# Best practice for reply by email address

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-practice-for-reply-by-email-address/58687>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [9 Marzo, 2017 01:11 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-practice-for-reply-by-email-address/58687 "2017-03-09T01:11:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![modius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/modius/32/108600_2.png) [@modius](https://meta.discourse.org/u/modius)\
**Post date:** [9 Marzo, 2017 01:11 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-practice-for-reply-by-email-address/58687/1 "2017-03-09T01:11:24Z")

</div>

Continuing the discussion from [Set up reply via email support](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-up-reply-via-email-support/14003/85):

Am in need of a sanity check 😱

I have set up a dedicated Google Apps account with aliases configured in Discourse in the following way:

- `hello@gorgeous.com` → bound to a private group `hello`
- _alias_ `dev@gorgeous.com` → bound to a category `dev`

We’re merging in a mailing list, and the `dev` category will represent that traffic. To create a new post in the category you have to email the alias `dev@gorgeous.com`

Everything is working as expected.. only when i look at my settings for `reply by email address` i have second thoughts:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/7/9/7966f09138f29bbfac20abe8da7a86dbc28f8702.jpg)

All `reply-to` traffic is going to `hello@gorgeous.com` – would i be better off making all `reply-to` traffic go through `dev@gorgeous.com` instead?

At this point it seems counter intuitive to be creating topics through an email address that is different to the `reply-to` address. Has anyone got any real world experience in this area?

---

_[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-practice-for-reply-by-email-address/58687)._