Discussion forums can be e-mail-enabled so that you can send an e-mail message to a forum’s e-mail address and have the contents of that e-mail automatically posted in the forum, and accessible to other participants.
Categories and forums can appear as Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) shared folders in your e-mail client. You can view messages posted to a forum in the same way that you read your e-mail messages. Examples of mail clients that support this feature are Oracle Connector for Outlook, the Oracle Collaboration Suite Web Access client, and Mozilla Thunderbird. Contact your administrator for more information on how to configure your e-mail client to work with Oracle Discussions.
You can also choose to receive an e-mail notification every time a category, forum, or topic is modified, by subscribing to it.
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