Discourse and incoming email

[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

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.

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?

[girish]

@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

[jdaviescoates]

@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?

[bmann]

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

[james]

@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!