# Need help with my mailing list

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-help-with-my-mailing-list/279996>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** email, mailing-list\
**Created:** [September 25, 2023, 1:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-help-with-my-mailing-list/279996 "2023-09-25T13:29:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2023, 1:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-help-with-my-mailing-list/279996/4 "2023-10-09T13:55:06Z")

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> [@Habib](#):
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> just like members of the specific mailing list received emails on a specific topics in their inboxes, they can reply to it, either through their emails directly or via the web but the response be received by the sender

They can reply directly to the sender only because the sender’s email address is available in the From: line of the message. Discourse does not share the sender’s email, so there is no way to reply directly to the sender via email.

I have developed this plugin: [GitHub - pfaffman/discourse-email-include-address: Include email addresses on emailed notifications · GitHub](https://github.com/pfaffman/discourse-email-include-address) for another community whose users don’t want to use Discourse but instead want a mailing list. It hasn’t been updated in 3 years (as I suspect is true for the Discourse instance that I developed this for) so there is a good chance that it is broken.

If you fix it, I’ll welcome a PR. If you need help fixing it and have a budget, you can contact me directly.

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