Admin Interface and capabilities

[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:

Using Discourse instead of an email mailing list

This topic explains the advantages of using Discourse over traditional email mailing lists for group conversations and community management. Required user level: All users Discourse is a modern platform designed for group conversations that offers significant advantages over traditional email mailing lists. While email remains effective for one-on-one or small group communications, Discourse excels at handling larger, ongoing discussions. Here’s why you shoul…

Mirroring a read-only mailing list in Discourse

This guide explains how to create a read-only mirror of a mailing list using Discourse. It covers the necessary site settings, category configuration, and subscription process. Required user level: Administrator Discourse can function as an archive for a mailing list while allowing registered users to utilize most of its features. This guide will walk you through the process of setting up your own mailing list mirror. See this in our action on the Ru…

Configure direct-delivery incoming email for self-hosted sites with Mail-Receiver

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…

Migrate a mailing list to Discourse (mbox, Listserv, Google Groups, etc)

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.