I have a new discourse community starting up and we’re trying to support mailing list users as best we can.
A user has asked if they can respond to a public thread notification email privately, as a private message to the poster who made it. That word-soup sounds confusing so here’s steps:
User A makes a new public thread on discourse
User B receives an email notification of the new topic
User B has two options
reply to the email which makes a public response
or
go to the discourse website and click the username, click message, and then type their message as a private message.
Is there a shorter, email direct way of achieving that last bullet point?
I don’t know if that’s possible, but users sometimes get confused about the intended recipient when replying by email. If a Public post —> Private email reply is possible, it should be very conspicuous where the message is going.
@Json_Blob you can use the plugin here, which will expose the sender’s email.
@pfaffman In order to keep email addresses private, would it be possible to replace the reply-to with an email alias that sends a DM? DMs are already sent and can be replied to via email.