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 and create articles. As admin, click on the Mail-in link in the Admin section of the application menu to get to the mail-in admin section :

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:

wiki-get
Emails to this account type allow you to retrieve wiki page contents. The name of the wiki page must be put in the message subject.
wiki-put
Emails to this account type allow you to replace wiki page contents. The name of the wiki page must be put in the message subject. The original wiki page is replaced by the body of the email.
wiki-append
Emails to this account type allow you to append data to a wiki page. The name of the wiki page must be put in the message subject. The whole body of the email is appended to the original wiki page. Usage example: change history.
wiki-prepend
Emails to this account type allow you to prepend data to a wiki page. The name of the wiki page must be put in the message subject. The whole body of the email is added to the top of the original wiki page.
wiki
Wiki accounts can be used to GET, PUT and APPEND wiki pages, the body of the email is the page content, the subject is used to indicate what to do.
- GET:pagename
- PUT:pagename
- APPEND:pagename
- PREPEND:pagename
article-put
Emails to this account type allow you to post articles. The title of the article must be put in the message subject. The whole body of the email is being used as article header. The topic and type of the article can be specified at the mail-in account configuration.

Other parameters

Active
Says whether the account is to be checked or not.
Allow anonymous access
Says whether anonymous users (regarding of their email address) can use this feature or not. If this parameter is set to 'No', and a user sends a mail to a mail-in account from an adress that is not in TikiWiki users list, Then the system will send a mail to this user saying that he can not use this feature.
Allow attachments
Says whether mail attachments are to be added or not.
Check automatically
If this parameter is set to 'yes' the system will automatically check all active mail-in accounts according to the 'Frequency' parameter.
(Tiki 2.0) Discard to the end from
The end of the message (for a put, append, preprend) will be deleted after the string you give. If you leave this box empty then no text from the body of the email will make it on to the wiki page.