I have set up our mail server to forward mails to our Discourse using HTTP through the API, and that works. I now want to enable reply_by_email so that users can respond to messages directly. I’m thus trying to enable reply_by_email in the Rails console, but Discourse rejects my request: discours…

I’d start with this part of the response you received: You must enable either manual, POP3 polling or have a custom mail poller enabled before enabling reply by email That makes it sound like maybe you haven’t set up POP3 or mail-receiver before trying this. (You probably want mail-reciever.) I’m …

[이미지] ToddZ: That makes it sound like maybe you haven’t set up POP3 or mail-receiver before trying this. (You probably want mail-reciever.) That is correct - I have set up neither but set up our Postfix mail server to forward emails to Discourse through its API. I’m not sure if that is a sup…

I use mail-receiver myself, so a Postfix+API setup is beyond me, but note that the screen you’re on is a subsection just for “emails that are sent to your members.” The settings I mentioned for reply-by-email are found in Admin → All site settings → Email: [image] (There are a ton of settings in…

Thanks, @ToddZ - I now found the setting, but I can’t enable it an the error message is the same as when I use the Raills console: [image]

Based on the description of what you do and the description of the setting, manual_polling_enabled might be what you are looking for. config/locales/server.en.yml aa94311d9 manual_polling_enabled: "Push emails using the API for email replies." …

The “Manual polling enabled” setting is also found under Admin → All site settings → Email. And since I apparently can’t sleep, I did some digging around and saw precious few cases of people trying to configure email-in via API. In case it’s any use to you as you proceed, here’s what I found: ▶ (bu…

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HansHübner (Hans Hübner) 10월 31, 2025, 10:53오전 8

@ToddZ 그게 도움이 됐어요, 정말 감사합니다!

discourse(prod)> SiteSetting.manual_polling_enabled = true
=> true
discourse(prod)> SiteSetting.reply_by_email_enabled = true
=> true

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