# Email notifications reply directly to me (the admin)

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notifications-reply-directly-to-me-the-admin/106818
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 17, 2019, 3:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notifications-reply-directly-to-me-the-admin/106818 "2019-01-17T15:39:11Z")
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### Author: ![fhe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/fhe/32/113345_2.png) [@fhe](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fhe)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2019, 4:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notifications-reply-directly-to-me-the-admin/106818/2 "2019-01-17T16:08:38Z")

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It’s the email address that is configured at `notification email` in your Discourse settings and I assume that you’ve added your email address there.

I have `noreply@mydomain.com` configured as notification email address, indicating that it’s not intended for bidirectional communication.

Another option would be to enable reply by email, which essentially creates a way of posting on Discourse via email. However, this involves a little bit of configuration and setting up a dedicated email account handling the replies.

> [@Set up reply by email with POP3 polling](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-up-reply-via-email-support/14003):
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> 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 on all [discourse.org](http://discourse.org) hosted sites. The guide below only applies to those self-hosting. Good news! Unlike outgoing email, which is completely unsuitable for typical consumer mail services like GMail, Outlook, Yahoo Mail, etc, incoming reply via-email tends to be extremely low volume. Unless you have a truly massive forum with a zillion people replying to no…

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