IMAP
Introduction
Restyaboard is an open source alternative to Trello, but with smart additional features like offline sync, diff /revisions, nested comments, multiple view layouts, chat, and more. And since it is self-hosted, data, privacy, and IP security can be guaranteed.
Restyaboard is more like an electronic sticky note for organizing tasks and todos. Apart from this, it is ideal for Kanban, Agile, Gemba board and business process/workflow management. It can be extended with productive plugins
Today, several universities, automobile companies, government organizations, etc from across Europe take advantage of Restyaboard.
This document contains information about how to configure and use IMAP in Restyaboard.
What you'll learn
- How to use IMAP in Restyaboard
- How to configure IMAP in Restyaboard
- How to configure the Gmail/G Suite based email for IMAP
IMAP uses in Restyaboard
FOR ADDING CARD TO THE BOARD
- For adding cards to the board, the board email address will be available on the board page with
Email to board settings
option under the board headersettings
dropdown menu and you can select thelist
andposition
in which you want to insert the card and we have added the below image forEmail to board seeings
menu. - Send mail to the email address of the board and the
mail subject
will be thecard name
and themail body
contents will be thecard description
. - You can add an
attachment
to thecard
by sendingmail
to mail address of theboard
withattachments in the mail body
.
FOR POSTING COMMENTS TO THE EXISTING CARD
- For posting comments to the existing card, the card email address will be available on the Modal card page inside the dropdown menu of the option
share and more
under thesettings
dropdown menu and we have added the below image forsettings
dropdown menu. - Send mail to the email address of the card and the
mail body
will be posted ascomment
in the card. - You can add an
attachment
to thecard
by sendingmail
to mail address of thecard
withattachments in the mail body
.
IMAP Configuration
How IMAP used in Restyaboard
- To create a card for a board and post a comment for a card through configured imap mail
IMAP CONFIGURATION
- To configure IMAP, goto
http://{YOUR_SERVER_NAME}/#/settings
path in your Restyaboard server and chooseIMAP
tab
-
Incoming Mail Server
Mail server (eg., imap.gmail.com)
-
Port
Mail port (e.g., 993 )
-
Email address
To add/reply cards via email you must set up a secret email account with IMAP access. This should support plus addressing and has to be dedicated to handle replying through email feature. Suggested email address is
rbreply@yourdomain.tld
Gmail/G Suite based email Configuration for IMAP
After configuration of IMAP in Restyaboard, if your IMAP Email address is Gmail/G Suite
based email, you should enable the access in the link https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps to allow Restyaboard to read your mails in Email to create cards in the board and add comments in the card.