This might just be a personal failing, but I’m a bit confused by some of the error reporting I’m getting after setting up reply-by-email. When someone replies to a message from an e-mail address not associated with their account, the error message (on a self-hosted Discourse instance) might be the …

We’d have to validate each address right?

[Bild] codinghorror: Why would Discourse accept a random email address, not matching any valid user account on the target site? :thinking: I’m still struggling to understand why Discourse trusts/validates the From: header when it can be so trivially spoofed? The reply id header provides a us…

[Bild] ChrisBeach: legitimate users to get confusing rejections to their post-by-email attempts if they happen to reply from a different email address Email is identity. A “different email address” is like saying “different DNA”.

I have lots of email addresses, and so do some of my users. I’m sincerely not trying to pick a fight here. I’m just slightly burnt by this issue as it contributed to a very important member of one of my forums choosing to no longer contribute to the forum

Then you should be advocating for movement on the multiple email address setup per user, scroll up and do some reading perhaps?

Unfortunately I don’t know if the proposed feature would solve the problem experienced on my Discourse instance. In my case the user is the chairperson of a civic society. She had two email addresses and two Discourse accounts (one for each address). One account represented her personal identity, a…

[Bild] ChrisBeach: She had two email addresses and two Discourse accounts (one for each address). One account represented her personal identity, and other was for “official” posts on behalf of the civic society. Couldn’t you just merge the accounts so one of the email addresses becomes a seco…

[Bild] downey: Couldn’t you just merge the accounts so one of the email addresses becomes a secondary? I could, from a technical point of view, but it is intentional that the user is able to post under two distinct identities (personal / on behalf of civic society)

Yeah. Sometimes people do get stuck in that scenario but I’d probably call it more of a corner case than an edge case :smile: Am I understanding right that this person effectively has two identities, but both of them are ending up in the same email account for some reason? If that’s true, it seems …

I agree, it’s a corner case, and if she wasn’t such a prominent user it wouldn’t have been such a big deal. In order to create two Discourse accounts, we used the gmail dot hack so she could create two email addresses for her gmail mailbox, in order that she could create two Discourse accounts. Wh…

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Die Nachricht, die ich in diesem Fall erhalte, hat den Betreff **E-Mail-Problem – Unbekannte „An:

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