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So be sure to select 'Send as Attachment' within the editor panel for this Quick Post.Here at Streamio, we absolutely love the new version of Basecamp ( by 37Signals and we use it frequently to manage many of our internal and customer projects. To set this up, go to Postbox's Tools menu > Message Filters > New, set your filter criteria, then for the action select Quick Post and then your desired Quick Post.īut note that messages are always sent As Attachment when using a filter action because, by their nature, filter actions run in the background. You can also set up Postbox's email filters to automatically trigger a Quick Post when you receive an email from a specific sender or with a particular subject.įor example, you can configure Postbox to quick post any emails sent from 'Your boss' with 'Project 1' in the subject line to the Project 1 folder. This option is also the best one to use for images embedded into the message body as an IMAP URL. Send via Compose Window will bring up the Compose Window, which you can then edit before sending. For example, images embedded into the message body as an IMAP URL won't show in the destination. eml files as attachments, like Trello or Slack.

#BASECAMP 3 VIDEO HOW TO#

Send should be used when the service doesn't know how to process. Services can then do the right thing with regards to images as attachments, for instance. Send As Attachment is usually the best way to go since you're forwarding the original email.

You can select one of these options under the parent menu to forward to that project. When you access your Quick Posts, those three options will then appear under the parent menu 'Basecamp3'. When setting up the Quick Posts for each project, you can then name them: For example, say you have the following Basecamp 3 projects: Quick Posts can be nested by including 'Parent Menu::' before the Direct Post name. In Postbox, navigate to Preferences or Options > Advanced > Quick Post and then click the + button to create a new Quick Post.Ĭreate a name for the Quick Post, then enter the Basecamp 3 email address. Copy and save to your clipboard to save in Postbox. The email address will be generated for that project. If you already have some forwards saved to a project you can click on 'Forward an email in' in your Forwards tool. An email address will be generated by Basecamp to forward directly to that project and it will look something like this: If you want to forward emails directly to a project without having to tell Basecamp 3, you will need to find the special address for a project in the project's Forwards settings. Emails will be stored in the Email Forwards tool of the selected project. If you use this email address, you will have to tell Basecamp 3 where you want to store the email. The generic email address to send emails to Basecamp 3 is. You will see a list of tools and toggle on 'Email Forwards'. Find and click on 'Change tools (add Email Forwards)'. Go to the project settings and scroll to the bottom of your active tools. Find your Basecamp 3 email addressįirst, the Forwards tool must be turned on in your project. Note: forwarded emails have a limit of 25MB for all plans. With Basecamp 3, you can share and discuss emails with your team, and reply to those emails using your Basecamp 3 email address.

Best of all, you can send content to the service in the background, without having to open up a compose window.

Postbox's Quick Post feature enables you to quickly set up and use send-to-service email addresses, and automatically add the appropriate tags to the beginning or end of the subject line.

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