# MOSS Roadmap - Mailing lists
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/moss-roadmap-mailing-lists/36432
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [08.Декабрь.2015 17:37:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moss-roadmap-mailing-lists/36432 "2015-12-08T17:37:27Z")
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [23.Декабрь.2015 20:24:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moss-roadmap-mailing-lists/36432/15 "2015-12-23T20:24:32Z")
I had a recipe back in the day for doing this by importing mailman-generated mbox archives into fudforum. It worked incredibly well, just as you describe. A quick google search turmed up an oldish stackoverflow topic about it that explains it reasonably well.
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I also am very interested in the staged users concept - is this discussed anywhere in any detail already on meta? Saw a mention of it in the below topic but when I tested it a few weeks back I saw no sign of staged users or an explanation of how it would work.
> [@Discourse as a private email support portal](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-as-a-private-email-support-portal/34444):
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> Purpose We would like to set it up so Discourse can act as a private email support portal for a team. In this mode a single email address will be mapped to a category, all incoming mail will create new messages in that category that can be viewed by all the users with permission on the category. Users will be automatically provisioned as emails come in. Advantages over central email box Historically we have used a central email box for our team “support” this has proven to have quite a few draw…
Seems to me that, if staged accounts were to work, then we’re not far away from making this happen. w00t!
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