Mail-in Revamp in trunk (12 SVN)

The new things include

  • Structure routing. Link mailed-in content to a structure. User filters specify routing rules.
  • Inline images (HTML email). These pages are written in HTML.
  • Permission checking. There was previously no permission checking!
  • Possible to auto-assign new pages to a category
  • Manual check trigger in the mail-in admin panel
  • Limit admins mail-in permissions
  • Possible to force HTML email stored in HTML format
  • Several fixes, including subject encoding


Mail-in requires a dedicated POP3 account.
A mail download can be scheduled (e.g. every 30 minutes) or done manually.

Users are required to have both edit and attach permissions to save a wiki page.

New permission: tiki_p_send_mailin
Can send email to a mail-in accounts, and have the email integrated. Only applies when the mail-in setting "anonymous" = n (tiki_p_send_mailin)

The new permission tiki_p_send_mailin is used to limit who can mail-in web pages (must have edit and attach permissions additionally).

The option "Keep HTML format" will for HTML email, write the wiki page in HTML format, regardless of editor availability and selection. This may make it difficult to edit such pages, if in wiki mode and no HTML editor is activated. However, the visual reproduction is much better in HTML.

The wishlist below should be rechecked.

Structure Routing

Each user can define a set of "structure routes" for mailed-in content.

In the example below, all email sent in by the user containing the word "gmail" (case insensitive comparison), will be routed to the root node of the s
astruct. (
= namespace separator)

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The parent page must be located in the selected structure. If specified, the mailed-in page will be listed as the first child node.

Note that the "edit structure" permission is required, on the target structure, to add a page. Thus the user mailing in the new page, must have this permission to have the page processed. If the structure is linked to a category, the "edit structure" permission must be granted at category level.

Validated email clients

  • Outlook 2010
  • GMail

Setting up mail-in

First make sure that the interaction with the email server works.
"Allow anonymous access" will disable all permission checking. This is useful when first setting up mail-in.
You usually want to disable "Allow anonymous access" afterwards.

The adjust the mail-in security settings
You may consider disabling "Allow admin access".

Possible permission setup

  1. Create a mail-in category, and a mail-in group
  2. Mark mail-in category as auto assigned the mail-in admin panel.
  3. Allow the mail-in group the following permissions on the mail-in category: "view page", "edit page", "can view attachments" and "attach to wiki".
    1. Note: If structure routing is enabled, the mail-in group also needs the "edit structure" permission on the target structure.
  4. Assign the global "mailing send" permission to the mail-in group.


Users assigned to the mail-in group should then be able to create wiki pages from email.

Wishes

RatingSubjectSubmitted byImportance Easy to solve?PriorityCategoryVolunteered to solveCreatedLastModifComments
(0) Record Mail-in events in action logArild Berg25
  • Feature request
2013-11-082013-11-091
pascalstjean-09 Nov 13
(0) Forwarded messages to a mail-in forum are prefixed with "FW: "walls15001 low5
  • Error
walls15002006-10-042007-06-120
(0) Adding POP Mailaccount to a forum causes WSOD for that forumTorsten Fabricius10 high50
  • Regression
  • Release Blocker
Jonny Bradley2017-03-232017-05-020
(0) https://tiki.org/forum26 is no longer getting messages from tiki-develMarc Laporte10 high770
  • Dogfood on a *.tiki.org site
  • Regression
2017-08-102018-03-010
(0) Mailin Article-Put doesn't post attachment?RobKelley236
  • Usability
  • Feature request
RobKelley2005-12-212021-10-051
Bsfez-05 Oct 21
(0) Mail-In to Forum does not follow thread when original post has movedwalls1500210
  • Error
  • Patch
walls15002006-10-042007-12-311
marclaporte-16 Oct 21
(0) Forum post by email - duplicate emails render forum inaccessiblejhamell210
  • Error
2008-05-282008-10-111
drsassafras-26 Feb 20
(0) Tracker mail-in (in addition to forum, wiki & articles)Marc Laporte315
  • Feature request
MatWho2007-01-212008-10-161
drsassafras-26 Feb 20
(0) Mail-in: recognize "from" email and assign action to the correct userMarc Laporte420
  • Feature request
sylvieg2007-01-212007-01-210
(0) Tikiwiki mailin is broken in 1.8.5; patches are simple, and attachedswampfox525
  • Error
  • Patch
swampfox2005-07-152009-04-101
marclaporte-12 Jun 07
(0) Remove Array() message on each and every Mailin post?RobKelley525
  • Error
  • Feature request
2005-12-222021-10-051
Bsfez-05 Oct 21
(0) POP3 collected e-mail not correctly integrated into forumJan Krohn525
  • Error
2008-05-232008-10-112
drsassafras-26 Feb 20
(0) Mail doesn't work for wikiBigGosh630
  • Error
  • Patch
2007-02-152020-02-264
drsassafras-26 Feb 20
(0) forum mailin should update on regular basisRick Sapir / Tiki for Smarties630
  • Usability
  • Consistency
2008-11-182008-11-182
jhamell-30 Apr 10
(0) Synchronize Forum and external Mailinglist (Mailman)Frank Guthausen6424
  • Error
  • Feature request
  • Regression
2013-10-122013-10-120
(0) Mailin comment to a page using RE:RobKelley735
  • Feature request
RobKelley2007-03-312008-06-260
(0) pop port appears hardcoded to 110dgm735
  • Error
dgm2007-10-022013-06-140
(0) allow article mailin to use both header and bodyRick Sapir / Tiki for Smarties735
  • Feature request
2008-10-302008-10-300
(0) Rejected email are received forever if tiki user is not authorised to use mailinBernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist7535
  • Usability
2019-06-252022-11-291
marclaporte-02 Nov 19
(0) Bug in registration procedurealain_desilets945
  • Error
Nelson Ko2009-10-172013-10-200
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