Work out (and document) how to set up direct-delivery incoming mail #3

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2023-04-09T18:35:10Z

3wordchant commented

2023-04-09 18:35:10 +00:00

One of Discourse's killer features (imho) is its ability to act as a mailing list, allowing people to reply to posts by email, and start new discussions by emailing a specific address.

It's possible to set this up using POP3 with a dedicated inbox, but it's always felt neater to use "direct delivery mail" (set-up instructions, where a specially-configured Postfix server passes emails directly to Discourse using its API endpoints.

At Autonomic, we've previously used Web Architects' Ansible playbook to set this up directly on the host; presumably there's some nifty way of crowbaring it into Docker, and adding it to this recipe as a compose.incoming-email.yml or something.

One of Discourse's killer features (imho) is its ability to act as a mailing list, allowing people to reply to posts by email, and start new discussions by emailing a specific address. It's possible to set this up using POP3 with a dedicated inbox, but it's always felt neater to use "direct delivery mail" ([set-up instructions](https://meta.discourse.org/t/configure-direct-delivery-incoming-email-for-self-hosted-sites/49487), where a specially-configured Postfix server passes emails directly to Discourse using its API endpoints. At Autonomic, we've previously used [Web Architects' Ansible playbook](https://git.coop/webarch/discourse/-/blob/master/tasks/email.yml) to set this up directly on the host; presumably there's some nifty way of crowbaring it into Docker, and adding it to this recipe as a `compose.incoming-email.yml` or something.

3wordchant changed title from ~~Work out (and document) how to set up incoming mail~~ to Work out (and document) how to set up direct-delivery incoming mail

2023-04-09 18:35:24 +00:00

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Reference: coop-cloud/discourse#3