# Reply-by-email TL plugin
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-by-email-tl-plugin/36132
**Category:** Plugin
**Created:** [November 29, 2015, 8:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-by-email-tl-plugin/36132 "2015-11-29T20:05:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@JSey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JSey)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2015, 8:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-by-email-tl-plugin/36132/1 "2015-11-29T20:05:28Z")
Maybe you’ve also had problems with new members (ab-) using the reply-by-email feature. I feel that if you force users to first get a grip of your Discourse instance by using it via web, things run more smoothly. As soon as they reach TL 1 or 2, it’s pretty safe to include the reply-by-email feature (which I personally really like a great deal!).
In order to have a setting like so:
…I wrote this tiny little plugin:
[https://github.com/JSey/reply-by-email-TL](https://github.com/JSey/reply-by-email-TL)
which does the trick. I really see this more of a “ironing out tiny wrinkles in a great product”. But maybe you have the same problem in your community, so here’s a potential solution.
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### Author:  [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2015, 8:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-by-email-tl-plugin/36132/2 "2015-11-29T20:10:22Z")
Out of curiosity.. are emails from TL0 or 1 captured as “Needs approval” or?
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### Author:  [@JSey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JSey)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2015, 8:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-by-email-tl-plugin/36132/3 "2015-11-29T20:12:59Z")
For them, Discourse acts as if reply-by-email was disabled. There is no reply token generated, no reply by email instructions are included in the emails, only the “click here to reply” link.
They don’t really get a chance to reply. 😉
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### Author:  [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2015, 10:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-by-email-tl-plugin/36132/4 "2015-11-29T22:37:00Z")
Very cool. I wasn’t sure if you were also allowing Topic creation via email, and what would happen in that situation.
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### Author:  [@JSey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JSey)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2015, 5:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reply-by-email-tl-plugin/36132/5 "2015-11-30T05:16:35Z")
Oh, topic creation is a different setting for which Discourse already offers a restriction by TL! That was one oft my motivations to write this…
Here are the original Discourse settings for topic creation via email (settings-\>email):
