# Confused about setting up reply by email
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/confused-about-setting-up-reply-by-email/52008
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [2016 年 10 月 25 日午後 2:48 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/confused-about-setting-up-reply-by-email/52008 "2016-10-25T14:48:41Z")
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### Author:  [@anon29908737](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anon29908737)
#### Post date: [2016 年 10 月 25 日午後 2:48 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/confused-about-setting-up-reply-by-email/52008/1 "2016-10-25T14:48:41Z")
I’m reading not to use gmail, but google apps for domain are okay??? . . . but I’m lost on how to get started. Can someone point me to the instructions (step-by-step preferred ;)) . . . [Knittingtoday.com](http://Knittingtoday.com) is hosted through google for work or is it called gsuite now?
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [2016 年 10 月 25 日午後 2:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/confused-about-setting-up-reply-by-email/52008/2 "2016-10-25T14:59:38Z")
> [@Set up reply by email with POP3 polling](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-up-reply-via-email-support/14003):
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> So you’d like to set up reply via email support for your Discourse forum. mega Reply via email is pre-configured and enabled by default on all [discourse.org](http://discourse.org) hosted sites. The guide below only applies to those self-hosting. Good news! Unlike outgoing email, which is completely unsuitable for typical consumer mail services like GMail, Outlook, Yahoo Mail, etc, incoming reply via-email tends to be extremely low volume. Unless you have a truly massive forum with a zillion people replying to no…
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [2016 年 10 月 25 日午後 5:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/confused-about-setting-up-reply-by-email/52008/3 "2016-10-25T17:32:15Z")