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Welcome to our blog. We regularly publish new examples of how you can use mailto.wiki here on this blog.

So this is the place to go if you want to go to get inspired and maximize your usage of mailto.wiki.

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If you made it to this website you’re probably aware of our add-on mailto.wiki – Email for Confluence that allows you to create pages and blog posts from emails in Confluence Cloud, Server and Data Center. It is available on the Atlassian Marketplace. What you might n0t know, is that you can now also append incoming emails to existing pages instead of creating new pages. In combination with the templates settings you can configure mailto.wiki to only add attachments to an existing page. Which is a feature some of our customers have asked for. For this tutorial let’s assume that
Power Automate is a service from Microsoft that allows you to fully automate regular work steps by creating automated workflows between applications and services. Microsoft already offers a variety of connectors, but unfortunately Confluence is not yet included. Nevertheless, there are ways you can include Confluence in your workflows with Power Automate. One of them is with our add-on mailto.wiki – Email for Confluence. Disclaimer: We are the developers of mailto.wiki – Email for Confluence which is part of the solution below. Mailto.wiki offers you the possibility to send emails to your Confluence instance. Microsoft Power Automate is able to include
QuickBooks is a popular bookkeeping application developed by Intuit. It is primarily used by little and medium-sized organizations and is available as an on-premise and as a cloud-based version. It can be used to invoice clients, paying bills, producing reports and planning charges. QuickBooks can create monthly and weekly reports. But not everybody in your organization might have access to QuickBooks. If you use Confluence as a wiki, you might want to publish reports there. We can do that with the help of mailto.wiki a Confluence Add-On that allows creating Confluence pages from emails. This tutorial will show you how
Sometimes you want to stay up-to-date on certain topics, but you don’t want to waste time every day manually searching for the latest information. Instead you want to be notified when new content is available. In this case you might want to subscribe to a RSS feed. A RSS feed is a chronological list of articles, videos or audio tracks such as news or podcasts. A well set up RSS reader will save you a lot of time by informing you when new content, that is relevant to you, is available. A few common RSS readers are: Feedly, NewsBlur and
Our add-on mailto.wiki allows you to Email for Confluence Cloud. If you have just started using the plugin and want to import a lot of existing emails into Confluence, this guide is for you. Mailto.wiki allows you to register your own email address ending in @mailto.wiki. Emails you send to this address will get automatically posted as pages or blog posts in Confluence. You may think that you need to forward each email individually to your mailto.wiki address. This would be a real nightmare if you have a large number of emails to import. In this case, we have good
Microsoft OneNote is a versatile software whose primary feature is creating digital notebooks. Features like automatic cloud synchronization, the ability to take notes on the spot or collaborative work makes OneNote a popular program for many users. However, since not everyone uses Microsoft OneNote, it is often necessary to convert files to another file format and upload them to another platform, such as Confluence. There are multiple possibilities to transfer pages from OneNote to your Confluence instance (Cloud, Server or Data Center). For example, you could first export the OneNote files to Word and then import them back into Confluence.
Submitting help requests via email is great for customers. It’s easy, everybody knows how to use email and nobody wants to sign up for some extra system just to ask a quick question. However, for your team delivering support managing a mailbox full of support requests can get quickly messy. A ticketing/help desk system that allows tagging requests, track state and search through existing issues to find a solution probably works best. Luckily you can have both, a modern Service Desk software coming with all these options and allowing customers to submit issues via email. Atlassian has its own service
Jira Automation is an Atlassian plugin to automate repetitive tasks. It is very widely used and drastically simplifies common tasks. For example, you can have issues with a priority greater than Medium sent to you at the end of every week or auto-assign certain tickets to a special team. Jira Automation currently has no Confluence connector and Atlassian has stated that they currently are not planning to add a Confluence integration (see the links at the end). Solution Disclaimer: We are the developers of mailto.wiki – Email for Confluence which is part of the solution below. If you, however, don’t want
{{CODE_1}} While Atlassian’s Jira supports creating content via email out of the box, Confluence does not. However there are plugins available that allow you to generate pages and blog posts in Confluence Cloud & Server from emails. This blog article aims to give you an overview of the available add-ons and Atlassian’s own efforts to tackle this issue. Disclaimer: We are the developers of mailto.wiki – Email for Confluence Build in Support Two official tickets track the progress of Atlassian’s own efforts to add support for emails, one for Confluence Cloud and one for Confluence Server. They are both from