I’ve searched Google and can’t find anything directly speaking to this question/idea. I would really like to use Discourse for Gmail. Think- email for discourse in reverse. Lots of people want to be able to reply to a topic directly from their Gmail account. What I’d like to do is the opposite. I w…

This might be what you’re looking for [image] IMAP support for group inboxes megaphoneAnnouncements rotating_light We are removing support for IMAP in Discourse. See this post for details IMAP support for group inboxes - #39 by martin . rotating_light We are …

That post has lots of scary “Alpha - we aren’t actively supporting this” messages on it. This might be more up your alley: [image] SMTP support for group inboxes megaphoneAnnouncements We are pleased to announce support for using SMTP to send outbound group e…

But SMTP only allows outbound capabilities. Afaik, one needs to configure both smtp & imap for email sync to work in both directions.

[image] itsbhanusharma: But SMTP only allows outbound capabilities If you read SMTP support for group inboxes carefully, you’ll see that it also covers incoming mail from the same account. I’m not quite sure how (whether IMAP or POP3) as they don’t specify details on that side of things, but …

That’s exactly how it works – the incoming email forwarded from the SMTP account goes to the group, and when email notifications are sent from that group inbox, they are sent via the same SMTP account. This does not handle full syncing like IMAP (e.g. labels, archiving/unarchiving, deleting) but it …

Is it possible to use Discourse for e-mail?

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itsbhanusharma (Bhanu Sharma) September 9, 2021, 5:59am 2

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Is it possible to use Discourse for e-mail?

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