Note, this is a feature we really want to get to. “Forward long email chain to Discourse and have it untangle it, staging users and creating multiple replies”, unfortunately it is a devilishly hard problem. We hope to make some progress here in the next 12 months.
Revisiting this, I’m often finding myself part of email chains that would do much better in Discourse. Is this still on the radar (clearly IMAP didn’t fly).
Parsing them correctly would be jolly difficult. I’ve done the odd one myself manually, which is doable but tricky (especially with time).
I do wonder if a semi-automated process / plugin would do the job quite nicely. I’m thinking:
Title / Category
A date / time picker
A user selector which allows creation of staged users
Post text that can be copied in
The ability to add as many replies as needed with the same stuff
This then generates a topic / replies (without notifications) as a done deal.