Good morning Sergio!
It's actually 22:00 here, but that just highlights why the "people in
wildly different time zones" question is worth solving!
On Wed, Feb 18 2026, Sergio Pastor Pérez wrote:
> Just to complement my previous message, the email integration page of
> Zulip[1] leads me to believe that this bidirectional workflow is
> supported. I quote:
>
> Setup instructions for email users
Note: email _users_. Not mailing lists. This is for "I want to receive a
notification email about messages sent to me".
I can share the structure of one of these notifications. They have both
plain text and HTML, but I'll just share the plain text.
Subject: {channel name} > {topic name} [{organisation name}]
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
{sender name}
> Message content
> goes here
> in multiple lines if needed
> formatted as **Markdown**
--
You are receiving this because you were personally mentioned.
Reply to this email directly, or view it in {organisation name} Zulip:
{a url pointing to the thread in the web interface}
Manage email preferences:
{a url pointing to Zulip's notification settings}
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Note that the >s are verbatim in the email.
The only way I can see this working, without us building some custom
infrastructure using the Zulip API, is to register a Zulip account using
[email protected] as its email address. Zulip would then send
notifications like this to the list, which people could reply to.
(Actually, I don't know if people could reply to it, because it uses a
"reply to" header - do our mailing lists preserve that?)
I don't think this will work well on a real mailing list. I expect this
would annoy many people (myself included).
I'd love for you to try it on a test mailing list and prove me wrong.
Carlo
