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  • bmannB Offline
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    wrote on last edited by
    #41

    Yep, I had no problems with this -- once I figured out enabling POP3 🙂

    • set up forum@yourdiscoursedomain.com as a mailbox
    • enable pop3
    • set the app as the owner of this mailbox

    Want unique addresses for categories? Set up aliases for forum@yourdiscoursedomain.com like myothercategory@yourdiscoursedomain.com

    In Discourse, you'll need to enable email in

    Screen Shot 2023-10-16 at 1.52.46 AM.png

    For initial Discourse setup, I also have better instructions:

    Rather than resetting the email address, you can / should reset the password -- which you need to do right away. Run the rake admin:create task from the Terminal for the root / admin account.

    Hit "Y" to reset password and change the password.

    Screen Shot 2023-10-16 at 1.32.28 AM.png

    The account already is an admin, and I didn't bother changing the email because I really only see it as a backup account.

    Once I logged in with OIDC with my Cloudron account, I followed this same process to make my account an admin account -- same rake admin:create command, say "Y" to making it an Admin, but don't change password.

    I don't know how to contribute better setup instructions -- are they in git so I can send a PR?

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    • bmannB bmann

      Yep, I had no problems with this -- once I figured out enabling POP3 🙂

      • set up forum@yourdiscoursedomain.com as a mailbox
      • enable pop3
      • set the app as the owner of this mailbox

      Want unique addresses for categories? Set up aliases for forum@yourdiscoursedomain.com like myothercategory@yourdiscoursedomain.com

      In Discourse, you'll need to enable email in

      Screen Shot 2023-10-16 at 1.52.46 AM.png

      For initial Discourse setup, I also have better instructions:

      Rather than resetting the email address, you can / should reset the password -- which you need to do right away. Run the rake admin:create task from the Terminal for the root / admin account.

      Hit "Y" to reset password and change the password.

      Screen Shot 2023-10-16 at 1.32.28 AM.png

      The account already is an admin, and I didn't bother changing the email because I really only see it as a backup account.

      Once I logged in with OIDC with my Cloudron account, I followed this same process to make my account an admin account -- same rake admin:create command, say "Y" to making it an Admin, but don't change password.

      I don't know how to contribute better setup instructions -- are they in git so I can send a PR?

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      wrote on last edited by
      #42

      @bmann you can submit PRs here - https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/docs/

      Discourse docs are at https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/docs/-/blob/master/knowledgebase/docs/apps/discourse.md?ref_type=heads

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      • bmannB bmann

        Yep, I had no problems with this -- once I figured out enabling POP3 🙂

        • set up forum@yourdiscoursedomain.com as a mailbox
        • enable pop3
        • set the app as the owner of this mailbox

        Want unique addresses for categories? Set up aliases for forum@yourdiscoursedomain.com like myothercategory@yourdiscoursedomain.com

        In Discourse, you'll need to enable email in

        Screen Shot 2023-10-16 at 1.52.46 AM.png

        For initial Discourse setup, I also have better instructions:

        Rather than resetting the email address, you can / should reset the password -- which you need to do right away. Run the rake admin:create task from the Terminal for the root / admin account.

        Hit "Y" to reset password and change the password.

        Screen Shot 2023-10-16 at 1.32.28 AM.png

        The account already is an admin, and I didn't bother changing the email because I really only see it as a backup account.

        Once I logged in with OIDC with my Cloudron account, I followed this same process to make my account an admin account -- same rake admin:create command, say "Y" to making it an Admin, but don't change password.

        I don't know how to contribute better setup instructions -- are they in git so I can send a PR?

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        jdaviescoates
        wrote on last edited by
        #43

        @bmann thanks for your input on this, very helpful! I think I'm correct that you never got around to submitting a PR to improve the docs around this? 🤷 🤔

        I use Cloudron with Gandi & Hetzner

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          bmann
          wrote on last edited by
          #44

          I did not, unlikely to get to it, sorry.

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            wrote on last edited by
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            @bmann I will take care of this and make sure your advanced guide will be added to https://docs.cloudron.io/apps/discourse/#incoming-email-setup

            Thanks for the already done write-up!

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