# Can Email-In be used to "ingest" a mailing list? **URL:** \ **Category:** Product Support\ **Created:** [15 Novembre 2017, 11:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-email-in-be-used-to-ingest-a-mailing-list/74096 "2017-11-15T11:26:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![david](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/david/32/157490_2.png) [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)\ **Post date:** [15 Novembre 2017, 11:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-email-in-be-used-to-ingest-a-mailing-list/74096/2 "2017-11-15T11:45:16Z")
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](mailto:mailing-list@example.com)”. - Temporarily enabled “staged users” so that an account would automatically be created without a confirmation email - We set up a category “mailing list archive” on Discourse, and set the incoming email address to “[forum-archive@forum.example.com](mailto:forum-archive@forum.example.com)” - We added “[forum-archive@forum.example.com](mailto:forum-archive@forum.example.com)” as a recipient of the mailing list - When an email was sent, a staged user was created on Discourse with the email address “[mailing-list@example.com](mailto:mailing-list@example.com)”. We then changed the profile pic & username on the user as needed - Disabled “staged users” We actually did this for 5-6 different mailing lists, so we have a number of “archive” categories on the forum. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-email-in-be-used-to-ingest-a-mailing-list/74096)._