# Askbot Project Documentation

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# Sending email to askbot

Askbot supports asking questions by email via the IMAP protocol, answering by email is not yet supported.

Note

This feature is still experimental and some emails will not be parsed, please report any issues at the askbot forum.

To enable the feature, please:

- set up an IMAP mailbox called “INBOX”
- in your `settings.py` file fill out values `IMAP_HOST`, `IMAP_HOST_USER`, `IMAP_HOST_PASSWORD`, `IMAP_PORT` and `IMAP_USE_TLS`
- in the site live settings, enable the feature
- set up a cron job to periodically run command post_emailed_questions. This command will connect to the inbox, and post questions, based on the incoming messages.

The email address to send the questions will be `<IMAP_HOST_USER>@<IMAP_HOST>`. Also, there is a quite strict requirement to the format of incoming messages - described in a response to any incorrectly formatted emails.

Warning

the “INBOX” used to post messages to askbot must be dedicated do not use any other mailbox as all messages are automatically deleted after each processing.