwarded email to stage any users, or responses to that forwarded email to be send back to the original sender. Let me break that down some more: A Vendor sends a Proposal to my personal email. I forward the Proposal email to the “Vendor proposals” Category on our private Discourse site The handful of users who have access to that Category discuss the Proposal amongst themselves. Once we reach consensus, I reply to the Vendor from my personal email. Is this doable in Discourse?

I think that’s what I advocate here: [image] `enable_forwarded_emails` doesn't behave like conventional email forwarding Feature enable_forwarded_emails is a great feature for bringing existing conversations into Discourse, but for users who approach Discourse with a “Mailman-mind” - as many users on our instance do - this feature just doesn’t do what they’re expecting it to. Within every email client I’ve used, forwarding an email intentionally excludes the original email address from the forward, and subsequent replies. Whereas with this feature, that original email address is included in the created post and subsequen… I haven’t started working on a PR, I’ve got a few other priorities at the moment.

Forwarding emails into Discourse without staging users

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alehandrof (Alex Armstrong) June 13, 2019, 2:04pm 3

Yes, that’s exactly what I’m looking for. Kinda bummed it’s not possible, but you have my vote

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Forwarding emails into Discourse without staging users

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