{"id":722,"date":"2009-08-22T07:49:25","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T11:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apps4rent.com\/support\/?p=722"},"modified":"2024-10-01T12:39:14","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T12:39:14","slug":"setting-up-a-sharepoint-discussion-board-to-receive-e-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/kb\/article\/setting-up-a-sharepoint-discussion-board-to-receive-e-mail","title":{"rendered":"Setting up a SharePoint Discussion Board to receive e-mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>How to set up a SharePoint discussion board to receive e-mail?<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nIf the participants belong to a SharePoint group that has an e-mail distribution list, a discussion board can be a part of the e-mail list. Then, when the participants send e-mail to members of the group, their discussions are automatically added to and archived in the discussion board on the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site.<\/p>\n<p>The following procedure enables an existing discussion board, such as the default Team Discussion board, to receive e-mail. You can also choose this setting when you create a new discussion board.<\/p>\n<p>1. If the discussion board is not already open, click its name on the <strong>Quick Launch<\/strong>.<br \/>\n2. To change the settings for this discussion board, on the <strong> Settings<\/strong> menu , click <strong>Discussion Board Settings<\/strong>.<br \/>\n3. Under <strong>Communications<\/strong>, click <strong>Incoming e-mail settings.<\/strong><br \/>\n4. Under <strong>Enable<\/strong> this list to receive e-mail, click <strong>Yes<\/strong>.<br \/>\n5. In the E-mail address box, type a unique name to use as part of the e-mail address for the discussion board.<br \/>\n6. Choose any other settings that you want, such as whether messages sent in e-mail should keep their attachments (such as pictures or documents) or whether the original e-mail message should be saved in the discussion board as an attachment.<br \/>\n7. Click <strong>OK<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong> If someone set up your SharePoint group to receive e-mail, your discussion board may already have its own e-mail address. If so, you should make a note of the address and then confirm with your site owner or administrator.<br \/>\n\u00a2 If you do not see Incoming e-mail settings, your site may not be set up so that lists can receive e-mail. For information, see your administrator.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">With the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/sharepoint-hosting-plans-comparison.html\">best SharePoint hosting price plans<\/a><\/strong> in the industry, Apps4Rent provides any sized business the power to integrate the virtual collaboration technology into their business model and streamline communications at a minimal SharePoint hosting price rate of $8.95 per month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to set up a SharePoint discussion board to receive e-mail? If the participants belong to a SharePoint group that has an e-mail distribution list, a discussion board can be a part of the e-mail list. Then, when the participants send e-mail to members of the group, their discussions are automatically added to and archived [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,838],"tags":[841,842,840],"class_list":["post-722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sharepoint","category-sharepoint-discussion-board","tag-discussion-board","tag-discussion-board-e-mail","tag-setting-up-discussion-board"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24563,"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions\/24563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}