If the forum administrator has enabled a mailing list, you can create a forum topic by sending an email message to the forum. You can also reply to a post by replying to the email.
The forum's email address, if it has one, is displayed on the
Topic Summary page. (If a mailing list is not enabled, you will not see an email address on the
Topic Summary page.)
Note: You must monitor the forum to send and receive forum posts using email.
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Click Discussions in the project navigation bar.
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On the Forum Summary page, click the title of the forum in which you want to create a topic.
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On the Topic Summary page, find the email address in the Mailing List field. Send your email message to that address.
Sourceforge maps your email to the forum topic like this:
| Email Field |
Forum Topic field |
| To |
Forum email address |
| Subject |
Title of forum topic |
| Body |
Text of forum topic |
| Attachments |
Attachments |
When a new forum topic is created, project members monitoring the forum receive two email notifications: one called Topic Created and one containing the text of the post. Reply only to the post email.