How to reply to staged user through discourse?

[osioke (Osioke Itseuwa)]

By distant user, do you mean staged user?

If yes, then they get notified on any reply to the topic/post they send an email to. See this guide for details, specifically:

@sam

Staged

A special placeholder account which is created automatically by the system for email integration

• No email digests are ever sent
• Automatically watches all messages it participates in and receives notifications of replies
• May reply via email to notifications
• Username and Name are automatically picked
• Account may still register with the same email and “take over” the staged account.
• Forgot password will do nothing …when you attempt to send a password reset to a staged account