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Updated Using Friendica's email connector (markdown)

MartinFarrent 2012-03-31 08:54:40 -07:00
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You can put an email contact into the private groups you define within Friendica, and posts to those groups will also get delivered to that contact. You can also tick a box in the privacy settings when issuing a public post – and that post will go to email contacts, too. Replies will reach you in your personal stream, but for privacy reasons, they won’t go any further from there. Only you see them, not the other people participating in the respective thread. In future, this is going to change by mutual consent – so that people can elect to follow you and participate in your discussions by email. But we’re not there yet. And it’s going to be optional, and it will require permission from the people communicating with you by mail.
**Note: If Friendica refuses to add a mail contact as described above, try prefixing ``mailto:`` to the address (``mailto:friend@mail.com``). Specifically, this may be necessary for gmail addresses.**
**Technical issues**
There is only one requirement that your site admin needs to fulfil – and that’s making sure that the generic PHP IMAP module is installed on the server machine. On public Friendica servers or sites run on shared hosts, this is normally already the case. If you or your site admin is running a virtual server, the module may not be there yet. Ask your admin about this or install it yourself, if you are running your own site. Shout for help if you can’t work out how to do this. There are plenty of Friendica Support forums with members who are glad to offer advice.