I recently started a self hosted discourse community site and am learning a bunch but have a long way to go. I was able to sign up for an e-mail list and when I receive an e-mail from the mailing list, it automatically creates a post in a specific category. The title of the post is great, however …

It’s likely the unusual formatting of the email is making the incoming mail processor think large parts of the email are a signature, and are thus getting removed before posting.

[image] codinghorror: the unusual formatting of the email Could you clarify how the incoming mail processor determines the break point? I understand that it is probably a complex algorithm, given the diversity of email formats, but perhaps there are some rules of thumb? Because intuitively I …

It would be good to possibly have an “advanced test” tab in the admin / email UI @zogstrip where you can paste in a raw email and see what gets stripped.

@nbianca can you add that “advanced test” tab in Admin > Emails? “What gets stripped” can be what was “trimmed” and/or “elided” (in the source code, stripped is mostly used for white space, trimmed is used for whatever is removed, elided is used for whatever is hidden behind the ••• in incoming ema…

I started working on this in https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/6699 Here is a little preview: [localhost_admin_email_advanced-test]

Looks good! Is there a way to wrap the text in the preview? Super long lines (and horizontal scrolling) make it hard to process.

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nbianca (Bianca) Décembre 5, 2018, 1:55 10

Done

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/6699/commits/42d4d88dec49142f1c74603a1a46247f2d80e555

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Mailto links in Discourse emails are botched Bug	6	1355	Juin 13, 2018
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