Feature #34
Setup incoming email to allow for Forum replies, etc.
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Description
It appears there is a use-case for a more functional email gateway. Here's how to do it in redmine.
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#1 Updated by Nitesh Mor almost 7 years ago
- Related to Feature #33: Mailing list for GDP Users added
#2 Updated by Nitesh Mor almost 7 years ago
- Priority changed from Normal to Low
#3 Updated by Nitesh Mor almost 6 years ago
This should work, at least partly for now. There is a big caveat, however: If a user replies to an email notification from a different sender address than what the original email was intended to, this doesn't work. For example, if the notification was sent to xyz@eecs.berkeley, but the user replies from abc@cs.berkeley (because they happen to have a poorly configured email), it does not work... Since redmine has no way of knowing who should be put in the user field.
Please update if this is an acceptable solution.
#4 Updated by Nitesh Mor almost 6 years ago
- Status changed from New to Feedback
#5 Updated by Eric Allman almost 6 years ago
#6 Updated by Eric Allman almost 6 years ago
Seems to work — definitely better than ignoring incoming mail.
If you do get a reply from an unknown user, what does it do? Does the sender at least get a notification, or does the mail just fall down a rabbit hole?
#7 Updated by Nitesh Mor almost 6 years ago
The latter.
There are three options for email from unknown users: ignore the email
altogether (moved to a separate 'failed' folder in the mailbox), post
it as an anonymous user (doesn't work in our case, because we don't
allow anonymous posting), or create a new user (not really the best
option IMO for open systems like ours).
On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 12:57 PM, gdp@berkeley.edu wrote:
#8 Updated by Eric Allman almost 6 years ago
I agree that it is the least bad of those three choices. I wish it had
the option to also send a message back to the sender though.