Discourse can be used exclusively via email. Here’s how:
“Mailing list mode” is a red herring, and will email you for every new post across the entirety of our Discourse instance, so don’t enable it, unless you want that of course!
Simply reply to the notification email you receive in your email client!
replying from email client
I read that it’s even possibly to actually create new topics by sending mails.
It’d be helpful if Discouse would show the necessary mail address somewhere in the user preferences, or even better on the start page - or maybe I missed it somewhere?
Yes Gohrner I think you are right but I would probably need to check and turn on another global setting in our discourse. I kinda neglected that for now because I wanted to verify some things first before doing so (e-mail server, spam etc).
Update, and as written in New public mailing list. It is now possible to create topics via email. To create a new topic just send an email to the desired category:
Note: You can also mute and choose how do you track a category by email. For that head over to a category and click in the drop-down bell icon at the top
