Robin Ward wrote:
We've just enabled the ability to reply by email to Discourse for all users on meta! It works like on other sites such as Facebook or Github. If an email is related to a topic, it will say in the footer that you can reply to it. Simply reply to the message in your email client and your post will be made on Discourse.
Please help us test it out and give us feedback!
Configuring Reply by Email
To enable the feature on your own Discourse site, you need to set up a few site settings:
reply_by_email_enabled
- set to truereply_by_email_address
- change to your email address that will handle replies. For examplereply+%{reply_key}@reply.myforum.com
.%{reply_key}
is required and will be replaced with a unique identifier for the email.Receiving Email
Right now we only support parsing replies from POP3S servers. In the future we'll likely add other methods such as support for web APIs. Pull requests welcome! Here's how to configure POP3s:
pop3s_polling_enabled
- set this to truepop3s_polling_port
- Your POP3S server port (default is 995)pop3s_polling_host
- The host to poll for mailpop3s_polling_username
- The username for your POP3S accountpop3s_polling_password
- The password for your POP3S accountUsing Gmail to Receive Email
We've tried it out with gmail and it seems to work great as they offer POP3s support. (Note: don't confuse this with sending email. Gmail is not recommended as a SMTP server for a Discourse forum as you will encounter many limits and spam prevention measures.)
To use gmail, create an account and use the following pop3 settings:
server: pop.gmail.com (try pop.googlemail.com if this does not work) username: <your full gmail account address> password: <you know this>
Have fun!
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