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 …

[image] Reply by email address broken This works as expected and the email now comes from community.forum+@domain.com with the reply-to header also set correclty. How did you set up polling for community.forum@domain.com ??

[image] Reply by email address broken Discourse ignores the Reply by email address if the email address does not contain %{reply_key} That’s expected. The reply_key is what connects the reply with the thing that you’re replying to. If there’s a bug, it’s that it allows you to enter anything wi…

Either you have your own SMTP / POP server or you can forward the emails from domain.com to gmail and have discourse poll gmail.

Thanks for the reply… I referred to that address as your example of what was working. I don’t use gmail or domain.com Yes, I have my own mail server with 4 related addresses 3 of which are forwarded to the 4th. The 4th is polled by discourse. Two of forwarded emails are used on Group A and the 3…

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]

Hi @Lilly thanks for moving some posts around however you marked my issue solved incorrectly. Please remove or change the :white_check_mark: [image] philh: Once I realized this was the only thing that I had not tried some quick trial and error got things working. Setting to “quote” did the tric…

@Lilly closed the PM on this without waiting for a response. hmmm If I offended by sending PM I apologize. My PM response: Thanks Lilly. not about stats. It is about not misleading other users trying to sort incoming mail. Using gmail is a work around method when the SMTP server has issues with app…

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

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