What is Confluence Email Gateway?

[Deleted user]

We noticed a disabled System plug-in in our Confluence 5.1 (download) called Confluence Email Gateway. We enabled it, and now we have this new button in the Create dialog:

When you click on that, you get

I would love to use this feature, but maybe it is only in development? There is no help anywhere on the web for how to set it up - we tried setting up a POP email account in the back-end, setting up the scheduled task, etc, but couldn't get it to work.

Does anyone know how to work this?

[BernardoA · Accepted solution]

Actually this plugin is disabled in Confluence 5.1, as Atlassian is still working on it, we hope to see this plugin's documentation soon. :)

[kat]

Hi Adam,

The Email Gateway is a feature that's still in development, sorry about that. We're working on it but don't currently have a timeline for when it will be shipped. Thanks for the feedback though, it's good to know that people are interested in having the functionality in Confluence!

Cheers,
Anna

[Mark Armitage]

Any timeline yet?

[Eric_Mertens]

Aside from timeline (ETA) i am also interested in the intended usage/functionality of the addon feature. What is the idea behind it ... and yes i can assume many things based on the name itself. But we all know what comes from "assumptions " .......

Data --> Information --> Knowledge  ......

[antigone klima]

Hello! Where are we on this, please?

[Sven]

Now we have September 2014 and it's still in development?

(just upgraded to 5.5.4 and discovered this disabled Plugin, too)

???

[Rick van Twillert (TMC)]

And again 2 years later... will this be a Confluence 7 feature?

[Robert Domingcil]

Hello, 

It's two year later. I see this in system add-on's. Do we have documentation for this?