# Mentioning groups through email posts

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/mentioning-groups-through-email-posts/35221
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** email
**Created:** [November 3, 2015, 4:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mentioning-groups-through-email-posts/35221 "2015-11-03T16:43:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![stroupaloop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stroupaloop/32/43099_2.png) [@stroupaloop](https://meta.discourse.org/u/stroupaloop)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2015, 4:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mentioning-groups-through-email-posts/35221/1 "2015-11-03T16:43:54Z")

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Is there a way to mention a group of users through a post that’s created using email polling?

This would be a great feature as many of my users respond to threads from their email notifications vs within the discourse implementation.

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### Author: ![Tom\_Newsom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tom_newsom/32/115981_2.png) [@Tom\_Newsom](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tom_Newsom)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2015, 7:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mentioning-groups-through-email-posts/35221/2 "2015-11-03T19:33:38Z")

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This could be possible soon.

> [@Discourse Version 1.5](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-version-1-5/30609/1):
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> Make group messaging a first class citizen in Discourse, allow PMs to groups, allow group mentions (under controlled circumstances)

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### Author: ![tobiaseigen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tobiaseigen/32/539204_2.png) [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2015, 7:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mentioning-groups-through-email-posts/35221/3 "2015-11-03T19:44:13Z")

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This would be a well loved feature on our site as well.

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### Author: ![chapoi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/chapoi/32/537252_2.png) [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 11:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mentioning-groups-through-email-posts/35221/4 "2025-12-04T11:37:05Z")

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