[ARCHIVED] Is it possible to forward an email to a Canvas Discussions or Conferences?

[klseto]

I get a number of job and internship opportunities in my email inbox, and I'd love an easy way to share them with students without spamming their email. Is it possible to forward emails from outside Canvas into a dedicated (e.g. job board) Discussion or Conference within Canvas? It's way too time consuming to download all urls, attachments, etc. and then upload them as messages, but it'd be great if I could just forward them. All help appreciated!

[Robbie_Grant · Accepted solution]

 @aksahal ‌,

By design, you cannot send content from an external email back into Canvas unless you are replying to a notification.  Even then, attachments do not move from the external email into the Inbox.  There are APIs that allow you to add content to different tools, but it will take someone familiar with them to use them.

Robbie

[klseto]

Thanks Robbie, that's helpful. It would be great to add this feature in the future if possible. I know Slack and other platforms have ways to send emails into the platform, and then they can be moved within the platform to other sites (like discussions). Thanks again.