# Personal Message Replies Not Displaying in Inbox When Initiated via Auto-Quoted Post **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/personal-message-replies-not-displaying-in-inbox-when-initiated-via-auto-quoted-post/367043 **Category:** Support **Tags:** personal-messages **Created:** [May 21, 2025, 12:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/personal-message-replies-not-displaying-in-inbox-when-initiated-via-auto-quoted-post/367043 "2025-05-21T12:46:53Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 8
### Author: ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger) #### Post date: [May 21, 2025, 2:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/personal-message-replies-not-displaying-in-inbox-when-initiated-via-auto-quoted-post/367043/8 "2025-05-21T14:58:20Z")
Reply-by-email is a feature you can enable (or may already be enabled depending on your hosting) that allows people to reply to the notification email and it will be magically linked up and placed in the correct topic/pm when it arrives at your forum (I misspoke in the previous post, it’s not a special link they press, the magic happens behind the scenes). You get a footer like this in the email: ![This image shows an email interface detailing a personal message reply chain focusing on testing PM (Personal Message) replies within an email platform. (Captioned by AI)](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/2/5/9/259b26ec3984779fed15951f5e2bf91fe0429a3d.jpeg) There’s a bit more info here in case you haven’t got it set up yet: > [@Set up reply by email with POP3 polling](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-up-reply-by-email-with-pop3-polling/14003): > > So you’d like to set up reply via email support for your Discourse forum. mega Reply via email is pre-configured and enabled by default on all [discourse.org](http://discourse.org) hosted sites. The guide below only applies to those self-hosting. Good news! Unlike outgoing email, which is completely unsuitable for typical consumer mail services like GMail, Outlook, Yahoo Mail, etc, incoming reply via-email tends to be extremely low volume. Unless you have a truly massive forum with a zillion people replying to no… (Though I have the mail receiver version - [Configure direct-delivery incoming email for self-hosted sites with Mail-Receiver](https://meta.discourse.org/t/direct-delivery-incoming-email-for-self-hosted-sites/49487)) --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/personal-message-replies-not-displaying-in-inbox-when-initiated-via-auto-quoted-post/367043)._