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With the new email_in admin configuration setting, emails to the email_in_address fetched via POP will now be processed and posted as new topics to the forum. With the email_in_min_trust you can control the trust level the user needs to have at least to be able to post an email as a new topic. Also contains tests for the email-in feature and minor clean ups
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App Setup
Admin UI Setup
Let's tell discourse to check for emails
Be sure to setup email as you would for POP3 based replies.
If users will be using discourse as a mailing list, allow them to opt-in
#TODO Document how to set this true by default
No way to enforce subject lines, so lower minimum topic length
Emails may have the same subject, allow duplicate titles
Suggested User Preferences
FAQ
Q: Why is this needed?
A: No matter how good a forum is, sometimes members need to ask a question and all they have is their mail client.
Q: What if a message is received from an email address which doesn't belong to an approved, registered user?
A: It will be rejected, and a notification email sent to the moderator. Check your POP mailbox to see the rejected email content.
Q: Who did this?
A: @therealx and @yesthatallen