Reply to individual

This discourse plugin allows Discourse's emails to mimic the GNU/Mailman option "reply_goes_to_list = Poster"

In practice, the plugin does the following:

1. It adds a Reply-To: header that exposes the poster's email address
2. It adds a CC: header that allows a 'Reply-All' action in a mailing agent to respond back to the Discourse topic
3. It replaces all instances of "Reply" with "Reply All" in the client

Future directions:

• Stop "Reply All" from appearing in private messages
• Add "Reply" button that starts private message with poster
• Create option to not expose user emails by having private messages created instead of reply via email.

Setting up a development environment

• Follow instructions from here for a docker-based environment
• Start mailhog: d/mailhog
• In email settings, set the following:
• email time window mins = 0
• reply by email enabled = enabled
• reply by email address = replies+%{reply_key}@example.com
• manual polling enabled = enabled
• In user preferences, set the following:
• default email mailing list mode = enabled
• disable mailing list mode = disabled

Contact info and license

author: Tarek Loubani [email protected] license: aGPLv3