Forum Email Integration
 

The email integration feature is now active in the forum but in "soft launch mode*. This feature will allow you to create new posts, get notified of new posts/replies, as well as post replies to posts that you receive via email.

Activation of this feature is done manually by following these steps:

1. From your Control Panel->Networking->Group Memberships, join the "Email Subscription" group. This will give you access to subscribe instantly to specific forums you want.
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2. From Control Panel->Private Messages->Edit Forum Subscriptions, select "Instant notification by email" to all the forums you would like to get notifications from of new posts/replies.
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3. Whenever a new post is made on a forum that you have subscribed to, you should receive an email about it with the following format:
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4. In order to post a reply via email, make sure you enter your reply between the space provided.
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   You have the option of adding more lines use, BBCode to quote or format the text on your reply, or even include attachments. It is important however that you don't change the subject title of the email. Once you send the email, in a few minutes (less than 15 minutes) a reply should get posted to the correct thread.
   
   
5. You can also post new threads/topics via email. If you are subscribed to a particular forum (from Step 2), all you have to do is email the details of your post to the corresponding forum email addresses below:
   
   Talk
   • General: general(at)talk.maemo.org
   • Brainstorm: brainstorm(at)talk.maemo.org
   • Community: community(at)talk.maemo.org
   
   Software
   • Applications: applications(at)talk.maemo.org
   • Multimedia: multimedia(at)talk.maemo.org
   • Games: games(at)talk.maemo.org
   • Themes: themes(at)talk.maemo.org
   • Design: design(at)talk.maemo.org
   
   OS/Platform
   • MeeGo / Harmattan: harmattan(at)talk.maemo.org
   • Maemo 5 / Fremantle: freemantle(at)talk.maemo.org
   • OS2008 / Maemo 4 / Chinook - Diablo: os2008(at)talk.maemo.org
   • OS2006 / Maemo 2 / Mistral - Scirocco - Gregale: os2006(at)talk.maemo.org
   • Development: development(at)talk.maemo.org
   • Alternatives: alternatives(at)talk.maemo.org
   
   Devices
   • Nokia N9 / N950: n9(at)talk.maemo.org
   • Nokia N900: n900(at)talk.maemo.org
   • Nokia N810: n810(at)talk.maemo.org
   • Nokia N800: n800(at)talk.maemo.org
   • Nokia 770 : n770(at)talk.maemo.org
   • Accessories: accessories(at)talk.maemo.org
   • Competitors: competitors(at)talk.maemo.org
   • Buy & Sell: buysell(at)talk.maemo.org
   
   
   
   Note that the Subject of your email will become the title of your post while the body will be the contents of the thread. It is important that you are sending the email from the same email address associated to your Maemo.org account.

If have any quiestions or if you notice any bugs, please report them on this thread.

Thanks.

Re: Forum Email Integration
 

Unfortunately I can't join the new group:

Re: Forum Email Integration
 

Can you try again? I've updated your account but others might have the same problem so I have to do a mass update.

Re: Forum Email Integration
 

yeah. At least I have the same issue.

edit: works now

Re: Forum Email Integration
 

Working for me now. Will wait to see if I actually get email :-)

Re: Forum Email Integration
 

I got the same error message, but I could still activate the notifications under Edit Forum Subscriptions. Haven't actually tested it yet though..

Re: Forum Email Integration
 

The problem should be fixed now.

Receiving emails should be instant. Posting is scheduled every 15 minutes (minimum cron setting in vbulletin).

Re: Forum Email Integration
 

This can be done for an specific post/thread?

I would be better for some people to recieve just the reply for an specific post/thread than all new posts/replies for a entire forum.

Greetings.

Re: Forum Email Integration
 

Unfortunately not. For specific threads, you can always use the "Subscribe to this thread" option on top of the page. You will get instant notification via email when someone replies to that thread.

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Re: Forum Email Integration
 

Is there a way to make the "Daily updates by email" option include the actual text of the new posts in the email (even if without the ability to reply)?

Re: Forum Email Integration
 

Thanks for this Reggie!

Before the notifications had a convenient link to the first unread pst in a thread. The new notifications only offer (as far as I can see) a link to the first post of a thread. Is it possible to keep offering the convenient link in order to save a click?

Note: I'm not in the email notifications group. I just subscribe to threads from time to time.

Re: Forum Email Integration
 

I have added the "&goto=newpost" on the link, so it should bring you to the first unread post on that thread.

Thanks Quim.

Re: Forum Email Integration
 

It works. I just come here after clicking that link in an email notification. :)

Re: Forum Email Integration
 

Sorry, I had to wait for the summary to be sent before replying to your question.

The standard feature allows that already. Here's an example of what is sent for the "Daily updates by email" option:

Re: Forum Email Integration
 

Likewise :-)

That's a thread subscription daily email, I was referring to the forum subscription ones. Here's what the latest one I got looks like:

Re: Forum Email Integration
 

How does the "reply area" work with quoting? i.e. if I reply to an email, my email client hardwraps the lines and puts "> " at the start of each line. Are these automatically stripped?

Similarly, is it possible to strip out single newlines (at >~55 characters) from emails before posting them? Currently they're getting newlines into the forum post, rather than soft-wrapping.

Re: Forum Email Integration
 

I got the same error message, but I could still activate the notifications under Edit Forum Subscriptions. Haven't actually tested it yet though..
:confused:

Re: Forum Email Integration
 

Every now and then (about a third of the time), I get a notification email with a bogus

header (when things are working fine it's "8bit" instead). The most recent instance was Message-Id: <84358.1209282@emailintegration> in case it helps.

Re: Forum Email Integration
 

Everything ws going to the trash!