Mirrored mailing list is rejecting registered forum users

[Moin]

There is a similar topic about email-in to restricted categories which also only works for staged users.

Category not accepting "anonymous email" from known users

I’m a bit confused by the bug vs. intended behaviour debate. The way I have interpreted it is that for security reasons, creating new topics via email is not permitted if the email address matches an existing non-staged user; this is because email addresses can be spoofed and therefore users could be impersonated. Replies are presumably acceptable because the address includes the reply key, demonstrating that the sender was the recipient of the notification email and is therefore likely the re…