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Mail-in

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)

Image
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

Rating Subject Submitted By Importance Easy to solve ? Priority Category Volunteered to solve Created Modified
(0) https://tiki.org/forum26 is no longer getting messages from tiki-devel Marc Laporte 10 7 70
  • Regression
  • Dogfood on a *.tiki.org site
10 Aug 17 01 Mar 18
(0) POP3 collected e-mail not correctly integrated into forum Jan Krohn 5 25 23 May 08 06 Jul 24
(0) Mailin Article-Put doesn't post attachment? RobKelley 2 3 6
  • Usability
  • Feature request
RobKelley 21 Dec 05 05 Oct 21
(0) Remove Array() message on each and every Mailin post? RobKelley 5 25
  • Error
  • Feature request
22 Dec 05 06 Jul 24
(0) Forum post by email - duplicate emails render forum inaccessible jhamell 2 10 28 May 08 11 Oct 08
(0) Mail-in: recognize "from" email and assign action to the correct user Marc Laporte 4 20 sylvieg 21 Jan 07 21 Jan 07
(0) Tracker mail-in (in addition to forum, wiki & articles) Marc Laporte 3 15 MatWho 21 Jan 07 16 Oct 08
(0) allow article mailin to use both header and body Rick Sapir / Tiki for Smarties 7 35 30 Oct 08 30 Oct 08
(0) Record Mail-in events in action log Arild Berg 25
  • Feature request
08 Nov 13 09 Nov 13
(0) Mail doesn't work for wiki BigGosh 6 30
  • Error
  • Patch
15 Feb 07 06 Jul 24
(0) Mailin comment to a page using RE: RobKelley 7 35 RobKelley 31 Mar 07 26 Jun 08
(0) Rejected email are received forever if tiki user is not authorised to use mailin Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist 7 5 35
  • Usability
25 Jun 19 29 Nov 22
(0) forum mailin should update on regular basis Rick Sapir / Tiki for Smarties 6 30 18 Nov 08 18 Nov 08
(0) pop port appears hardcoded to 110 dgm 7 35
  • Error
dgm 02 Oct 07 14 Jun 13
(0) Confirmation / Validation Emails upon registration encoding problem dexl 25
  • Error
  • Regression
08 Sep 09 28 May 26
(0) Adding POP Mailaccount to a forum causes WSOD for that forum Torsten Fabricius 10 50
  • Regression
  • Release Blocker
jonnybradley 23 Mar 17 02 May 17
(0) Tikiwiki mailin is broken in 1.8.5; patches are simple, and attached swampfox 5 25 swampfox 15 Jul 05 06 Jul 24
(0) Bug in registration procedure alain_desilets 9 45
  • Error
koth 17 Oct 09 20 Oct 13
(0) Mail-In to Forum does not follow thread when original post has moved walls1500 2 10 walls1500 04 Oct 06 31 Dec 07
(0) Forwarded messages to a mail-in forum are prefixed with "FW: " walls1500 1 low 5 walls1500 04 Oct 06 12 Jun 07

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