To help reduce the risk of spam or other mischief, you may need to limit the users who
can post to discussion forums by email.
To leverage the advantages of community collaboration, you should keep your forums as
open as you can. However, some sites require tighter control over who can participate in
discussions. TeamForge enables you to balance openness against privacy along a spectrum of
choices.
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Open the site-options.conf file, the master configuration
file that controls your TeamForge site.
- vi
/opt/collabnet/teamforge-installer/8.2.0.0/conf/site-options.conf
Note: vi is an example. Any *nix text editor will work.
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Add the DISCUSSION_EMAIL_POSTING variable, and give it the value
that reflects the degree of openness your site's discussion forums require.
Use one of these values:
| Value |
Description |
| 0 |
Allow only forum admins. |
| 1 |
Users with roles and permissions. |
| 4 |
All logged in users. |
| 5 |
Allow known email addresses only. |
| 6 |
Allow all site users and guests. |
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Review the variables you have changed, then save the
site-options.conf file.
The value you set here determines the maximum degree of openness to email posting for
all projects on your site. For example, consider a site where project members can post by
email (level 3). For a project that requires extra security, the project administrator can
choose to accept email only from users with the appropriate role (level 1). However, a project
owner cannot accept email posts from a less restrictive category of users, such as all users
who are logged in (level 4).