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@bmann I guess https://github.com/discourse/mail-receiver is the repo? Did I understand correctly that it can be run on a separate server and hooked up to Cloudron+Discourse install? (Of course, ideally, we can have this all part of the Cloudron package itself or maybe a separate Cloudron package)
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Argh. Just gone through a lengthy process of getting Discourse set up - and it was a big part of choosing Cloudron - only to find this thread.
This is challenging, even though there is an answer.
- Any solutions?
- Does NodeBB do inbound? On Cloudron?
- Can this be done with Mailgun instead?
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@eddowding said in Discourse and incoming email:
Can this be done with Mailgun instead?
I've not tried it yet, but I think there is a new option when installing apps to not use Cloudron for mail at all and to just configure it all within the app itself. I guess that might work @staff ?
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@jdaviescoates That feature is for used for configuring apps that send email. @eddowding wants a way for an app to receive email.
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@girish said in Discourse and incoming email:
@jdaviescoates That feature is for used for configuring apps that send email. @eddowding wants a way for an app to receive email.
I realised @eddowding wants to receive email (and I think it's really quite bad that Discourse is a Stable App but doesn't have some of it's basic features packaged, nor any warning of those missing features. Indeed when installing that app it says "Use it as a: mailing list" which you can't do if it can't receive mail), I just figured Mailgun details or whatever could be entered somewhere into Discourse settings and that might work. I guess you're saying that wouldn't work but I don't think I really understand why that would be the case
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@jdaviescoates It's debatable if mailing list is a basic feature for forum software (though it seems the description comes from https://github.com/discourse/discourse#readme and I am reluctant to remove it since this is what the upstream devs think )
That said, you can use it as a mailing list, just not if the email domain is hosted on Cloudron since we don't support POP3 yet. I also don't know why they only support POP3 when all other apps support IMAP (gitlab, freescout, espocrm for example). Anyone have any background on this?
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@girish said in Discourse and incoming email:
I also don't know why they only support POP3
Yes, it does seem odd.
Although it sounds like it's not the only way:
Pushing emails via the Discourse API
Alternatively, you can push emails to Discourse via the API. For that, you will need
To check the manual_polling_enabled site setting. A master API key 138 or an API key associated to a staff member.Then, to push an email to Discourse, you need to pass the raw email content as the “email” parameter when POSTing to “/admin/email/handle_mail”. The endpoint accepts application/json (recommended), multipart/form-data, or application/x-www-urlencoded request bodies (with an appropriate request Content-Type header, naturally).
You’re done
From the link @eddowding posted above
Edit: also, this thread should not be marked as solved, as this issue has not yet been solved.
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E eddowding referenced this topic on
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I'd love to use the API but it's far from obvious if that's actually possible on Cloudron. @jenny_molloy's opening post suggests it's not.
https://meta.discourse.org/t/direct-delivery-incoming-email-for-self-hosted-sites/49487
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To give an update on this. Currently the package lacks the pre-setup of the pop3 configs, this is under way, however even then I wasn't able to make use of that feature properly, despite the app receiving the emails. May just be that I haven't fully grasped how it is supposed to work.
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For a start I have published a new app package which does the pre-setup of the email receiving part.
Just to be clear, the transactional emails for discourse are using a different email address.
So far I haven't been able to configure it to actually accept any emails for forum threads, however it does process it now, so maybe I am just missing something small.
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@jdaviescoates Me too!
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Hello. I was thinking of setting up a Discourse forum especially because it can also be used as a mailing list – i.e. a reply by a user via email corresponds to a forum reply if I understood well. I don’t mind using a third party email account or the cloudron one.
But by reading this thread I can’t understand if the email integration for Discourse on Cloudron actually works. Is it only a specific or a general issue? I would be delighted if somebody could illuminate me about this. Thx!
