Post to a forum by email

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.)

Tip: You can monitor the forum to send and receive forum posts using email.

Click Discussions in the project navigation bar.
On the Forum Summary page, click the title of the forum in which you want to create a topic.

On the Topic Summary page, find the email address in the Mailing List field. Send your email message to that address. CollabNet TeamForge 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 email notification. You can reply to the email.

Note: On posting a message to a moderated discussion forum, the message is archived in an unmoderated state, until approved by a moderator. However, the messages posted by trusted users do not require the moderator's approval.

As the sender of the post, you will be able to view the topic title in the All Topics tab, on the Topic Summary page. You must have the post permission on the moderated forum.