On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 08:42:44 -0400 Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am using Discourse with Nethserver. It **DOES** have an email > interface! I receive an email for each posting tagged in the subject > for which sub-forum it is associated with. I CAN respond directly > via email, but it does take some time to get posted. Or I can click > on the provided link and go to that thread and respond there. > > Your people thinking about Discourse should talk to the Nethserver > people about their email config > setup. > > That said, the email interface is not as good as the web one, but it > does work for simple responses. Mail filtering on the subject does > allow me to put all messages into proper folders here. > > Another advantage of email is I can read and respond while I am on a > plane (provided I synced down my inbox, but all folders are local). > Can't do that with a forum with the performance you get with airplane > internet connectivity. Particularly trans-ocean. > > So my vote on forums and Discourse is a -0.5. > > But if you DO go with it, configure it similar to what Nethserver > community has done. Then get the Discourse people to improve the > email interface. And maybe the Thunderbird people can do > improvements or maybe a plugin for better response capability. Thanks for this real life experience, and correcting my misunderstanding. I wonder if the list mail server could be subscribed to the Discourse instance. Then the mail server would automatically take care of passing messages back and forth. A post to the mail list would show up in Discourse, and a post in Discourse would automatically show up on the mail list. Transparent to users of both. And the mail list archives would serve as a backup to the Discourse archives, just as the Discourse archives would serve as a backup to the mail list. Maybe that is stretching the functionality of both Discourse and the mail server too far. But a big plus for being completely transparent to users of both Discourse and the mail list, while allowing both to contribute in the same conversations. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
