The discussion revolves around whether disabling enable_staged_users breaks the ability to accept anonymous incoming emails in a category. downey raises concern that the global setting for staged users affects the per-category option for accepting emails from anonymous users, which previously worked independently. zogstrip clarifies that if enable_staged_users is disabled globally, the per-category anonymous email setting will not function. downey expresses a preference for the two features to remain unlinked, while riking suggests hiding the anonymous email setting when staged users are disabled to avoid confusion.
Sorry to re-open this conversation so soon, but what will this do to the configuration where a category is configured with the “Accept emails from anonymous users with no accounts” option enabled and a value for “Custom incoming email address”? Previously, this would allow non-users to email in to a category. I hope this change didn’t break that …
Any ideas?
PS: In the future it would be nice to leave the discussion open for a little longer than 6 hours after designing and implementing a new feature for follow up questions.
But now we have two UI settings that are tied but without any visual indication.
Personally my preference would be for these two things (staged users and anonymous incoming email) to be unlinked like they were “before”, but it seems like at a minimum the anon email setting should be disabled if the staged users are disabled globally.
