# Posting via email best practices

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/posting-via-email-best-practices/74100>\
**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [15 Novembre 2017, 1:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/posting-via-email-best-practices/74100 "2017-11-15T13:07:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![jomaxro](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jomaxro/32/126216_2.png) [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)\
**Post date:** [15 Novembre 2017, 2:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/posting-via-email-best-practices/74100/5 "2017-11-15T14:01:51Z")

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I know a number of sites don’t advertise it, but use it in another system for automated reports. For example, users can “generate a bug report” from a game which is then emailed into Discourse using the email-in feature. This way the email is never revealed to anyone.

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