# Replying too quickly ... By email?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/replying-too-quickly-by-email/41562
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [March 25, 2016, 2:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replying-too-quickly-by-email/41562 "2016-03-25T14:21:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2016, 2:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replying-too-quickly-by-email/41562/1 "2016-03-25T14:21:46Z")
Something about this scenario doesn’t seem right. First of all, I don’t know how I could possibly reply too fast by email, but so it doesn’t even seem like a reasonable thing to block given the latency of email. And how could I reply in any faster than 5 seconds?
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### Author:  [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2016, 2:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replying-too-quickly-by-email/41562/2 "2016-03-25T14:24:24Z")
I’m guessing the issue is because:
- emails are collected by polling
- several emails are collected via POP3 at the same time
- you sent several emails that when processed in a queue registered as posting too quickly.
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### Author:  [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2016, 2:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replying-too-quickly-by-email/41562/3 "2016-03-25T14:42:55Z")
Yeah, that seems the likely culprit. But that polling queue shouldn’t be the fault of the user, no? Should email processing be exempted from the rate limit? (Or at least set much higher?)
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### Author:  [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2016, 3:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replying-too-quickly-by-email/41562/4 "2016-03-25T15:21:48Z")
It should probably use the times on the emails themselves to check the frequency of replies.
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### Author:  [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2016, 3:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replying-too-quickly-by-email/41562/5 "2016-03-25T15:32:28Z")
Yeah, that sounds sane.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2016, 9:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replying-too-quickly-by-email/41562/7 "2016-03-31T09:18:23Z")
That is super duper hard to do, not feasible at all the way rate limits are implemented.
I think the simplest thing to do here @zogstrip is to queue the post for processing in N (30) seconds if you hit a rate limit, then if it tries N times (3) then fail out.
That way its pretty easy to implement and will not involve a lot of complicated bypasses to rate limits.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2016, 9:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replying-too-quickly-by-email/41562/8 "2016-05-28T09:39:32Z")
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2016, 7:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replying-too-quickly-by-email/41562/9 "2016-05-30T07:49:30Z")
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2016, 1:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replying-too-quickly-by-email/41562/10 "2016-07-01T01:31:47Z")
Note, we still want to fix this, it is not easy.
Our hosted customers no longer have this problem since emails are processed immediately and not in 5 minute batches.
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### Author:  [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2016, 1:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replying-too-quickly-by-email/41562/11 "2016-07-01T13:31:09Z")
> [@sam](#):
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> emails are processed immediately
Is this something that we mere mortals can configure? 🙂
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2016, 7:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replying-too-quickly-by-email/41562/12 "2016-07-04T07:37:43Z")
Unfortunately no, since we’re running our own email server in order to get around this, so it’s really a matter of infrastructure, not basic configuration.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2016, 4:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replying-too-quickly-by-email/41562/13 "2016-07-13T04:05:23Z")
@zogstrip I would love to see this fixed for 1.6, it’s quite harsh when it happens.
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2016, 8:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replying-too-quickly-by-email/41562/14 "2016-08-08T20:30:06Z")
Ok, let’s try this 🌰
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/51322a46b3fabab11cfa8f29ac4f386d8227aedf](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/51322a46b3fabab11cfa8f29ac4f386d8227aedf)
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2016, 10:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replying-too-quickly-by-email/41562/15 "2016-08-11T22:47:49Z")
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