# Email notifications with incorrect senders

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notifications-with-incorrect-senders/36332
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [4. Dezember 2015 um 16:50 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notifications-with-incorrect-senders/36332 "2015-12-04T16:50:46Z")
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### Author: ![Blaisorblade](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/blaisorblade/32/107357_2.png) [@Blaisorblade](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Blaisorblade)
#### Post date: [4. Dezember 2015 um 16:50 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notifications-with-incorrect-senders/36332/1 "2015-12-04T16:50:46Z")

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Email notifications from my Discourse 1.4.3 forum have an incorrect sender:

```plaintext
From: Some Username <forum-email>
Reply-To: Some Username <forum-email>

```

This is confusing, so many users try to either reply to emails, or even write new emails to `Some Username <forum-email>`. I’d find this acceptable for sites with reply by email enabled — but since we can’t set that up, that’s a problem.

I suspect such invalid email addresses enter their address books (though I’m not sure) — among other things, this seems a regression from what @codinghorror described earlier:

[Gmail remembers email addresses of topic threads, offers as autocomplete](https://meta.discourse.org/t/gmail-remembers-email-addresses-of-topic-threads-offers-as-autocomplete/23797/4):

> [@codinghorror](#):
>
> To clarify here’s what I see
> 
> ```
> From: Sam Saffron <info@discourse.org>
> Reply-To: Discourse Meta <reply+4e0f4f1780b2320eb23f5c100@discourse.org>
> 
> ```
> 
> That is Sam directly replying to me, note that I am not replying back to him but to Discourse Meta there.
> 
> edit: I can confirm that Gmail does add _every_ reply-to person as a “Contact” here:
> 
> ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/5/9/59692f28f8b8256df8024bd19e73b95d2c6f74f7.png) 
> 
> So it’s important that the reply-to be the site, not the user..

To finish up the story: `forum-email` used to be mine, so I got user answers. I had to create a valid replacement email, so I ended up to create a `noreply@` account and setting up an autoresponder with procmail.

Before any of you suggest enabling “reply by email”: I’ve had to reject that already, that’s not supported by our email service and admins won’t add support just for me. And using a third-party email provider is not an option — better don’t ask why.