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…

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 [image]

Configuring Incoming Email to Create Category Topics or Group Messages

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philh August 28, 2025, 8:14pm 2

How did you set up polling for community.forum@domain.com ??

Reply by email address broken

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Configuring Incoming Email to Create Category Topics or Group Messages

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