How to Mail in MYOB Wiki Content

To mail in content for this wiki, send it to wiki[AT]myob-users[DOT]org.

Mailed-in content will be placed in the wiki system with a file name equal to the Subject header of the mail. If that file name already exists, new content will be appended to the file.

It is suggested that when new content is mailed in with a new file name, an additional mail with the subject line of "Mailed-in" (no quotes) be sent in, with the text of the mail being any plain text followed by the subject text enclosed in double parenthesis. If the new subject was "How may I use the MYOB manual as a doorstop?", then the second mail would have text of
link: ((How may I use the MYOB manual as a doorstop?))
In addition, comments may be added to the second mail, but outside the double parenthesis. Such as

For a good laugh, read this: ((How may I use the MYOB manual as a doorstop?))

(There is a "feature" in this wiki software that converts a link to a wiki page into the text of that page, which is then copied in its entirety to the mail-in page *if* there is no other text before that link. So, for example, simply putting "link:", without quotes, before the link in double parentheses works properly. Or any other descriptive text.)

(Why the double parentheses? Wiki syntax lesson one: entering a name in double parentheses causes the software to present it to the reader as a link to the page with that name — or to an editor which can be used to create the page. You can tell the difference: in the second case the name is not a link, only there is a question mark at the end which links to the editor.)

(And how in the world did I write this so that the double parentheses were not presented as a link? Lesson two: if you see something about a wiki page format that interests you, open it with the edit tab and see what the raw text looked like. And there is also the quick help tab, which will put help information at the bottom of the edit window. And if you don't see an edit tab, you are not registered and logged in, which you must be in order to edit pages.)

The Mailed-in page will then automatically become an index to mail-in pages. That page is here: Mailed-in.

One more caution. Unless you want your signature to be part of the wiki pages, leave it off of mail going into the wiki. If your signature includes your email address, you might end up getting a tad more spam if you allow your signature to be included.

Likewise, if you are sending in a mail with quoted material or that otherwise includes somebody else's email address, it would be a courtesy, at the least, to replace that email address with something like (email address deleted).

The idea is that readers of the MYOB user support mailing list on smartgroups.com can take questions and answers from the list and put them on the wiki with minimal effort, thus making it easier to build a support system.

You do *not* have to be registered to submit content by email. If a problem appears, we can change that.