Hi Discourse Experts — We have some scripts that generate mails to our Discourse categories to automatically track project events like test results, new user issues being filed, etc. I had naively assumed that if two mails showed up with the the same subject line (say, “linux64 testing”), they wou…

Having experimented a bit more now, it looks to me like the “Allow topics with identical, duplicate titles” settings only apply to topics created via the website, and not those received by email. I’ve opened up a feature request to extend topics when an email’s subject matches its title rather than…

If you’re not looking at the site, how do you know if a title has already been used? I’m not certain I’m understanding your question (because I worry that I’m repeating myself), but taking a stab at it: The scenario that motivates this question for our Discourse site is one in which posts are ge…

That’s a very specific use case to ask to change a whole behavior. Have you considered using something other than SMTP for message delivery?

Have you considered using something other than SMTP for message delivery? We haven’t, but could certainly consider it if that’s considered best practice. To make sure I’m understanding, are you suggesting having our scripts post to Discourse by interacting with the website through HTML like a hu…

[image] BradCray: Or do Discourse sites support an API that the scripts could target directly? Start here

[image] BradCray: Getting a bit more hypothetical, I could imagine a user who works within a secure environment and is not allowed to interact directly with websites; but whose sysadmins reflect the contents of a website of interest into their environment for read-only browsing. Knowing the subj…

Hi @riking and @Stephen — I thought I understood the state of Discourse after your comments on this issue last week (which I’d summarize as “by design, duplicate titles are accepted when sent in via the “email-in” functionality regardless of the status of the ‘allow duplicate topics’ settings becau…

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If you’re not looking at the site, how do you know if a title has already been used?

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Feature Request: Auto-extend a topic when an email's subject matches its title Feature	2	549	September 9, 2020
Emails in with already-used subject should append to that topic Feature	5	1798	November 4, 2014
Allow same posting via mail-in to more than one category? Support	9	498	July 15, 2023
Email-in to multiple categories Support email	25	3470	March 14, 2022
Reject email if title already used Support	2	448	February 15, 2022

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