help: Better highlight email gateway configuration is required.

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Tim Abbott 2021-05-14 13:25:28 -07:00 committed by Tim Abbott
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# Message a stream by email # Message a stream by email
You can send emails to Zulip streams. This can be useful !!! tip ""
This feature is not available on self-hosted Zulip servers where
the [incoming email gateway][email-gateway] has not been
configured by a system administrator.
[email-gateway]: https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/production/email-gateway.html
You can send emails to Zulip streams. This can be useful:
* If you have an email that you want to discuss on Zulip * If you have an email that you want to discuss on Zulip
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1. Send an email to that address. 1. Send an email to that address.
!!! warn ""
If you don't see the **Email address** section, most likely your server
administrator has not configured an
[email gateway](https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/production/email-gateway.html).
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The email subject will become the Zulip topic, and the email body will The email subject will become the Zulip topic, and the email body will
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* **.prefer-text**: Similar to `.prefer-html`, but explicitly asks * **.prefer-text**: Similar to `.prefer-html`, but explicitly asks
Zulip to prefer the plain text version of the email if both are Zulip to prefer the plain text version of the email if both are
present (the current default behavior). present (the current default behavior).