Elena Brescacin21h ago

Idea for experiment: mail to fediverse?

@selfhosted

My ambition: having people writing to "username @ domain dot ext" and mail content goes into public, or private, on fediverse "handle @ domain . ext".

Someone already did it? Pros and cons? Disadvantages are more than benefits?

I heard about a trick called "mail2mastodon" but before doing deeper research I first wanted to understand how the effort is, and if it's worth.

#activitypub #fediverse #howto #mail #selfhosting

Show threaddandelion21h ago
did you mean to mark this post as NSFW?
Show threadElena Brescacin21h ago
@dandelion @selfhosted NO! And it's the third person, third time, who tells me this.
Maybe it's Lemmy who marks as nsfw mentioned posts coming from outside its community?
Show threaddandelion21h ago
could be however you’re making the posts is configured to default to NSFW? 🤷‍♀️ I don’t know what platform you’re using, but based on the tags I assume Mastodon?
Show threadElena Brescacin21h ago
@dandelion I'll check my app's settings then. Maybe it's something wrong in them. I'll adjust it, if so. Thanks for warnings (when many people say there's something wrong, it's the case to check our setup)
Show threadD:\side\>

@elettrona @dandelion can confirm the post has a "sensitive" flag on it on the origin server, suggesting it's the sending app (Mona?) that's setting it. Checking the app settings is probably the right move.

There is some confusion on Mastodon around the "sensitive" flag. Ordinarily it only affects media attachments which this post doesn't have, so as far as Mastodon is concerned, the "sensitive" tag here does absolutely nothing except just being there. Lemmy, however, treats it as a NSFW indicator. Which makes sense.

And clients I use, the web UI and Tusky, only show the "sensitive" switch when media is present. But setting it without media apparently isn't an error as far as the server is concerned.

12:53amWeb
Show threadElena Brescacin7h ago
@dside @dandelion FOUND! It was on the publishing preset. It flagged as sensitive content, by default. Do not know why.