How to post a comment by email

Key point: Once you understand how identifiers work, every document and fragment can be an email address.

Prerequisites

For PageSeeder to process an email message, one of the following conditions must be true:

  1. The “from” field of the message must match the email address of a group member.
  2. The group must be configured to accept mail from non-members.

How to post a comment on a document – by email

While sending an actual email message is unlikely to require any explanation, getting the address is easier with some guidance. There are two ways to do this:

  1. Select the “document discussions” icon at the top of right sidebar to open the document discussions panel. Click the icon to copy the email address for the document and open your mail client (depending on how it is configured).
  2. Or, manually assemble the email address using the URI ID for the document, which is found on the document info and metadata panel when you click the icon in the right sidebar. Once the URI ID is known, the message can be sent to the address of the whole document by adding “-default”, followed by the server name – see the following:
205512-default@ps.example.org

How to post a comment on a fragment – by email

You can also put the fragment ID in the address. To lodge a comment at the third fragment in the document, send email to the following address:

205512-3@ps.example.org

How to post a comment on a group – by email

You can manually assemble the email address using the project name followed by the group name, then the server name. See the following example:

acme-specs@ps.example.org

For managers: Managers can also see this email address at the top of the group configuration page.