History: EmailToForumGatewaying

This page describes how to set up a Tiki forum such that all mails from the forum go to a mailing list, and all mails from that mailing list (assuming people respect the Reply-To header) go back to the forum. The latest Tiki version even preserves e-mail threading, even on posts to the forums!

The portion of the forum administration page we are using looks like this:

The first option, "Forward messages in this forum...", you should set to the name of the mailing list that people will be subscribing to to see the messages in this forum.

Please note that using "Send this forums posts to this email" will not do the right thing, as the emails that that feature sends are not in the right format, nor sent from the right user.

The second option, "Originating e-mail address...", should be set to whatever full address the third part ends up corresponding to.

The third option, "Add messages from this email to the forum", should be set to the server, user and password of a POP3 account that is solely for receiving mail for this forum.