Mailing List Mode and Email Addresses Discussion Summary
tobiaseigen is seeking a way to allow users in their community to see each other’s email addresses in emails, similar to a mailing list or Google Group. However, codinghorror points out that this is not possible due to email protection and privacy concerns.
As an alternative, Silvanus suggests that users can add their public email address to their name, but this may not fully address the issue.
tarek mentions a plugin that can expose the sender’s email address and allow “reply all” functionality, which has worked for their group as a replacement for GNU/Mailman.
sam acknowledges the desire for a simple communication mode, but notes that exposing all emails to everyone introduces other problems and is uncertain if Discourse will ever have a “completely public” email mode.
Hi all - I am struggling with something and not immediately finding a post about it here on meta. I have a community I am setting up where everyone has mailing list mode turned on by default. They’d like to be able to see each other’s email addresses in the emails, like a mailing list or a google group, so they can reply directly to each other. Is there not a setting for this somewhere?
Also, can someone please remind me if there is a reason to use a different email address for the notification email and the reply-by-email address?
Emails are protected, so that’s not possible. There was some discussion about adding a “PM this user” option to the emails in another topic, but direct discovery and display of other people’s emails? That’d be a massive privacy breach.
I get the underlying desire here to be able to simply rip out mailman in some places and put Discourse exposing all emails to everyone like they are on mailman.
It simplifies some modes of communications. It introduces other problems as well.
I am not sure if we will end up ever shipping a “your email address is completely public” mode for Discourse.