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Post by email

@Spuds what are the requirements for that?
Is it an email account with IMAP access enough?

 emanuele knows very little about it and I was wondering how easy/difficult is to set it up... O:-)
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Re: Post by email

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As you know, that is one of the most lightly tested functions, an probably one of the ones with the most variable setups  :-X

Yes the basic setup is access to an IMAP box (my preferred is an email address on the server that you can pipe any incoming email to the processing script), but if you don't have that (and many will not) then you use an external IMAP email box, like gmail.  The system will then access the email via IMAP and then process what it finds.

For IMAP to work you can either set up a cron job on the server to check the IMAP box on some schedule, or if you can't set up cron job, then you can enable the scheduled task to create the faux cron to do the same thing.

There is some information here: https://github.com/elkarte/Elkarte/wiki/Posting-by-Email-Feature  I have not checked that in a bit to see if its still correct.