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Hexagon

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Joined: 2015-04-22

Posts: 1,213

[Feature] Reply to email to post

Being able to reply to an email you get from the forums to reply to a topic would make things much more convenient because:

- you don't have to click on the link, scroll down, type something in the message box, hit reply
- being able to write a reply while offline and have it instantly post when online
- is a feature that's pretty standard in a lot of forum software

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Different55

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Joined: 2015-02-07

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Re: [Feature] Reply to email to post

I have no idea where to even begin adding a feature like this.

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hummerz5

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Joined: 2015-08-10

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Re: [Feature] Reply to email to post

well I found this

Idk if it fits. But if there's no hook to run PHP on email load, then you'd just have to periodically check like that. Maybe the script could include some meta headers like post ID and an auth hash (?) (could also check against accepted email address, but that's not secure)

each hash could be a per-topic thing. If they get another subscription e-mail, the last hash is invalidated. I'm really not sure how secure this would be, since it's literally floating around in the open.

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Hexagon

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Joined: 2015-04-22

Posts: 1,213

Re: [Feature] Reply to email to post

well I found this

Idk if it fits. But if there's no hook to run PHP on email load, then you'd just have to periodically check like that. Maybe the script could include some meta headers like post ID and an auth hash (?)

That sounds like it could work (it appears that Facebook, Google and GitHub do that) which of course means that the sender's unique auth hash email address has to be private, which shouldn't be a problem. It might mess up email threading, so maybe make the auth hash email in the Reply-To field instead and keep the one we have now on "From".

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