# Email response as private message **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-response-as-private-message/98654 **Category:** Support **Created:** [October 3, 2018, 5:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-response-as-private-message/98654 "2018-10-03T17:33:31Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### Author: ![omarfilip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/omarfilip/32/208019_2.png) [@omarfilip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/omarfilip) #### Post date: [October 3, 2018, 5:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-response-as-private-message/98654/2 "2018-10-03T17:59:24Z")
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. See this: > [@Difficult to tell that watched category notifications are to the forum](https://meta.discourse.org/t/difficult-to-tell-that-watched-category-notifications-are-to-the-forum/96418): > > I’ve got a community of mostly older and non-technical users. Several times people have responded to email notifications to a public post as if the notification were sent to them rather than to the forum (or the person that the message was a reply to). In gmail, for instance, I see this: If I expand “to pfaffman” I see that the message was sent to my email address, which still makes it look (to someone less familiar with Discourse than I am) like David is replying to me personally rat… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-response-as-private-message/98654)._