Is there a way to disable the ability for users to reply via email? I find that it disjoints discussions (their reply only shows up in email) and discourages actual interaction within the Discourse community. For example, if there is a public thread and someone replies via email…only the person the…

Search for reply by email enabled in the admin, but… [image] David_Kwan: there is a public thread and someone replies via email…only the person they are directly replying to will receive the reply (via email…rather than in the public thread). this is not how it’s supposed to work. When the s…

Thanks @omarfilip ! @pfaffman any ideas on how we can go about getting this fixed based on the initial installation?

See these howto topics and check that your setup is correct: [image] Set up reply by email with POP3 polling Self-Hosting 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 …

[image] David_Kwan: For example, if there is a public thread and someone replies via email…only the person they are directly replying to will receive the reply (via email…rather than in the public thread) I don’t know how that could be true, as Discourse doesn’t reveal email addresses. The mo…

Hmm, I looked into it and it seems that it’s allowing them to reply indirectly via our company email associated with Discourse email notifications…so it always says the sender is < user name > followed by our company email. @omarfilip do you see any downsides to disabling this? Will it still show t…

Ah, so they see the email notification, and then manually edit the reply-to with the person’s actual email because they know it? Perhaps you should turn on private email (Don’t include content from posts or topics in emails for extra privacy.) Then they’d have to visit discourse to see what it sai…

Wouldn’t VERP change the email address of the recipient?

My guess is that they are replying directly via email by manually editing the To: line after they hit reply. This is only possible because they know the user’s email address (since they’re in the same company). It’s the only explanation I can think of for how they are able to reply directly to users…

[image] pfaffman: My guess is that they are replying directly via email by manually editing the To: line after they hit reply. This is only possible because they know the user’s email address (since they’re in the same company). It’s the only explanation I can think of for how they are able to r…

Sounds like you have a bum install, to me. If you don’t want “accidental” replies to go anywhere be sure you specify an inactive do-not-reply@forum.example.com return email address in your site settings.

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omarfilip January 25, 2019, 7:02pm 4

See these howto topics and check that your setup is correct:

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