I am looking to build a archive for a mailing list. I imagine a thread to become a topic, email addresses being replaced with usernames if a matching account exists. Can the Email-In feature be used to “ingest” a mailing list this way?

I do this on my forum. The key requirement is that all emails arriving from your mailing list have a consistent from address. From memory, the rough process we followed was: We have a mailman list on another server which sends email from "mailing-list@example.com ". Temporarily enabled “staged …

It works, but you’ll need to change a few email related site settings for this to work. But, I’m currently working on a feature that will allow you to configure a category as a mailinglist mirror, which will make things a lot easier and more secure. The new category setting allows incoming email…

Right now, I’m struggling with the Email-In feature with a mailman mailing list. I’ve set up an email account as a subscriber to the mailing list, and the Discourse category checks that address. But everything is rejecting. Can this new feature be set to check for “ list@domain.com ” as a recipient …

You need to make the following configuration changes if you want it to work right now: Site Settings enable reply by email enabled enable email in disable find related post with key depending on your mailinglist, disable block auto generated emails Category set the Custom incoming email ad…

a solution to ingest and transit an existing mailman installation would really be a VERY interesting solution for a lot of people who kept their stuff with mailing for the last decade(s) and stayed mostly because there is no good transition method. (but many are unhappy, especially since lists scar…

[Bild] adorfer: ingest and transit an existing mailman installation There is already an MBOX importer. I seem to remember that mailman’s storage format isn’t quite MBOX compliant, but you can certainly convert it to MBOX easily. Then follow the instructions here: [Bild] …

This may be a good solution for many of the people involved in discourse and/or ruby for a while. But for starters “condering” if the like such a migration, this might be a barrier. off course it’s feasable, but a more “multi step web ui importer” would be an even more attractive solution. Especi…

@gerhard It looks like the feature you were talking about in Can Email-In be used to "ingest" a mailing list? has landed (there is now a “Category mirrors a mailing list” tick box on the category). Does this change the list of things to set in Can Email-In be used to "ingest" a mailing list? ?

Yes, that feature has landed. You can read more about it in Creating a read-only mailing list mirror .

Can Email-In be used to "ingest" a mailing list?

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gerhard (Gerhard Schlager) 5. August 2019 um 09:34 10

Ja, dieses Feature ist jetzt verfügbar. Weitere Informationen findest du unter Mirroring a read-only mailing list in Discourse.

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Can Email-In be used to "ingest" a mailing list?

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