# Some questions regarding to pop polling, wildcards and MX

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-questions-regarding-to-pop-polling-wildcards-and-mx/33468
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** hosting
**Created:** [September 19, 2015, 12:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-questions-regarding-to-pop-polling-wildcards-and-mx/33468 "2015-09-19T12:30:36Z")
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### Author: ![riking](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/riking/32/170938_2.png) [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2015, 7:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-questions-regarding-to-pop-polling-wildcards-and-mx/33468/4 "2015-09-19T19:27:04Z")

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> [@Set up reply by email with POP3 polling](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-up-reply-via-email-support/14003):
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> 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…

An [outlook.com](http://outlook.com) or Yahoo! account will work just as well. Basically you can use any email provider with plus addressing.

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