Mirror mailing list with moderation

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A user, Horus, wants to mirror a mailing list with moderation on a Discourse forum. Specifically, they have two requirements:

  1. They want to send all incoming emails to a moderation queue, as some emails are not intended for the general audience.
  2. They would like all incoming emails to appear as forum posts from the same user.

Gerhard provides suggestions for both requirements. For the first, they propose restricting the category to staff members and manually moving reviewed topics to a public, read-only category. For the second, they suggest either using the same sender for all emails or changing the post owner during moderation.

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Hello,

I would like to mirror a mailing list. I read Mirroring a read-only mailing list in Discourse, but have some questions and special requirements.

The list is mainly an announcement list and I want forum users allow to reply to postings, without these replies get through to the list. No problem so far.

  1. However, some of the mails are not intended for the greater audience. Is it possible to send all incoming mails to a moderation queue? (need to have for us)

  2. Is it possible to have all incoming mails appear as forum posts from the same user? (nice to have)

Best Thanks!

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You could restrict the category used as mailing list mirror to staff members, and move the topics to a public, read-only category manually after a moderator reviewed the topic.

Either make sure that all emails sent to the mailing list have the same sender or change the post owner in Discourse during the moderation step.