I am transitioning my community away from Yahoo Groups and some of my community has this concern: When you receive a message from yahoo groups, you can reply to just the individual user or to everyone in the group. In discourse you don’t have access (that I know of) to reveal user emails. What is…

Click on the user icon and select the message button. [image] I think everyone but the newest users can do that and then invite others to make it a group message.

This is true. If people want to be able to reply via email to just the sender (and I think that’s what he’s asking), it’s more complicated.

Tapping or clicking the response arrow in the composer now lets you toggle to a PM as well: [image]

Just to add a little update to this one; the ‘New Message’ option from the response arrow was retired: Strange behaviour when creating new Topic from linked Post We have decided to go with [image] Strange behaviour when creating new Topic from linked Post the long term solution here is just…

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) March 16, 2017, 12:25am 4

The recommendation in that case is to modify the email footer to give guidance. Thanks @scombs!

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