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Hi

I am looking for a WP plugin that woudl support my clients. I would like the plugin to let users to reply to post via email.

Is that possible?

Thank you
Radek

Hello @cimenta

basically this is a nice suggestion but I am not quiet sure how to handle this internally. I think for this kind of stuff you have to write some application which monitors/scans your mail-server because you cannot directly send a mail to a PHP-script. I think this is not even possible with a WordPress-extension as long as you dont connect it with another application via an API which can handle this.

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Hi Asgaros

I would love to have such feature. I am not a guru programmer I can do only bit of coding but I think that using wp_cron https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_cron and php imap functions would do the job http://php.net/manual/en/book.imap.php

I allways subscribe to posts I create or like so I am updated immeditelly. Of course I read the reply on my mobile if the message is included. Quite often I would love to reply without logging into the system.

I am happy to help you as much as I can to develop such feature. Due to my research I’d say that none wp plugin have such feature.

Thank you

Radek

I think that would require a complete connection-interface including configuration-management for your mailserver – which would be rather difficult when you use shared-hosting platforms which only have restricted access to your mail-server.

I am also not sure on how to ensure security because how can you verify that your mail belongs to WordPress account xyz? It is easy to manipulate mail-headers and when an attacker knows the mail-address of an user he basically can spam the entire forum.

In my oppinion thats definitely not a feature which I can implement into the core because not every user has its own mail server and there are too many mail-providers out there which are using different implementations which brings the risk that its not working for a lot of users.

I can only offer to implement this as a custom solution or a standalone-addon one day, but that would require at least weeks of work because I never worked with those kind of techniques before and this is a open source-project on which I am working on in my free time – which is limited.

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