# Gmail is using our notification email address, not the reply-to email

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/gmail-is-using-our-notification-email-address-not-the-reply-to-email/377954
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** email-in
**Created:** [August 9, 2025, 12:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/gmail-is-using-our-notification-email-address-not-the-reply-to-email/377954 "2025-08-09T00:42:50Z")
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### Author: ![nathank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nathank/32/290039_2.png) [@nathank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nathank)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2025, 12:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/gmail-is-using-our-notification-email-address-not-the-reply-to-email/377954/1 "2025-08-09T00:42:50Z")

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When testing something else, I’ve noticed that Gmail isn’t playing nicely with reply by email from our Discourse site. The sent email seems fine:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/3/4/4/344bb1517e1867813312076fc0ecb694cd4e3ebf.png)

However, the Gmail web interface, when I click ‘Reply’, I get the From address, not the Reply-to address:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/2/d/0/2d017f5b375b269d99a9ad41740607b4874279d9.png)

This has also caught out a few of our users, who seem to be using Outlook.

This is my config (using Mailgun / mail-receiver)

DISCOURSE\_SMTP\_ADDRESS: [smtp.mailgun.org](http://smtp.mailgun.org)  
DISCOURSE\_SMTP\_PORT: 2525  
DISCOURSE\_SMTP\_USER\_NAME: [postmaster@mg.spokes.nz](mailto:postmaster@mg.spokes.nz)  
#DISCOURSE\_SMTP\_ENABLE\_START\_TLS: true # (optional, default true)  
DISCOURSE\_SMTP\_DOMAIN: [mg.spokes.nz](http://mg.spokes.nz)  
DISCOURSE\_NOTIFICATION\_EMAIL: [notifications@spokes.nz](mailto:notifications@spokes.nz)

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/0/7/e/07e9bdf0948456302e144908e1a42015486b2851.png)

Am I doing something dumb?

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