Hello, we have two groups which each have their own mail-adress for incomming mails. Now I sent an email to group1@hostname.de and in CC to group2@hostname.de. The mail showed right at the admin control center under /admin/email/received but only group1 received it. I repeated this with group1 i…

I’m pretty sure we only post to the group indicated by the first valid-looking e-mail address we find. Arguably, for caegories at least, this is correct behaviour, because Discourse doesn’t have the concept of “a single message which exists in multiple categories”, and while it might be annoying to…

Why would you expect cc: to show up there? The email was not directed To: the target email address. Try sending To: group1, group2

[image] codinghorror: Try sending To: group1, group2 Of course I tried this. Sorry if my point was unclear: [image] GregoryS: Even if I do not use CC and send the mail to group1 and group2 simultaneously, only group1 received it. The two recipients show correctly under /admin/email/re…

This is a question for @zogstrip , then…

Thank you for your clarification. :slight_smile:

[image] mpalmer: Arguably, this is correct behaviour, because Discourse doesn’t have the concept of “a single message which exists in multiple groups/categories”, and while it might be annoying to have your carefully crafted missive only show up in one of the places you expect it to, splitting t…

Yeah, I misspoke on that one – you can have a single PM topic to multiple groups, so if you wanted to support just that, it could work. Multiple categories definitely doesn’t work, though, so you’re then stuck special-casing the “look at multiple addresses” code to PMs, and then handle it different…

Emails with multiple recipients only showing up to one recipient

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GregoryS May 18, 2017, 11:20pm 3

Of course I tried this. Sorry if my point was unclear:

The two recipients show correctly under /admin/email/received and when I hover my mouse over each of them, there is a popup saying "TO".

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Emails with multiple recipients only showing up to one recipient

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