# Email response as private message

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-response-as-private-message/98654>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [10월 3, 2018, 5:33오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-response-as-private-message/98654 "2018-10-03T17:33:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Json\_Blob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/json_blob/32/119534_2.png) [@Json\_Blob](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Json_Blob)\
**Post date:** [10월 3, 2018, 5:33오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-response-as-private-message/98654/1 "2018-10-03T17:33:31Z")

</div>

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:

1. User A makes a new public thread on discourse
2. User B receives an email notification of the new topic
3. 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?

---

_[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-response-as-private-message/98654)._