# Email confirmation for message posted via email (Listserv-Style)
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-confirmation-for-message-posted-via-email-listserv-style/324420
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [September 1, 2024, 11:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-confirmation-for-message-posted-via-email-listserv-style/324420 "2024-09-01T23:07:44Z")
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### Author:  [@outofgamut](https://meta.discourse.org/u/outofgamut)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2024, 11:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-confirmation-for-message-posted-via-email-listserv-style/324420/1 "2024-09-01T23:07:44Z")
For those who remain loyal to email and are web-adverse, participating via email only: have Discourse send a confirmation email in the style of ‘Your message has been successfully received’ to confirm receipt. This has been an option with Listserv style lists forever and is very helpful.
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### Author:  [@nobrowser](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nobrowser)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2024, 4:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-confirmation-for-message-posted-via-email-listserv-style/324420/2 "2024-09-03T04:36:15Z")
> [@outofgamut](#):
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> This has been an option with Listserv style lists forever and is very helpful.
Really? I would describe myself as web adverse, and I have been on lots of lists through my work & life, and I still am on more lists than Discourses 🙂 None of the lists I remember had this.
Perhaps what you have in mind is that when you’re subscribed to list, you get a copy of your messages back. But the equivalent with Discourse would seem to be reading your message on the web 😛
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### Author:  [@outofgamut](https://meta.discourse.org/u/outofgamut)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2024, 6:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-confirmation-for-message-posted-via-email-listserv-style/324420/3 "2024-09-03T06:58:32Z")
I think the crowd I’m talking about may be even more web adverse than you, Ian. 😬
This is what I meant:
> Ack – Check this box to report on whether or not subscriptions are set to receive an “acknowledgement” message when they post to the list. For example:
> Your message dated Thu, 2 May 2002 16:08:28 -0400 with subject “My message” has been successfully distributed to the MYLIST list (123 recipients).
[https://www.listserv.net/manuals/16.0/htmlhelp/site%20managers/SubscribersCorner.html#2348127](https://www.listserv.net/manuals/16.0/htmlhelp/site%20managers/SubscribersCorner.html#2348127)
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### Author:  [@Jonathan5](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jonathan5)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2024, 9:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-confirmation-for-message-posted-via-email-listserv-style/324420/4 "2024-09-03T09:33:40Z")
> [@nobrowser](#):
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> None of the lists I remember had this.
Mailman 2 has this option:
> **[7.5 How can I get Mailman to tell me when my post has been received
by the...](https://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/node24.html)**
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### Author:  [@nobrowser](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nobrowser)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2024, 3:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-confirmation-for-message-posted-via-email-listserv-style/324420/5 "2024-09-04T03:36:38Z")
Indeed, I stand corrected.
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### Author:  [@Jonathan5](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jonathan5)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2024, 9:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-confirmation-for-message-posted-via-email-listserv-style/324420/6 "2024-09-04T21:48:34Z")
> [@nobrowser](#):
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> you get a copy of your messages back
To be fair, I imagine most email lists are set up this way.