Good evening,
Carlo Zancanaro <[email protected]> writes:
> 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!
Or should I say good night? :)
> 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.
Alright, I need to explore the functionality. I'm quite busy this weeks,
so I was actually planning to bring the Zulip discussion further down
the line, once I had time to do some experiments. But since Gabriel
started the conversation already, I've decided to participate. Excuse my
lack of preparation.
Regarding this example you show, is my understanding that aside from the
user side of things, which is what you show, there is also the
possibility to subscribe a Zulip channel to a mailing list. Which was my
initial idea. This is described in this page of their documentation[1],
I quote:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Subscribe a Zulip channel to a mailing list
* Instructions for all platforms
1 Create a mailing list to use with Zulip, or use an existing one.
2 Create a Zulip channel that will receive mailing list traffic, or use an
existing one.
3 Generate an email address for the channel you created.
4 Add the email address for the channel to the mailing list.
New emails sent to the email list will now be mirrored to the channel.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
[1] https://zulip.com/integrations/email
So, my proposal for the mailing list would be to give the same special
treatment that we give to IRC. One channel for IRC and one channel for
the Mailing list.
And the rest of Zulip for user help related questions, community events
organization (such as video calls, polls, etc) and other Guile
communities. Of course, the community things would be announced in the
mailing list, and since Zulip would just integrate with the call
provider of our choice, anyone should be able to join as if Zulip didn't
existed from the link sent to the mailing list.
> 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.
Sure, once I have some additional free time I will explore the platform,
thanks for the ideas :)
Good night,
Sergio
