jbrains is trying to auto-send Around team room notes to a Discourse category via email from no-reply@around.co, but hits a StrangersNotAllowedError. They ask if they can whitelist the email or create a user with it — suspecting the latter would be a spam risk. pfaffman points them to a meta thread on using Discourse as a support ticket system. jbrains finds a guide on configuring incoming email to create topics and considers using a staged user for no-reply@around.co, possibly adjusting trust levels or category thresholds. pfaffman confirms staged users don’t need accounts. jbrains reports success: enabling “Email in”, allowing anonymous emails to “Category X”, and mapping incoming mail to new topics. They thank pfaffman and suggest a more focused doc might help others. pfaffman notes existing docs cover staged users and email-in features. The core solution involves staged users and category permissions — no account creation needed — enabling trusted external emails to post without being blocked.
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.
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.
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:
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.
I think that there is other documentation for staged users and email in.