A test topic so that the refugees from the Evolution mailing list can try and sort things out

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As the message says at the bottom, just reply to the message.
Evolution seems to recognise these messages as mailing list messages so
a simple ctrl-R should give you a dialogue box saying so and offering
the option to reply to the originator, everyone or the mailing list.

Mark

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You can’t reply to an author - the email address of the author is never disclosed as far as I can see. You can direct message them - if they have allowed it, but I presume that’s not possible from email (and also might depend on your “trust level”).

You can reply to a post by just replying to the email you received.

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As the message says at the bottom, just reply to the message.
Evolution seems to recognise these messages as mailing list messages
so
a simple ctrl-R should give you a dialogue box saying so and offering
the option to reply to the originator, everyone or the mailing list.

But that just not true. The message may look like it is from a mailing
list because it has some of the correct headers, but the only email
address on the message is a specific discourse email address. There is
no mention of the originator’s email address, or even discourse handle,
in the headers so Evolution can’t reply directly to them. All of the
options: privately, everyone, mailing list - all go to the same place.

P.

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Pete,
Thanks - I have the tags set, and I now have the EMail to NOT be ‘Mailimng list mode’ (which seems counter intuitive to
me). But my head still can’t get round this. If the EMail setting is divorced from the tag/catgory, how does it work if
I watch multiple tags/categories but only want one or two as mail and the others I’m happy to go online for?
I can’t see you can configure this with the options being divorced. Isn’t how you want to see something down to what
you’re watching?

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Thanks - I have the tags set, and I now have the EMail to NOT be
‘Mailimng list mode’ (which seems counter intuitive to
me). But my head still can’t get round this.

Apparently you can mute categories/tags in mailing list mode - which is
the opposite to everything else.

If the EMail setting is divorced from the tag/catgory, how does it
work if
I watch multiple tags/categories but only want one or two as mail and
the others I’m happy to go online for?

I don’t think you can: you get notifications for all the tags you are
watching, and you either get email notifications about them or you
don’t. I can’t see any granularity other than that.

I can’t see you can configure this with the options being divorced.
Isn’t how you want to see something down to what
you’re watching?

Yes, but the PTB consider that people should be engaging in the Gnome
community, I don’t think they can get their heads around people only
being interested in one tiny bit of it. I suspect they are confused
that the Evolution lot don’t want to know about desktop design.

P.

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Thanks again Pete. It’s slightly annoying as I have been on a few of the Gnome lists - for things like Gimp, Evince,
Nautilus - but I don’t necessarily want all as mail, and I don’t want all online.

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I’m not sure I get what you want to do.

Forget mailing list mode, that’s not useful unless you want to get
email for basically all messages posted to Discourse.

Set “Email me when I am quoted, replied to … or when there is new
activity in my WATCHED categories, TAGS or topics” to be “Always”
(emphasis added :)).

For tags you want to get email about, set them to “Watched” and you’ll
get email for every post with that tag.

For tags you don’t want email about, don’t add them as “Watched”. If
you want to check them out on the site, then when you go to the
Discourse website type in the tag that you want to look at and you’ll
see it on the website.

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For tags you want to get email about, set them to “Watched” and you’ll
get email for every post with that tag.
For tags you don’t want email about, don’t add them as “Watched”. If
you want to check them out on the site, then when you go to the
Discourse website type in the tag that you want to look at and you’ll
see it on the website.

It’s a different mindset between a forum and a mailing list. With a
mailing list you need to subscribe in order to see the content and
“watching” has been touted as being akin to subscribing. But you don’t
need to watch a topic in order to interact with it on the forum.

I suppose the granularity that is being asked for is “I want to be
alerted when I go on the site about topics x,y, & z so I can go and
check them out; but topics A & B I’m really interested in and I want to
be alerted by email about them so I can interact with them by email”.

At the moment there’s no degrees of interest in things. It’s all or
nothing.

And of course some of this would be handled if there was some way of
filtering the mails by topic.

P.

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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers music playing in the background

See if I get into any trouble from creating my first post.

Does your reply improve the conversation?

I don’t think my reply improves the conversation, but conversation is a secondary goal of this topic.

I wonder if we like each other’s posts if that will accelerate our reputations to the point where we can do as we would in the mailman list.

Reserving judgement about discourse because:

  • I need more time to decide how much I like it
  • another random bullet point to test out how bullet points work

Time to be cutesy - here’s an emoji (something I use only on Slack): :studio_microphone:

Eagerly waiting the flood of reputation points I will acquire from using an emoji (boldface test).

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On the preferences page, Interface tab, at the bottom there is a checkbox with the label Skip new user onboarding tips and badges. I wonder if we can lose this badge business by checking that box.

There’s always a Save Changes button at the bottom of preferences, even if I haven’t made any changes (or maybe I made some on a different tab of the page). I would hope the button is enabled only if I had made changes.

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Thank you Pete and MarkRS for your replies.
This message is mainly a test for me to see how it works from my MUA
without direct connection to Discourse.
I believe I now understand better how Discourse works.
My issue is now to filter received emails to class them.

PhL

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Thank you Pete for creating this topic.
This is a test message for me to figure out how this thing works. Once I get past that I hope to set my workflow as close as possible from what we had in evolution-list.

Paulo

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I look for to this " Constructive criticism is welcome, but criticize ideas , not people".

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