Admin Interface and capabilities

[JasonGlazer]

I’m thinking about transitioning a set of Mailman mailing lists to use Discourse and I would like to understand the capabilities of the administrative side of Discourse. I could not find much documentation on it. Am I missing it? If detailed documentation does not exist, would it possible to get some screen shots?

[Stephen]

It’s not an uncommon scenario, in fact all of these questions have been answered before.

I would recommend using the search or checking out howto - it has a lot of information on the various aspects of Discourse including migrating from and behaving as a mailing list. These topics in particular may interest:

Discourse vs Email & Mailing lists

Continuing the discussion from Discourse vs. email – Pros & Cons: Comments welcome! When should we use Discourse instead of plain email or a mailing list? Discourse excels at group conversations. Email is still great for 1-to-1 and 1-to-a-few exchanges. But when these conversations attract even more people and go on for a extended period of time, email chains become increasingly unwieldy. Mailing lists were invented to remedy these issues, but it was a bit like trying to build better horse…

Creating a read-only mailing list mirror

This guide describes how you can use Discourse for creating a read-only mirror of a mailing list. Discourse acts as an archive for the mailing list and allows registered users to use most of its features. Do you want to see it in action? Take a look at our mirror of the Ruby-Talk mailing list. Are you ready to setup your own mailing list mirror? Here we go! The following guide uses two email addresses as placeholders. You need to replace them with your actual addresses. …

Direct-delivery incoming email for self-hosted sites

Discourse is all about enabling civilized discussion. While plenty of people like a web interface, e-mail is still the “hub” of many people’s online lives. That’s why sending e-mail is so important, and when you’re sending e-mail, you really want to be able to receive it, too. There are several reasons why: If e-mails “bounce” (they can’t be delivered for some reason), you need to know about that. Repeatedly sending e-mails that bounce will get your e-mails flagged as spam. Receiving e-ma…

Importing / migrating mailing lists (mbox, Listserv, Google Groups, emails, ...)

This guide is for you if you want to migrate a mailing list to Discourse. It also contains instructions for importing messages from [image] Google Groups. 1. Importing using Docker container This is the recommended way for importing content from your mailing lists into Discourse. 1.1. Installing Discourse The import script most likely won’t work on systems with less than 4GB of RAM. Recommended are 8GB of RAM or more. You can scale back the RAM usage after the import if you like. …

as a starting point.

Although nothing beats practical experience. A $5 DigitalOcean droplet will let you build an instance and explore the software options and configuration yourself.

[JasonGlazer]

Thanks for the resources. I was hoping that there was a comprehensive description of all the administrative features of Discourse. Installing it is a fairly big lift for someone just investigating at this point. Thanks again!

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