This Post Arrived Via Email (Discourse WTF)
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Important new(?) discofeature: know if people reply using email!
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That's been here since ... always?
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tht's been there for a while. ever since i started coming here i think.
yes, you can reply to notification emails to make a post reply.
of course there have been bugs that leak details about your email, such as your email address....
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That's been here since ... always?
Really? That was a reply to something I posted and I don't recall seeing it then. It still seems like an odd feature, IMO, given their whole "minimalist interface" thing.
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tht's been there for a while. ever since i started coming here i think.
yes, you can reply to notification emails to make a post reply.
of course there have been bugs that leak details about your email, such as your email address....
I knew you could reply by email, I'm just wondering why Discourse advertises it to the world?
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It still seems like an odd feature, IMO, given their whole "minimalist interface" thing.
You expect consistency from DiscoDevs?
That's cute...
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That's been here since ... always?
Confirming.
Creating topics via email has never been enabled however...
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I knew you could reply by email, I'm just wondering why Discourse advertises it to the world?
Because sometimes the post is broken by the attempts to strip out the "Forwarded message" section, so the icon is saying "if this post is broken, it's an email-reply bug". Admins can click it to see the raw email.
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@rad131304 said:
I knew you could reply by email, I'm just wondering why Discourse advertises it to the world?
Because sometimes the post is broken by the attempts to strip out the "Forwarded message" section, so the icon is saying "if this post is broken, it's an email-reply bug". Admins can click it to see the raw email.
Shouldn't that be a TL4 thing, then?
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No, because the raw email often includes stuff like the route of IP addresses the mail used to get to the server... it's basically a landmine of PII. Therefore, admin only.
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No, because the raw email often includes stuff like the route of IP addresses the mail used to get to the server... it's basically a landmine of PII. Therefore, admin only.
I'm definitely not an admin; are we talking about the same thing? I'm asking why the icon appears at all, not about fixing email reply parsing issues.
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I stand corrected:
def can_view_raw_email?(post) post && (is_staff? || post.user_id == @user.id) end
Anyway, you can read up on the history of email parsing bugs here: https://meta.discourse.org/search?q=raw email
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I stand corrected:
def can_view_raw_email?(post) post && (is_staff? || post.user_id == @user.id) end
Anyway, you can read up on the history of email parsing bugs here: https://meta.discourse.org/search?q=raw email
I really think we're talking about completely different things - I understand why that icon might be helpful for an admin if they see a discoparse; I'm merely confused why any icon indicating the method by which a user posts is shown to someone at TL2. That's all.
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It still seems like an odd feature, IMO, given their whole "minimalist interface" thing.
Yes, it's not clear why they think it's more important to know that someone replied via email more than they need to know to whom someone is replying. Some things we're better off not knowing, I think.
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Admins can click it to see the raw email.
Huh. I clicked on the envelope for the post in the screen shot. It's all base 64 mime encoded bullshit. So that was useful.
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@riking said:
Admins can click it to see the raw email.
Huh. I clicked on the envelope for the post in the screen shot. It's all base 64 mime encoded bullshit. So that was useful.
Does nothing for me, so at least there's no obvious discosecurity going on.
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I'm guessing the priority list is based entirely on "shit Atwood noticed this morning". And he hasn't noticed that recently.
If someone reminded him it existed, I'm sure he'd take it out or replace it with a "coldmap" or somehow make the scrollbar more broken or something...
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I'm guessing the priority list is based entirely on "shit Atwood noticed this morning". And he hasn't noticed that recently.
Eh...it was the raw email like @riking said it would be. That's just the email that Alex's client sent.
If someone reminded him it existed, I'm sure he'd take it out or replace it with a "coldmap" or somehow make the scrollbar more broken or something...
They'd make it look faded out until your cursor got near it.
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Speaking of fading out, we just stamped 1.4 beta8. https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/75ee523a83ef6c4f683df0055f9233a47ed4fec0