# \`enable\_forwarded\_emails\` doesn't behave like conventional email forwarding

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/enable-forwarded-emails-doesnt-behave-like-conventional-email-forwarding/111501
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [March 13, 2019, 5:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/enable-forwarded-emails-doesnt-behave-like-conventional-email-forwarding/111501 "2019-03-13T17:33:46Z")
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### Author: ![downey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/downey/32/166878_2.png) [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2020, 3:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/enable-forwarded-emails-doesnt-behave-like-conventional-email-forwarding/111501/13 "2020-02-26T15:36:43Z")

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OK, so I think I’m finally learning –

If `create_replies` is the chosen value for the `forwarded emails behaviour` site setting, then the original message becomes the opening post in the topic, and anything written in the email **above** the forwarded message, becomes a **reply** to the topic below the 3rd party message. 😕

**Q:** Do any of the other values of this site setting – namely, `hide` or `quote` – just (only) process the original 3rd party message and nothing more?

I am wondering if the attempt to split out these “create replies” might be the cause of some [weird errors I’ve been seeing](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-email-forward-notifications-from-a-different-discourse-server/142586) when sending things in from a Microsoft Outlook client.

PS: I wonder, might this setting be worth a FAQ/howto entry to be linked from the description text below the site setting? It might just be me but I have rarely been so confused with a Discourse setting over the past 7 years. Or maybe I just need more ☕ 😄

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