Would it be possible to allow only sending to
racket+nos...@discoursemail.com and filtering out those sent to just
racket@...?
Maybe that could avoid *some* spam. Not sure how effective that would be
though.
On Fri, 10 Dec 2021, 14:58 Stephen De Gabrielle,
wrote:
> Thanks to Sam you can now
Thanks to Sam you can now post to discourse via email with the address
rac...@discoursemail.com
You do need to use the address you signed up with.
if you use addresses like myaddress+te...@gmail.com ... I'm not sure - I
don't have a quick way to test sending with this sort of address.
Stephen
I just tried it, from a new account that wasn’t associated with an account, and
it looks like it went through … which is actually kind of frightening. Can’t a
random spammer just send email to this address? I considered doing it as a
stunt, but decided it would be nicer to ask about it first.
It appears that enabling this is quite simple. I believe I have set it
up so that emailing racket+uncategorize...@discoursemail.com should
create a new topic in the Uncategorized category. Feel free to test it
out.
Sam
On Thu, Dec 9, 2021 at 8:27 AM Stephen De Gabrielle
wrote:
>
> > it’s
> it’s becoming apparent to me that setting up posting via email is frankly
difficult; I think that monitoring the list using mailing-list mode is
plausible, but posting, at this point, is not.
I had a chat with a Discourse consultant and they thought posting by email
was possible if you self
Your points are well taken, and moving away from a traditional mailing list is
not a decision that we took lightly; the fact is that we were simply *failing*
when it came to moderating the mailing list as run by google groups, and
running one through mailman was even worse. It appears that
I notice that Discourse has a "mailing list mode" which you can set in the
preferences. I haven't had a chance to evaluate it much yet but, what I'm
hoping for is that this will allow me to use the forum pretty much the same way
as I have been using Google Groups all along. I just realized,
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