Setup New Mailsever and Web Front End

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Required features:

1) Support for a traditional email-based list-serve 2) Member’s can invite other members 3) Avoiding any third-party solutions that eventually become disrupted and we have to move again.

Candidate:

A self-hosted, private instance of Discourse on a VPS with a mail server

Features:

• Members can create and manage their own new-member invites
• Optional Web front end for searching, browsing, linking
• Passwordless login option (emails one-time login link)
• Extensive admin/mod tools — allows us to expand the mod team (we need this)
• Extensive API, allowing this group to be used creatively (enables community bots, forum-centric projects, etc)
• Categories, Tags

Migration Strategy (WIP):

• Import old Google Group -- Discourse has a method for this
• Get a few volunteers to jump on a test server and poke around
• Solicit feedback from the group on the tech stack, and setup
• Post an official announcement on this group for the upcoming move and post the new forum info
• "Stage" members on Discourse so they become active when logged in
• Encourage members to join as easily as possible (ideally through an invite link)
• Set this group to read-only

Progress:

• [x] Domain Name(s)
• [x] Install Discourse in Container on VPS (Linode), install notes
• [x] Mail Server, install notes
• [ ] Migrate Google Groups

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Set up mail server at mail.shiny.ooo (primary) and mail.ooooshiny.email (secondary)

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Installed Discourse alongside Mailserver on same server. See install notes

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Discourse option has been deprecated.