# Email Notification recipients unclear when PM is sent to multiple users

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notification-recipients-unclear-when-pm-is-sent-to-multiple-users/26934
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** email
**Created:** [29 Março , 2015 00:52 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notification-recipients-unclear-when-pm-is-sent-to-multiple-users/26934 "2015-03-29T00:52:30Z")
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### Author: ![LeoMcA](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/leomca/32/87233_2.png) [@LeoMcA](https://meta.discourse.org/u/LeoMcA)
#### Post date: [20 Fevereiro , 2017 09:07 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notification-recipients-unclear-when-pm-is-sent-to-multiple-users/26934/27 "2017-02-20T09:07:08Z")

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> [@sam](#):
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> I would be much more open to an option that adds multiple duplicate reply keys to an email to have in all the names into the to field of the email.

This has been my favourite, “most-email”, solution so far.

> [@sam](#):
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> It is a slight departure from the way email works though cause you will not have a way to “just reply” to one of the people.

> [@downey](#):
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> That is true, and I could see some disastrous scenarios where someone tried  
> to remove others from the email distribution when doing a “Reply All” and  
> were embarrassed or worse when that reply went to all the recipients!

Does this have to be the case?

I see the solution being: if a reply lacks all of the reply keys it was sent out with, a new private message is created, linked to the old one, which doesn’t include any of the users or groups associated with the reply keys which are lacking from the reply.

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