Frequently Asked Questions

How do I reply to group forum topics / posts via email?

This feature requires installing the BP Group Email Subscription Plugin.

Note: You can only reply to group forum topics and posts via email if you've setup your group to receive either "All Mail" or "New Topics" in BP Group Email Subscription.

Why does Reply By Email rely on traffic on my site?

BuddyPress Reply By Email hooks into Wordpress' scheduling functions and hooks. (Good!) However, the way Wordpress works is these schedules are only fired when a user visits your site. (Not-so-good!)

For example, let's say I schedule BP Reply By Email to run every five minutes. Six minutes pass by and I expect my task to run again, however if no user visits my site, the task will not run. (Tear runs down face!)

This isn't so bad if you have a site that generates decent traffic, but what about smaller-scale sites?

A potential solution is to use an external service to hit your website. (Basically a cron job for our cron!)

Here are a couple of free options that allow you to do just that!

• Pingdom - Free plan offers monitoring one website. Intervals are configurable from 1, 5, 15, 30 or 60 minutes.
• Alertfox - Free plan offers to check your site every five minutes.
• Was It Up? - Checks your website every five minutes.
• UptimeRobot - Checks your website every five minutes.

If you know of any others, let me know and I'll list them here!

Does Reply By Email work with alternate IMAP providers other than GMail?

In theory, yes. But, they hasn't been tested with the plugin so far.

If you decide to use another IMAP provider, you will need to make sure they support address tags.

Some free options include:

• Yandex Mail
• My Opera Mail
• FastMail.fm (Note: Fastmail link is a referral link).

All options above use "+" as their address tag.

The plan is to test these in the future and add preconfigured options to the plugin if they work; if you have a chance to test and can verify they work, please let me know! :)