Please enable Reply via Email for Codeberg accounts #1562

Feature Description

The main thing im missing from github is the ability to reply to reply to a post via email.

When receiving an email notification about a comment an Issue I would love to be able to reply to the email and have it post as a comment in the codeberg issue.

This is an existing feature

see the documentation on sending and receiving e-mail in the Admin guide. Once configured it works as described.

for sending e.mails: https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/admin/email-setup/

for handling incoming emails:
https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/admin/incoming-email/

We are well aware of this feature. There were some bugs with the implementation found and fixed recently that would end up in support overhead for Codeberg.

Finally, it requires human power to do the setup and test it accordingly.

Could you share the where the bugs are listed so I can share it with the Forgejo repo?

forgejo/forgejo#3496 is the most recent issue I am aware of. I don't have a complete list, though.

I'm also eagerly waiting for this feature 😇 I want people to easily contribute to changes via email without having an account.

via email without having an account.

This is a separate discussion and not planned here.

This is a separate discussion and not planned here.

i know, i was just going to "exploit" this email feature in a different way ;)

Duplicate of #372

Any update on this?

This feature is a big deal, I am surprised it's not available yet.

@tusharhero wrote in #1562 (comment):

This feature is a big deal, I am surprised it's not available yet.

It is available its just not enabled by Codeberg and i dont know who to contact to enable it considering this issue has been open for almost a year with no reply from anyone in charge

with no reply from anyone in charge

What? #1562 (comment) is the reply from me ("someone in charge").

@fnetX wrote in #1562 (comment):

with no reply from anyone in charge

What? #1562 (comment) is the reply from me ("someone in charge").

Could you tell us what the current status is?

What?

almost a year with no reply from anyone in charge.

They didn't say at all.

The status didn't change.

Hi, sorry about the perceived rudeness. Im just curious about the progress of this being tested and wasnt aware you’re on the Codeberg team. Im really grateful for the amazing work y’all do and would like to see it continue adding features like these that let us completely ditch GitHub

Completely agree with @xinnix, you all are doing amazing work bringing this alternative together, and I am super grateful for all the time and effort poured into this. Sorry about the perceived rudeness, indeed, just a friendly bump is all all of this is 😇

Actually replying to issues via email is one thing I very much dislike on GitHub, because some people always use the top-posting (TOFU) style, which is annoying enough when reading the message in an email client, but it really is a nightmare when viewing longer disussions on the issue's page in the browser.

@tumirnix wrote in #1562 (comment):

Actually replying to issues via email is one thing I very much dislike on GitHub, because some people always use the top-posting (TOFU) style, which is annoying enough when reading the message in an email client, but it really is a nightmare when viewing longer disussions on the issue's page in the browser.

What makes you believe they can't do without replying from email?

some people always use the top-posting (TOFU) style

That's not people's choice, but email clients'.

It should be GitHub's job to ignore that part.

Actually, I think Forgejo does, cause I've never encountered that issue on my helpdesk, while I do see that issue on GitHub.

FWIW, there's not really a discussion if it should be enabled or not. It will be enabled at some point; the current status is that getting it to work with our current mail server setup requires a bit more attention to ensure it handles incoming mail in a safely and expected manner.

Ah okay thank you for clarification!! I love codeberg so much!

Reply via email helps me and others so much because with unstable internet when we read a github issue with new comment we can reply without logging in via a web browser which would use more data than we might have access to in the moment.

New to codeberg, but getting a noreply@codeberg and then having to "find" another place on your computer where you /are/ allowed to reply, e.g., from fj.el, that's just terrible!

So, very happy to hear you're working on it! #1562 (comment)

Locking this as I see no use in regularly receiving pings about this.