# Reply by email - additional addresses **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-by-email-additional-addresses/125891 **Category:** Support **Created:** [August 15, 2019, 2:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-by-email-additional-addresses/125891 "2019-08-15T14:46:11Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 10
### Author: ![omarfilip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/omarfilip/32/208019_2.png) [@omarfilip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/omarfilip) #### Post date: [August 15, 2019, 5:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-by-email-additional-addresses/125891/10 "2019-08-15T17:35:49Z")
It’s possible in Discourse to have a secondary email from which users can reply. Have the receive-only email as the primary, and add the user’s regular email as the secondary. You would be shifting the burden of managing this onto the Discourse admin because currently it can only be done through the rails console. > [@Additional email address per user account support](https://meta.discourse.org/t/additional-email-address-per-user-account-support/59847): > > After some chat with the [@team](https://meta.discourse.org/groups/team), we’re moving forward with this [feature request](https://meta.discourse.org/t/two-emails-for-one-user/16328) cautiously together, and in phases. Phase 1 Phase 1 won’t change anything but the architecture of how a user’s email address(es) are stored. No new features, just some well executed database migrations: Create a new user\_email table, with: email column, unique with special handling to support case insensitivity (treating bob@ and BOB@ as the same) user\_id column timestamps Migrate the email column from the use… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-by-email-additional-addresses/125891)._