Participate in discussions and mailing lists

Create a forum topic
Create a new forum topic to begin discussion of a new subject.

Reply to a forum message
You can post a message in any topic in any forum you have access to. You can also post a message in reply to another message.

Subscribe to a mailing list
When you monitor a discussion forum, you are notified of contributions to the forum by email. Monitoring a forum is the same thing as subscribing to a mailing list.

Post to a forum by email
If the forum administrator has enabled a mailing list, you can create a forum topic by sending an email message to the forum. You can also reply to a post by replying to the email.

Associate forum messages with other items
When a forum message concerns some other CollabNet TeamForge item, such as a document, a tracker artifact, a file release, a code commit, or a task, link the message to the item under discussion by creating an association.

Administer forums and mailing lists
Forum administrators create forums and do what is needed to keep them on track, such as editing or deleting forum posts.