Help test Talk's Email Integration
 

An Email Integration Test forum has been created to test posting threads and replies to Talk via email.

Note that this is a beta feature and might still not work perfectly. As with any other betas, usage of the beta feature is at your own risk.

How to use Email Integration

• To help test the feature, you first need to join the Talk Beta Tester group. Joining this group will let you see the 'Beta Integration Test' forum from the main page. This step was also created to somewhat prevent spammers seeing and posting to the beta forum.
• To start receiving posts, replying, as well as starting new threads via email, you have to go to your control panel and click on the new 'Edit Forum Subscriptions' option:
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• Look for 'Email Integration Test' and change your subscription to 'Instant notification by email'.
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• To start creating new threads, send an email to: emailintegrationtest (at) talk.maemo.org. It is required that you send the email using the email address you have specified on your member account here at Talk.
• To reply to a thread, make sure you post your reply on the space provided on the email message:
  
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(Please type your reply above this line!!)

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• Provide feedback on this thread.

A known limitation of this feature is that it might take up to 10 minutes for you to get notified of new posts/replies via email.

Also, since this is still on beta, you will not see new threads / replies under Active Topics.

Thanks!

Re: Help test Talk's Email Integration
 

This is awesome, I am setting it up right now. What format is the thread email?

subject = title
body = post

More feed back to follow

Re: Help test Talk's Email Integration
 

Yup. BBCodes are automatically converted. I think you can attach fiels (e.g. images) too, but I haven't tested that yet.

Re: Help test Talk's Email Integration
 

I joined group, set for instant message but its not working. I JUST changed my email in control panel, could this be affecting me?

Re: Help test Talk's Email Integration
 

Maybe. Whenever you change your email in the control panel, vbulletin sends you a confirmation email on the new email address. Check if you got it.

Re: Help test Talk's Email Integration
 

I got this

Hello,

We're sorry, but we could not process your emailed reply / new thread.

We do not show an account with the email address of: penguinbait@penguinbait.com

Please review your account at:
http://talk.maemo.org/usercp.php

And verify that the email address matches. The email address on your account must match the email address the reply or new thread is sent from in order for the system to verify your identity.

Thank you,
maemo.org - Talk

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I changed it to penguinbait@penguinbait.com

no confirmation was sent to that address.

I went back to check my email address, it was the old address. when I change it and save, it does not save, when I go back?

Re: Help test Talk's Email Integration
 

I manually changed your email address. Try it now.

Re: Help test Talk's Email Integration
 

Doh, I just moved it all around ;)

OK, just leave it, I will go change my end all around again.

Thanks!

Re: Help test Talk's Email Integration
 

OK, I'm dim, but why would someone want to post threads and replies by email instead via the Talk interface?

Re: Help test Talk's Email Integration
 

I believe this is an effort to merge Talk and the maemo-* mailing lists into one (with each still using their preferred communication median).

Personally, I think it's a great idea.

Re: Help test Talk's Email Integration
 

also think of how many cell phones can't load talk but can use email.

Re: Help test Talk's Email Integration
 

OK, so I have a central GMail account, and I have several e-mail addresses forwarding to this account. I also use this account to send e-mails from these other accounts. However, I get an error e-mail saying that my central gmail account isn't registered, so I can't send the message. But I have set my e-mail address to the accepted address!

If this can't be changed, you'd better warn people about it. You can't use gmail to send e-mails from other e-mails that you own.

Re: Help test Talk's Email Integration
 

Yes you can. Go to settings > Accounts. You can add another e-mail address, it'll send an e-mail to that address to make sure it's actually yours, and you can then send e-mail from all of you addresses. I do the same thing. I have three e-mail addresses that all forward to one, and I can send e-mail from any of them, all through gmail.

Re: Help test Talk's Email Integration
 

penguinbait.com is hosted by gmail,

Open your account, go to settings on top.

select Accounts

Click "Add another email address you own"

Then add the email address you want to use. Then you will be able to send as that user, you can select that email ID from the dropdown box when composing a new email. I could only get this to work on gmail ((webmail) no clients worked. You can also set which is the default from the settings.

a little slow :)

Re: Help test Talk's Email Integration
 

truejournals and penguinbait: that's what I do. I've got three addresses registered with GMail too. And I select my e-mail address from the dropdown. This method works everywhere else. But my email posts get rejected by talk.maemo.org because my gmail address is not registered here.

Re: Help test Talk's Email Integration
 

I didn't know until I tried that I had my old work email address in the system lol

Re: Help test Talk's Email Integration
 

And you are doing this in gmail (web client) not an actual email client right?

Mine is working fine, You joined the group here too right?

Re: Help test Talk's Email Integration
 

qole, try it now. It was set to a strict setting that it was bypassing the reply-to address and rather using the actual source email address.

Re: Help test Talk's Email Integration
 

That sounds like talk is looking at the Sender: header instead of the From: header
(the Sender: header will show your gmail address, the From: header will show your configured address, i.e. the one you want.

Re: Help test Talk's Email Integration
 

It works now, thanks Reggie. Another interesting problem: if I send an e-mail with a subject line that exactly matches an existing thread, it will start a second thread with that title rather than attaching it to the existing thread. Perhaps not a huge deal, but I think it would be better to attach to an existing thread rather than start a new one.

Re: Help test Talk's Email Integration
 

*bump*

Testers and feedback welcome!

Re: Help test Talk's Email Integration
 

I'm in. Have sent an email and now waiting to see what happens!

This is a great solution, IMHO. Massive Kudos to Reggie for making it work.

Re: Help test Talk's Email Integration
 

/me checks the date.... and it's still not live?

I'd like to see this on every Forum :)

Re: Help test Talk's Email Integration
 

ooh - isn't this just dying to go live?

Re: Help test Talk's Email Integration
 

Can we enable this on Community, N9, Harmattan, Fremantle, N900, etc?

Re: Help test Talk's Email Integration
 

I'll see what I can do tonight. I need to get the (modified) version being used in MeeGo.com since that one has been working well.

Re: Help test Talk's Email Integration
 

feel free to ping me if you have any issues with accessing meego.com stuff :)

Re: Help test Talk's Email Integration
 

This is now live: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=83462

I'm closing this thread. Please use the thread above for fututre discussions about the email integration feature.

Thanks for all those who helped test this feature!