In [llvm-dev] [cfe-dev] Mailing List Status Update@Hal Finkel (who doesn’t seem to be registered here and who I consequently cannot CC, I think) repeated what was said before, discourse replaces a mailing list.
He linked this article (How do I use Discourse via email? - FAQs - Mozilla Discourse) which talks about email preferences and creating topics via mail. I did find some of the preferences but not all. I don’t think the ones I didn’t find are the most important but I wanted to include it here.
More importantly, I was wondering where I find the “Create topics via email” button. I suspect the button thing might not work on my system but I want to give it a try, unfortunately I didn’t find the button Assuming the button is added, does that mean we always need to click it or is sending an email sufficient to start a topic? If it’s the latter, it is not really clear to me to what address to send the email. The last paragraph of the article does explain it a little I’m not certain what I’d do now.
We haven’t setup the “create a topic by email” on this instance right now. The way it works IIRC is that we need to create an email account (anywhere) dedicated to this and configure a pop3 access for Discourse to poll the email account.
We haven’t setup the “create a topic by email” on this instance right now. The way it works IIRC is that we need to create an email account (anywhere) dedicated to this and configure a pop3 access for Discourse to poll the email account.
Well, inability to post a new message (as opposed to replying to an existing thread) is a severe disadvantage, compared to the current mailing list.
Also, POP3 is a big warning sign to me. Cannot Discourse offer something like llvm-incoming@discoursemail.com for the LLVM group? And if it cannot – then, again, perhaps the benefits of this platform are overrated…?
Maybe you misread but there is no intrinsic “inability” here: it is just something to configure.
In particular you need to setup an email for each category for this to work.
The description is a thread inside the category itself. Most of the time it is “pinned” at the top of the category, other you probably need to search it with “About the xxxx category”
It looks like I can’t use the Discourse iOS app here; it always redirects to Safari. I can use the app fine on the Swift forums. Is this an understood problem?
Ah, I had the old URL added; re-adding it under the new URL seems to have done the trick. It took some badgering to get it to accept github authentication, but the app is working now, thank you.
Assuming the button is added, does that mean we always need to click it or is sending an email sufficient to start a topic? If it’s the latter, it is not really clear to me to what address to send the email. The last paragraph of the article does explain it a little I’m not certain what I’d do now.
I’m finishing the documentation on it now. If you click on every category description you can see the email address to use.