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

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-email-in-be-used-to-ingest-a-mailing-list/74096
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [15 בנובמבר,‏ 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")
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### Author: ![gerhard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/gerhard/32/119479_2.png) [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [15 בנובמבר,‏ 2017,‏ 12:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-email-in-be-used-to-ingest-a-mailing-list/74096/3 "2017-11-15T12:10:02Z")

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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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