We use discourse to replace mailing lists. It seems, that if a user sends an email to two categories (e.g. cata@example.tld and catb@example.tld via mail-in to start a new thread, only in the first category cata a new post is made and the post for the second category catb is silently discarded. I would expect, that the post is made to both categories.
Use case: e.g. the canteen wants to inform department A (using cata) and department B (using catb) about the weekly menu.
Which setting do I need to change, to make it work?
Thanks, Simon
I could be very wrong (I don’t know much about Discourse code), but my feeling says it wouldn’t be a simple change, and I believe it’s the first time such a feature has been asked. Every feature started with a first message, though.
I also think it’s an edge case. You can still ask for it, of course.
Sending the same email to multiple email lists is quite common (e.g. to a low-traffic announcement-only list and a high-traffic discussion list) and some people want to replicate that on a forum. I’m sure it’s been mentioned here a few times, though this is the only exact match I found today:
In that case, no one will be expecting to be able to reply to the announcement and have it go to the announcement list and the discussion list, so sending two separate messages, while annoying, doesn’t interfere with the desired behavior.
What I think you’re really asking for is for a topic to be in two categories. (At least I can’t come up with another solution, but maybe I’m missing some clever workaround.) That’s not going to happen.
In that example, the person sending the original email would expect his single email to be sent to both email lists.
I’m not asking for it, but if I were I’d be asking for a simpler solution – for one email to create two entirely separate topics in separate categories.
