I’d like for people to be able to reach the staff group of my Discourse installation via e-mail without the need to sign up first. A helpdesk solution seems a bit excessive, but a shared inbox in the way that group messages work should be just enough. However, the option to set a custom incoming e-m…

We have a group called “team” for this purpose. https://meta.discourse.org/groups/team There may be admins who are not part of the Discourse team for various reasons; that’s why.

Not really, other than being explicit about intention.

Are you saying that the automatic groups are not intended to be used in this manner? I suppose I could make do with creating a group named “staff2” or the like and use that, but I expected there to be another solution for this use case, given this topic: [image] Discourse as…

[image] codinghorror: There may be admins who are not part of the Discourse team for various reasons; that’s why. I understand the reasoning to be that since the group “staff” is managed automatically, and there is the possibility that I might grant moderator or administrator access to someon…

How can I set a support group like “team” to receive and reply for incoming e-mails? I want to reply to e-mails within the Discourse.

Setting an incoming e-mail address for the staff group

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) June 9, 2019, 4:06pm 7

Have a look at Configuring incoming email to create new topics or group messages

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Setting an incoming e-mail address for the staff group

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