You can configure Discourse to send you email. Click on your avatar in the menu bar next to the search and hamburger icons. Click your user name and then “Preferences”. Select the “Emails” section on the left-hand side menu. Receiving email There are various options available: You can opt to re…

By default, Discourse replies stay on Discourse. So, ‘No’ the general maillist subscriber sees none of the Discourse discussion. Each Discourse user does have the option to carbon copy postings to their eMailbox. It was a feature the Discourse developers added reluctantly. Their Development & Suppo…

Ok. That’s too bad, our communications will be siloed.

We’re still in the ‘proof of viability’ phases with Discourse. If it proves out, the Gramps project might migrate its subscribers here & deprecate the maillist. And there’s even the possibility of flowing the archives into Discourse topics. But that is less likely as it looks like it would create a…

Hello jeff, Ok. That’s too bad, our communications will be siloed. There’s nothing stopping you sending a message to both lists. I would strongly advise against a simple Cc, though.

Please update the steps in the 1st section: first step is that you have to be logged into an account on this Gramps Discourse forum (This thread is visible when anonymously web browsing) Change “Click your user name …” as no user name appeared when browsing in Firefox, only a generic Person icon…

It looks like the menu has changed slightly since I wrote the post.

I thought that was probably the case. If you want to edit the original posting & move the image, I will delete these last 2 postings of mine & the one earlier. It’d probably be best to prune this thread so new visitors don’t feel the need to read an entire thread, just your first posting ![Discour…

Since we were offered a shared Discourse Forum hosting service, our messages are sent from servers that blast out a high volume of mass eMailings. So at least one free eMail host (Yahoo!) has permanently tagged them as SPAMmers. They bounce mass eMails from those Discourse servers. If you are using…

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If we respond via Discourse does it also get transmitted on existing email mailing list?
Or is the discourse totally separate from the email mailing list?

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