# Need help/advice on email setup for a self hosted Discourse instance

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-help-advice-on-email-setup-for-a-self-hosted-discourse-instance/262893>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** email\
**Created:** [April 25, 2023, 10:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-help-advice-on-email-setup-for-a-self-hosted-discourse-instance/262893 "2023-04-25T22:06:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![MikeNolan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mikenolan/32/297597_2.png) [@MikeNolan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MikeNolan)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2023, 11:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-help-advice-on-email-setup-for-a-self-hosted-discourse-instance/262893/10 "2023-04-25T23:33:18Z")

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I’m sure I’ll get pushback on this, but I think it is inconsiderate to send email that has no valid reply address.

It’s telling the receiver, “My messages are important, yours aren’t.”

(This is from 30 years as an email administrator, with billions of messages in my collective outboxes.)

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