The Mail-in feature


Similar: Communication Center Forum and Mailing List Synchronization

The wiki mail-in feature can be used to setup email accounts that can be used to read and/or write (create and/or modify) Wiki pages, create articles and since Tiki22, create tracker items and files (save email as message/rfc822 file in a file gallery - include raw content and all headers). As admin, click on the Mail-in link in the Admin section of the application menu to get to the mail-in admin section :

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The Mail-in admin page

Edit/Add new mail account


In this screen you can set-up mail accounts indicating the POP3 server, the SMTP server and the user-password to be used, it's like any normal email configuration tool with the addition that you can indicate the type of mail account to set-up. Available types are:

Other parameters

Improvements in Tiki12

Mail-in service has been fixed and updated in Tiki12

The new things include


The Mail-in service is a *fast* way to generate wiki pages, if the content is already on email or can be emailed.

Notes:

Permissions

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_admin_mailin Can admin mail-in accounts

Alias names for this page

mailin | Edit wiki pages by email

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