# Forcing email context - input requested

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/forcing-email-context-input-requested/25577
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** email
**Created:** [February 23, 2015, 6:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forcing-email-context-input-requested/25577 "2015-02-23T18:08:13Z")
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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 24, 2015, 2:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forcing-email-context-input-requested/25577/25 "2015-02-24T14:35:29Z")

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Y’all are on the right track here; this is great to see. We get a ton of complaints about the lack of proper threading in the “previous replies”. It’s got to be obvious to the reader what the current notification is replying to, since inline replies aren’t possible. 🙂

> [@"Previous Replies" in email notifications needs threading](https://meta.discourse.org/t/previous-replies-in-email-notifications-needs-threading/25338):
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> Not sure if bug or feature … depends on one’s view. Background: When getting an email notification from a post, the “Previous Replies” only include the most recent replies. This can be meaningless (and worse, terribly confusing) if someone is replying to an earlier post in the topic. Paging @techAPJ or other fans of Discourse email hacking. Reproduce: Have someone reply to your post in a topic later, after other replies have been added to the end of the topic. Expected Behavior: Get a not…

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