Show categories in e-mail notifications

Feature
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Wouldn’t the two iOS versions do the same? That would place the share at 44%.

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Mail.app is a desktop product so it’s not really appropriate to lump them together with iOS apps. They all use WebKit rendering but behave differently on the UX side.

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Has there been any update on this?

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I was wondering the same. We are currently testing with the aim of moving our community to Discourse, and this seems to be the only blocker at the moment.

A large percentage of our current users are mailing-list use cases, so they don’t tend to visit the web front end very often, so they would like it in their email so that they can filter appropriately.

Thanks!

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Is there any update on the progress of this?

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This is one of the things we are looking at Mozilla Discourse instance to be able to encourage people move from our mailing lists to Discourse.

There are a lot a people in the community that just want to use their email to follow discussions.

Is there a place to better track this request or know how to bring help to move it forward?

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@eviltrout if this one is relatively straightforward, I say we do it – add the category by default to all emails, if uncategorized just show nothing:

Format would be

[Community Title] [Category] Topic title here

And if uncategorized, then

[Community Title] Topic title here

as before. As for subcatgories I guess

[Community Title] [Category/Subcategory] Topic title here

Let’s make sure PMs are unaffected, PMs should say [PM] as the “category” anyway.

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Checking in to see if this is still on the road map. We have been redirecting more and more of our smaller email lists to Discourse, and as @nukeador says, it’s the One Big Thing that will help people be cope with handle the transition as we look at planning the move for our large lists.

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I’m trying to talk the folks at Canonical into moving some/all of our internal lists to Discourse, and this will almost certainly be a deal breaker. We need an easy way to be able to direct all email notifications from a single category into a single email folder (or tag in gmail). Right now, that’s impossible.

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@techAPJ worked on allowing custom email titles, where is that at? is there a howto?

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The “email subject” can be customized from Admin site settings:

Formatting:

%{optional_re} => Re: (applicable if the post is a Reply)

%{site_name} => [Discourse Meta]

%{optional_pm} => [PM] (applicable if the post is a Personal Message)

%{topic_title} => Show categories in e-mail notifications

Currently showing the category in email subject is not supported but I’m on it, and will create a separate howto for this once this feature is implemented.

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Oh, I was confused a bit, I didn’t realize you were outputting examples for this post, and since the output of %{topic_title} is “Show categories in e-mail notifications”, for a second, I thought the feature was actually done.

Let me know if there’s anything I can do to help, getting that done ASAP would be super helpful, since the anvil’s already hot over at Canonical…

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“Subject format for standard emails.”

^^^ That is terrible. Can you look at amending that so it either explains all the magic or links to a meta topic that explains that.

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Sent a PR for this feature:

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Notwithstanding the ambiguous “Subject format for standard emails” tip beneath the text field, this is still a bit ambiguous.

It would seem that %{site_name}, %{optional_re}, and %{topic_title} do not include square brackets but %{optional_pm} does. Is that correct? And what about the new (as of yet undocumented) %{optional_cat}? And are spaces not necessary?

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Just posted a howto for this feature:

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Hey @nukeador, has anyone had a chance to try out the new notifications on https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/ yet? It’s working pretty well for us so far and just wanted to follow up with at least one other group of mailing list users.

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Yes, we are using it right now and it’s working great :smiley:

Next improvement would be to have also better email headers for Lists so clients would be able to identify messages as coming from a mailing list.

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FWIW, there is a site setting email custom headers that we’ve added the following:

Auto-Submitted: auto-generated|Precedence: list|List-Id: <FROM-ADDRESS.example.org>|List-Unsubscribe: <https://site.example.org.org/user_preferences>

Where FROM-ADDRESS.example.org corresponds to our fromaddress@example.org that emails are sent from. Granted, that causes all Discourse notifications to have the same List-Id, but it’s good enough for filters if you add in the subject line. It’d be nice if there were a way to have different headers for reply notifications, such as Auto-Submitted: auto-replied, but maybe that will come in time.

We also took the site name out of the email subject, i.e.:

%{optional_re}%{optional_pm}%{optional_cat}%{topic_title}

… which makes it look pretty much like a traditional mailing list subject line.

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The email headers already include these list meta fields. Can you view source and specify exactly what you mean?