# How can I enable "reply to this email to respond"

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-enable-reply-to-this-email-to-respond/54920
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 29, 2016, 8:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-enable-reply-to-this-email-to-respond/54920 "2016-12-29T08:50:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![Renee\_Alfred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/renee_alfred/32/65560_2.png) [@Renee\_Alfred](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Renee_Alfred)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2016, 8:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-enable-reply-to-this-email-to-respond/54920/1 "2016-12-29T08:50:28Z")

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This is what our users see at the end of the email notifying them that there is a new comment. ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/9/4/947d9cd74d3ccb1a6a66a815ae7b6bb596b82700.png)

And this is what I see at the end of the email when people reply to me at Discourse Meta. Can anyone please tell me how to enable this?

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/2/9/29da09fcc6f1ee09feda4649450225ab169df8d1.png)

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### Author: ![Nam\_Nguyen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nam_nguyen/32/68634_2.png) [@Nam\_Nguyen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Nam_Nguyen)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2016, 9:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-enable-reply-to-this-email-to-respond/54920/2 "2016-12-29T09:01:16Z")

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I think this topic can be useful for you 🙂

> [@Set up reply by email with POP3 polling](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-up-reply-via-email-support/14003):
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> So you’d like to set up reply via email support for your Discourse forum. mega Reply via email is pre-configured and enabled by default on all [discourse.org](http://discourse.org) hosted sites. The guide below only applies to those self-hosting. Good news! Unlike outgoing email, which is completely unsuitable for typical consumer mail services like GMail, Outlook, Yahoo Mail, etc, incoming reply via-email tends to be extremely low volume. Unless you have a truly massive forum with a zillion people replying to no…

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### Author: ![Renee\_Alfred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/renee_alfred/32/65560_2.png) [@Renee\_Alfred](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Renee_Alfred)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2016, 9:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-enable-reply-to-this-email-to-respond/54920/3 "2016-12-29T09:09:37Z")

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Thank you for the prompt reply!!! Gotta change the setting now!

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/c/0/c0bd2eedc933b0404c450d68737b4bde15f6fbc4.gif)

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### Author: ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2024, 12:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-enable-reply-to-this-email-to-respond/54920/4 "2024-06-08T12:45:10Z")

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