Can I start a new topic by sending an email message?

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

Yes, this is possible, but it requires a bit of configuration:

Configuring incoming email to create new topics or group messages

This guide explains how to configure Discourse to create new topics or group messages from incoming emails. It covers site settings, group configuration, and category settings. Required user level: Administrator Configure incoming email to create new topics or group messages Discourse allows you to send emails to a special address to automatically create new topics in a category or new group messages. This feature is useful for integrating Discourse with ext…