I am able to poll the set address and create group messages but removing that email from the group and attaching to a category I consistently get the email_reject_bad_destination_address error message. We’re sorry, but your email message to [“team@MMMMMM.org”] (titled testing email to category) d…

Yes, PITA :100: agree The docs are appreciated but some updating would be helpful for the next folks to come along. For example I did not realize the Forwarded emails behavior setting was required and critical. Once I realized this was the only thing that I had not tried some quick trial and error …

Configuring Incoming Email to Create Category Topics or Group Messages

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RBoy (RBoy) August 30, 2025, 10:09pm 6

Yeah it’s a PITA but this is how I got it to work, don’t use a reply key and forward replies from reply@domain.com to something@gmail.com and have discourse poll gmail.com

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Configuring Incoming Email to Create Category Topics or Group Messages

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