Allowing email from a stranger because I trust them. How?

Support
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I am trying to automatically send Around team room notes to a category in my Discourse site. I am stuck with StrangersNotAllowedError, because the email comes from no-reply@around.co and there is no user with that email address.

Can I add this email address to an allow list, similar to what I did with the “Autogenerated email” allow list? Do I need to create a user with that email address? Can I? (My guess is no, because that’d be a serious spam issue.)

What are my options?

Thanks.

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See Use Discourse as a Private Support/Ticket System

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I’m still reading, but it looks like “Configure incoming email to create new topics or group messages” in particular describes what I need: to create a staged user for no-reply@around.co and give them permission to create topics by email, presumably by setting their trust level high enough or by setting the trust threshold down to 0 on the category to which they will post.

I’m still reading, but if you already know that I’m already on the wrong path or missing some key ingredient, please tell me.

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Yes. And they don’t even need to have an account at all. That’s what the "staged user"stuff is about.

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I believe I have it working. In short:

  • “Email in” is enabled.
  • Anonymous users are allowed to send email to “Category X”.
  • An incoming email to “Category X” becomes a new topic.

This seems to work. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction. It seems like a more-focused document about this would be helpful. I might write that.

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I think that there is other documentation for staged users and email in.