I am trying to move a group from Mailman to Discourse. Some of the people will want to stay in the old world and only interact with the forum by email. html emails arriving in the forum are usually a mess with parts missing and incorrectly formatted. Those sent as pure ascii are again processed by …

Hey @peteratkins , welcome to the forums! Can you provide some examples of emails that resulted in bad formatting after being imported?

We have a final decision to be made about the setup of the Forum Currently we have a TTP Higher-Ed Mailing List and a K12 Mailing List Initially the plan was/is to move the users from these respective lists into a similarly named Forum category At day one everyone in will be set to ‘watching’ in…

which is not too bad. But looking the other way. The following notification post came from the discourse system and when this was included in a reply (which agreed is not a great idea) the following arrived in the forum

OK I can’t send the one with multiple graphics as your system will not allow me to include the links

sorry can’t send the email as it has multiple links

OK so I will have to resort to words Any line in the html causes everything below it to be removed from the desitination post. Any blank lines between sentences are removed when to you send back an email reply containing information from the notification email where there is a graphic, the person…

You can post HTML as code blocks.

I have put the information together in the attached email gee new users cannot upload attachments! explain how to paste the email into a code block please and I will try that

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Falco (Falco) 18 Agosto 2020, 5:57pm 3

Ciao @peteratkins, benvenuto nei forum!

Puoi fornire alcuni esempi di email che hanno causato una formattazione errata dopo l’importazione?

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