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

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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 emails to be auto-generated even when block_auto_generated_emails is enabled in Site Settings
  • allows finding related posts by Message-ID even when find_related_post_with_key is enabled in Site Settings
  • always uses the email cook method for incoming emails (currently all incoming emails use the regular cook method which interprets Markdown)
  • prevents sending of rejection emails (we don’t want to annoy any mailinglist users when Discourse rejects an email for whatever reason)
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