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
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
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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).
{end_tabs}
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
Zulip to prefer the plain text version of the email if both are
present (the current default behavior).