Confused by Error Message From Reply-by-Email

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Jeff Atwood via Discourse Meta:

That sounds correct, per the response message

None of the destination email addresses are recognized

My brain parsed that as “you used the wrong TO:” address. Could you
please consider improving the wording of that?

That e-mail is sent back to users. From perspective of users the
“destination” is the destination e-mail (TO: address) which the user
has sent to (recipient). From perspective of discourse it’s the wrong
From: address.

May I suggest the following wording draft:

We’re sorry, but your email message to
[“discoursereplies+snip-id@domain.org”] (titled Re: snip title) didn’t work.

Possible causes:

  • Do you use more than one e-mail address? Did you accidentally send
    from the wrong e-mail address? Replies by e-mail require to send from
    the very same e-mail address(s) that you signed up for $site.
  • The Message-ID header in the email has been modified.
  • Please make sure that you are sending to the correct email address
    provided by $site.
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