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Sending email to askbot
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Askbot supports asking questions by email via the IMAP protocol,
answering by email is not yet supported.
.. note::
This feature is still experimental and some emails will not
be parsed, please report any issues at the askbot forum.
To enable the feature, please:
* set up an IMAP mailbox called "INBOX"
* in your ``settings.py`` file fill out values
``IMAP_HOST``, ``IMAP_HOST_USER``, ``IMAP_HOST_PASSWORD``,
``IMAP_PORT`` and ``IMAP_USE_TLS``
* in the site :ref:`live settings <live-settings>`, enable the
feature
* set up a cron job to periodically run command
:ref:`post_emailed_questions <email-related-commands>`.
This command will connect to the inbox, and post questions,
based on the incoming messages.
The email address to send the questions will be
``<IMAP_HOST_USER>@<IMAP_HOST>``. Also, there is a quite strict
requirement to the format of incoming messages - described
in a response to any incorrectly formatted emails.
.. warning::
the "INBOX" used to post messages to askbot must be dedicated
do not use any other mailbox as all messages
are **automatically deleted** after each processing.
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