Forums

Mailocity has forums at /forum (also Forums in the bar on the left of webmail, with Show advanced options on): the platform's own, which everyone can read, and each team's.

Webmail and the team manager show Forums only while your team has forums turned on. They are on when the team's plan includes them, its Zappocity add-ons don't remove them, and the team's owners and admins have not turned them off under Features and sharing (Features on for everyone). While they are off, the link, the team's forum settings and its own forum address are hidden, and the address's DNS record is taken out if automatic DNS publishes it.

Reading and posting

Anyone can read the platform's forums, signed in or not.
To post, sign in with your mailbox (Sign in on the forum page). Any mailbox can start topics and reply in the platform's forums, except in a closed forum (such as announcements), where only staff start topics.
Posts are written in Markdown: **bold**, *italic*, code , [links](https://...), lists, quotes and code blocks. Any HTML is shown as text, and links can only go to web and mail addresses.
A post shows your display name (or the part of your address before the @), never your address.
You can edit your own posts (unless the topic is locked) and hide them.
At most 30 posts an hour.

Team forums

A team whose plan includes Forums can have its own forums. The team's owners and admins make them on the team's page in the team manager (Forums → New forum) or with corpsuite tenant forum create TENANT slug=general name=General:

Who reads it: the team's members (the default), or anyone. Only members post either way.
Only moderators start topics: for announcements.

Owners and admins moderate their team's forums on the forum page itself: Pin, Lock and Hide on a topic, Hide and Show on any post. Hidden posts keep their place in the topic, marked as hidden; only moderators see their text.

If the plan stops including forums, the team's forums are kept but not shown until it does again.

For staff

The admin panel's Forums page makes and changes the platform's forums (corpsuite forum create slug=news name=News closed:=true). Staff moderate any topic or post with corpsuite forum topic set TOPIC-ID locked:=true and corpsuite forum post set POST-ID hidden:=true (or PATCH /v1/forum-topics/{id} and /v1/forum-posts/{id}).

Addresses

The platform's forums can have a host name of their own, such as discuss.mailo.city (Settings → Host names and HTTPS → Forums, discussHost).
With Team sites under set (teamSiteBase, such as zappo.city, and *.f.zappo.city pointed at the server), every team with forums has <team>.f.zappo.city, showing its public forums to anyone.
A team can also use a name on one of its own proven domains, such as forum.acme.com (team page → Forum and wiki addresses, corpsuite tenant sites set TENANT forumHost=forum.acme.com). Point its DNS at the server; the certificate comes on the first visit.

Members sign in to /forum from webmail to read members-only forums and to post.

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