Hi all, We are using discourse as a replacement to our mailing list system whereby we email to certain email addresses which in turn post to associated categories and then notify the users. http://comms.southsudanngoforum.org/ Unfortunately when you include multiple mailing list recipients in an e…

I am not really following can you provide a more detailed example with specifics?

Thanks for responding Jeff. If I have 2 categories, lets say A and B. A and B are restricted categories and have different users. Using Email-in I want to be able to post something to both category A and B. Currently it is only allowing me to post the message in 1 category, if I include my email in…

This would be considered a duplicate topic in Discourse, and not allowed? Why would you want the same exact content in two categories? Google will also penalize you for duplicate content…

I hope that google doesnt index it as they are non-public categories. Are use case is that we have different users receiving information in different categories and quite often we want to send both of them the same information. A banner topic or tagging would only work for non restricted access th…

Why not create a third category that is visible to both A and B groups ?

Id like to avoid that if at all possible as it would become very messy. To have discourse used as a replacement to mailing lists, not allowing posting to multiple categoreies/lists is a weakness. Is there not a setting somewhere that would allow duplicate posts in multiple categories?

Google doesn’t allow it. That’s the main problem. It’s duplicate content and it’ll be penalized in their index. Particularly if it is on the same domain. How to Specify a Canonical with rel="canonical" and Other Methods | Google Search Central | Documentation | Google for Developers Duplicate…

It does not make any difference if the content is private and not indexed

Does it need to be categories or could you message both groups?

Email-in to multiple categories

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Mittineague (Mittineague) 15 نوفمبر 2015، 7:10ص 5

Maybe a way to have it post to a single category as a Banner topic?

Or maybe Tagging it? (Assuming they’re Watching that Tag)

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Email-in to multiple categories

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