Hallo,
kürzlich haben wir unsere Nutzer darauf hingewiesen, dass Discourse auch per E-Mail genutzt werden kann – nicht nur, um auf ein bestehendes Thema zu antworten, sondern auch um ein neues zu erstellen. Einige Nutzer haben begonnen, Fragen sowohl an eine Mailingliste als auch an Discourse zu posten (Cross-Posting). Das Erste, was uns aufgefallen ist, ist, dass Discourse nicht „Alle antworten
That’s just rude.
Back in the day, I’d set up a procmail filter (According to Wikipedia “Note: Procmail is unmaintained (last update 2001),”) that would send stuff with that subject to /dev/null. I’m not sure what I’d do today, but some kind of filter of the mail before it gets ti Discourse is what you need, I’m afraid.
Good luck.
I’m using a version hosted by Discourse inc. so I don’t think that I can do that kind of filtering…
Yeah, you’d need to use some other address that you forwarded through a filter and then to your Discourse mailbox. I’m pretty sure that you can use something other than their mailbox if you wanted to, but forwarding to the existing mailbox is probably easier.
The fact that the premier tool to solve your problem hasn’t been updated in 20 years says a lot, I’m afraid. If you ran it through a gmail account you could use its filters and then forward to your existing mailbox. I’d think that you already have some such forwarding in place if you’re getting mail delivered to a category.
I used to make decent money managing mailing lists. I think they’re pretty much a bad idea held on to only by old people not unlike me.
Actually, Discourse supports providing one e-mail address per category, so no need for any additional setup.
When you enable “Category mirrors a mailing list”, replies to the email thread will end up in the same topic. See Start a New Topic via Email ✉.
It would be very interesting if Discourse could perform a reply all when new messages are posted on the topic though! This would provide a two-way mailing list interface.
Thanks! It looks exactly like what I was looking for. I hadn’t enabled the setting so far simply because I didn’t know what it meant.