Here are the short instruction on using discourse (exclusively) via email, for those who don’t like javascript / prefer email.
Enable Mailing List mode
This will forward every new post on the forum to your inbox. You may unsubscribe later from specific categories.
Go to your user settings
https://forum.qubes-os.org/u/<USERNAME>/preferences/emails – replace with your username
Click on Enable mailing list mode
Replying to emails
If you want to reply, just reply to the email and your response will show up on the forum.
You may notice that email you receive has a reply-to: header set. When replying, please respect this header, or your email will not be delivered!
You can also carry out some actions on posts by replying with a command. Supported operations are:
+1 or like : likes the post
watch : watches the topic
track : tracks the topic
mute : mutes the topic
Creating new topic via email
You may also create new discussions. For that you’ll need to find the category’s email address under the respective About this category for that category. It should be pinned to the top.
Note: to use this you need to be at least trust level 2. This means you must have been spending a bit of time on the forum. But if you’re an email-only person and have been relatively active replying, please notify the moderators so we can review your trust level.
I don’t recall how, but I get a copy of all replies. I assume that i did
not select the options you chose.
I was told when the discourse forum was being discussed that email users
could not generate new topics. I don’t know if this is true and have not
tested it.
I am a bit confused as to what you are proposing as the option Send me an email for every new post should do what you are suggesting as your third option. I just tested and I did get the first post of a topic as well as every reply.
But I checked the outbound emails and I can confirm that for this topic neither the first nor the third were sent (which could only make sense in the case you have the option Send an email for every new post except my own.
So this means that the problem probably is discourse related and not associated with BBC.
Could you just confirm again that that’s not the option that you have selected? @qufo
The only ones that should be missing that are the ones in the “In your language section”, since it’s probably better to find someone to translate the instruction on sending an email to that category in the native language rather than in English. But if you see it’s missing in other categories, please let me know.
Yes, that’s rather different from what I thought you were saying.
It may well be a deficiency in discourse. If you use a decent MUA you
could set some rules to CC you on this type of message, or save it to
the “forum” mail folder
Your right chose that option. I got confused because the other option has at the end, in parentheses: about 35 per day. I interpreted that as upper limit not as an estimate. Sorry for the confusion, and thanks for poke my nose in it.
I find that I am unable to open new topics because I do not have the
relevant trust level - Cant say I am surprised.
I was trying to crosspost news on the Focal template to “General
Discussion”. Can someone post that for me?
Sorry about that. Upped your trust level to “member”, which you certainly are! So feel free to try it again
The problem is a lot of the metrics getting to the next trust level (discourse’s way of encouraging participation and discouraging spam) do rely on in-forum participation. I’ll follow that up on the discourse meta.
However, I’m not very hopeful there will be any other solution than manual approval. For this reason, I’ve edited the original post to include note that users in that situation should notify the moderators (like you did).
We’re sorry, but your email message to [“qubes_os@discoursemail.com”] (titled Re: [Qubes Forum] SecBrowser has been deprecated [General Discussion]) didn’t work. Do you use more than one email address? Did you reply from a different email address? Email replies require that you use the same email address when replying. Alternately, the Message-ID header in the email may have been modified.
I don’t see why not. You can simply clone anon-whonix qube and connect =
it to the clearnet.
Not quite. You will also have to convince Tor Browser to allow clearnet=20
connections, which was recently discussed in this forum and answered by=20
a link to the whonix forum.
I checked the logs and it seems the main difference from other responses via email is that instead of replying to qubes_os+[some_topic_numbers]@discoursemail.com you sent to qubes_os@discoursemail.com. Quoting from your email headers:
My first guess is you replied somehow differently than usual. Could that be the case? Please double-check the reply to header and see if it it arrived somehow differently on your inbox (compared to other emails from the forum)
I’ve just sent message to list cc’ed to General, but it doesnt seem to
have hit the Forum - ? Likely my fault, as I rarely open topics, but can
you help?
Interesting behavior… In this case you sent the topic and it did arrive well, but to the wrong category: it arrived in the mailinglist mirror.
Basically the mailing list mirroring is done in discourse is it filters anything sent to the qubes-users@googlegroup… to that category. Because you had both addresses it went into that one instead of the general category.
So a way to go around that may be to send one email to the mailing list and then resend exclusively to the forum address. It’s a bit of an extra effort. Sorry about that.
If you get some error because (at least created manually) one cannot create two topics with the same name. Then just change the title a tiny bit. Idk.
Sorry about this. Trying to harmonize email users and forum user’s experiences is an ever-improving process…
This is the unlikely combination of two niche features of discourse playing: the new topics by email and the mailing list. Although individually they are not terribly supported, my guess is the combination of both features is so rare… Regardless, I’ve asked on the discourse meta forum if there is any solution.
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