# Automatically set category incoming email address based on slug

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-set-category-incoming-email-address-based-on-slug/57841
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [23 februari 2017 om 17:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-set-category-incoming-email-address-based-on-slug/57841 "2017-02-23T17:56:35Z")
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### Author: ![LeoMcA](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/leomca/32/87233_2.png) [@LeoMcA](https://meta.discourse.org/u/LeoMcA)
#### Post date: [30 augustus 2019 om 18:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-set-category-incoming-email-address-based-on-slug/57841/6 "2019-08-30T18:06:29Z")

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We’re finally getting ready to migrate our email-in setup, so I worked on this plugin:

> [@Automatically set category email-in addresses](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-set-category-email-in-addresses/127237):
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> This plugin takes 4 settings: auto\_email\_in\_enabled auto\_email\_in\_divider: Set the divider between a parent category slug and sub category slug auto\_email\_in\_domain: Set the domain of the email-in addresses auto\_email\_in\_append: Append new email-in addresses, rather than overwriting So with the default settings, when enabled, all category email-in addresses will be set to: \<slug\>@example.com or \<parent\_slug\>+\<child\_slug\>@example.com So, with a category under /c/help/faq, this would be hel…

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