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Allow Discourse to be used as a Mailing List #35

Closed syberphunk closed 8 years ago

syberphunk commented 8 years ago

Discourse requires a POP3 server setup so that people can reply to it via e-mail and behave like a traditional mailing list.

Currently there is a POP3 server setup, however some configuration has caused the forum/mailing list to be locked down and produce 403 error(s) and inability to login. Replying via e-mail also currently doesn't work.

https://forum.hackspace.org.uk/

russss commented 8 years ago

Just a temporary issue, I'm just adding firewalling and it's broken docker, as per usual.

russss commented 8 years ago

The login issues are now fixed, can you try an email reply now?

castaway commented 8 years ago

Login seems fine as does reply on the forum.. reply via email is bouncing, says @idnorton

idnorton commented 8 years ago

Bouncy bounce:

Technical details of permanent failure:
Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the server for the recipient domain forum.hackspace.org.uk [2a03:b0c0:1:d0::611:4001].

The error that the other server returned was:
550 5.1.1 <reply+5ca7ac28c27f4fd6cbc3a1f8809bd222@forum.hackspace.org.uk>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtual alias table

russss commented 8 years ago

OK, try now.

idnorton commented 8 years ago

No immediate bounce so looks like it's gone through?

idnorton commented 8 years ago

Apparently 'Sir not appearing in this forum post' though that could be down to delay between delivery to the mailbox and collection by the POP3 client.

russss commented 8 years ago

Hmm, oddly I haven't seen that one delivered yet. Perhaps Google has delayed it as the previous one bounced?

idnorton commented 8 years ago

@russss Oh could be, be the sensible thing to do.

russss commented 8 years ago

It just came through, and was rejected because the post was too short :)

idnorton commented 8 years ago

I totally didn't hit reply and send that to mailer-daemon@googlemail.com.... nope...

cough

So here's a new error now from discourse:

We're sorry, but your email message to ["reply+5ca7ac28c27f4fd6cbc3a1f8809bd222@forum.hackspace.org.uk"] (titled Re: [UK HSF] [Discourse Help] Mailing list mode reply: CURRENTLY BORKEN) didn't work.

Reason:

Body is too short (minimum is 20 characters)
Body is invalid; try to be a little more descriptive

If you can correct the problem, please try again.

So looks like it's working now, have tried to post again now (with a number of errors posting to noreply@ which is a bit of an odd address for some of the messages to come from)

idnorton commented 8 years ago

And that last one has now appeared.

russss commented 8 years ago

Good lord it finally worked. I've just dropped the minimum post length down to 1 character, it was annoying me too.

idnorton commented 8 years ago

@russss :+1: