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 w…

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 set…

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

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 wo…

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

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

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) September 14, 2023, 3:15pm 2

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

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