Setup a mailbox w/ POP3 access for Discourse to use

[renoirb]

Discourse has a feature where we can send an email to an address and the email gets imported in the threads. In order to do so, we need to have a POP3 account.

Since WebPlatform is its own MX, we should setup our mailhub to store those message. This wasn’t planned to be set in place, but we have what’s required to do so.

Estimated steps

• Setup a mailbox (e.g. [email protected]) in mail.webplatform.org (mail) and a Maildir to store those emails
• Setup mailhub with a good-enough POP3 account to retrieve messages in the Maildir
• Allow only access to POP3 box from private network
• Configure Discuss

TIme estimate

• Initial: 3h

Dependencies

• Parent Discuss prepare migration and adjust settings #152
• Siblings Make Discourse have automatic database backup #154

[renoirb]

Could be done also while working on:

• Set in place web based email archive viewer for system emails #128
• Configure system emails to be saved on mail node, make logstash read through IMAP plugin #127

[renoirb]

Dropping the ball, discourse.wicg.io has been put in place.