Post Messages via Email

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In addition to posting a thread by clicking the Start a Thread button, forum members can start new threads by sending an email to the forum’s email address, if the forum has been set up to allow posting via email.

Forum members can also reply to messages sent from the forum via email. There is a footer included in each message that includes a link to the thread that the message belongs to.

To start a new thread via email, email the address of an active forum you are a member of (i.e. BuySell@myclub.com). Your email will create a thread. The title will be whatever you have entered in the Subject field of your email.

You can also reply to a forum message that you receive by email. Simply click the Reply button in your email software. Make sure you delete any extraneous text (other messages, footer information, etc.) before you send the email.

Select the Report Email option at the end of the email to report a message to the forum moderator or club administrator using the Report Message page. You will be asked to enter a reason for reporting the message. An administrator or forum moderator will be notified of the report, and can then take the appropriate action (blocking or allowing the message).

Note: When you post a message to one or more forums via email, our server will look at all addresses in the To: and CC: fields to see if any match a forum that the server is managing. Unknown email addresses are ignored. In addition, the “From:” address will be verified against the forum’s membership list to ensure that you are allowed to post. You must send the message from the email account associated with your forum membership in order for the message to be posted into the forum.

If an incoming message has more than five attachments, it is posted with the first five, and a note is sent back to the sender that this was done. If a forum does not allow attachments and an incoming message has them, it is posted without its attachments, and a similar note is sent back to the sender.

The email list options, especially being able to send new messages to a forum via email or reply to existing messages by email, require that ClubExpress be hosting your club’s email accounts. If you currently have email for a domain pointing to a 3rd party email server, configuring this domain for a listserve will not work. But you can also buy a second domain (for example, “MyClubForums.org” for use just with discussion forums.)

The forum system automatically ignores “Out-of-Office” messages that user may create when they go on vacation or are out for other reasons. In rare occasions, if a message being posted by email has language similar to an “Out-of-Office” message, it will not be delivered to the forum. If this happens, edit the message and resend it.