How can I export a complete email sent by discourse to a file (eml or msg format)? Background of the question: We are having problems, that discourse invite emails are classified as spam by the receiving email server (of one email provider – for other email providers it works). To debug the issue, …

[תמונה] Simon: I do not see a possibility to download the message as a file. Copy and paste the raw message (headers and body, all of it) into a text file. That’s the same thing.

Hi Simon :wave: If you can retrieve an invite email in your spam folder, or another inbox in which the email wasn’t detected as spam, pretty much any email client has the option to download the message in one of these formats. For example, in Gmail, it would be here to download the email in a .eml …

You might try the logs of your email sending service.

Thanks for your replies! [תמונה] Coin-coin le Canapin: If you can retrieve an invite email in your spam folder, or another inbox in which the email wasn’t detected as spam, pretty much any email client has the option to download the message in one of these formats I’m aware of that, and did …

In order to be able to export sent emails, we would need to keep a copy. I could see the value of a debug setting that logged all outgoing mail. For now, you could point at a local postfix that spooled copies to another directory or bcc:ed them to you.

Thanks for you reply! [תמונה] Michael Brown: In order to be able to export sent emails, we would need to keep a copy. Yes. A simmilar setting to the already existing setting delete email logs after days would probably be sensible to prevent overflowing the disk by deleting the emails itself …

When I needed to do this recently I got the message from mailgun. I imagine other services will let you do this too.

Well, we’re not using any “service”. Just SMTP to a regular mail account (~160 users; <20 post/day).

[תמונה] Simon: Well, we’re not using any “service” You have some SMTP server that is receiving and (maybe not) delivering the email. Do you not have access to those logs? I think that you’d need a plugin or to hack the code inside the container to get it to write those messages to a file, ma…

[תמונה] Jay Pfaffman: You have some SMTP server that is receiving and (maybe not) delivering the email. Do you not have access to those logs? We are not “having”, just “using” the smtp server. :wink: It’s a mail server of an external provider (actually the same provider, who is declining the …

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sjjh (Simon) 8 ביולי,‏ 2023,‏ 5:42pm 5

As it seems not to be possible, I’ll open a feature request: Feature request: export of sent email as file (eml or msg)

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