Global Email Addresses for microblogging and asking questions

Users may want to initiate microblogs or questions by sending emails. There is a global address for emailing a microblog and a global address for emailing a question.

To enable, add an email handler as described in Email Handler Section. Then:

• ... to post a new microblog to your activity stream, send to Microblog@FQDN_of_your_server
• ... to post a new question to your activity stream, send to Question@FQDN_of_your_server

where “FQDN_of_your_server” is the fully-qualified domain name of the SharePoint server where you added your email handler.

Microblog example

Microblog example

Microblog example

Microblog example

Handling attachments on inbound emails

Aurea Social accepts the attachments on emails that are sent to its endpoints. It stores the attachments in SharePoint and link them in the relevant stream item (or comment).

The example email below is being sent to a microblog address for a community:

Example email sent to microblog address

The result is an activity stream item that looks like this.

Activity stream item is the result for email sent to microblog address

Images get special handling.

If an email is sent with a single image as an attachment, that image is displayed in the post in the stream.

The post shows up like this

Emails with multiple image attachments displays all attachments as links (in the same way that documents are handled).

Embedded images are displayed in the stream in the same position they appear in the email.

Here is the email

Here is the stream entry

When users have signatures that contain embedded images, they are included in the emails to the activity stream.

Signatures with embedded images are in the emails to the activity stream

They look like this in stream

Most email systems have the option to disable including signatures on internal emails. Alternatively, users can learn to delete their signature before sending the email.

Handling bullet points on inbound emails

Here is an example inbound email with bullet points:

Sample inbound email with bullet points

This renders in the activity stream like the image below.

Rendering in activity stream