# Start Topic via E-Mail with different domain
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/start-topic-via-e-mail-with-different-domain/143105
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 2, 2020, 5:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/start-topic-via-e-mail-with-different-domain/143105 "2020-03-02T17:16:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Stefan\_Fairphone](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stefan_Fairphone)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2020, 5:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/start-topic-via-e-mail-with-different-domain/143105/1 "2020-03-02T17:16:39Z")
Continuing the discussion from [Start a New Topic via Email 📧](https://meta.discourse.org/t/start-a-new-topic-via-email-e-mail/62977):
Is it possible to have e-mails to a different domain be delivered to a specific group?
E.g. the Discourse instance is hosted on [forum.fairphone.com](http://forum.fairphone.com), but the e-mail addresses end in `@fairphone.community`.
So, send e-mail to address → Create DM in group:
- `foo @ fairphone.community` → DM in group Foo at [forum.fairphone.com](http://forum.fairphone.com)
- `bar @ fairphone.community` → DM in group Bar at [forum.fairphone.com](http://forum.fairphone.com)
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### Author:  [@Overgrow](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Overgrow)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2020, 5:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/start-topic-via-e-mail-with-different-domain/143105/2 "2020-03-02T17:22:40Z")
Correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t think that you can do this with Discourse out of the box. It can only poll single collecting mail box.
Easier would be to use some kind of email forwarder (hosting usually supports that) from email box on external domain (`foo @ fairphone.community`) to the proper Discourse collecting mailbox for that category / group (`reply+category1foo @ forum.fairphone.com`). That is definitely doable.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2020, 5:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/start-topic-via-e-mail-with-different-domain/143105/3 "2020-03-02T17:26:44Z")
Yes. Just see that all of those messages get to Discourse and configure the groups accordingly.
> [@Overgrow](#):
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> Correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t think that you can do this with Discourse out of the box. It can only poll single collecting mail box.
That’s true, so you’d need to forward `[foo|bar]*fairphone.community` to whatever mailbox discourse is getting.
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### Author:  [@Stefan\_Fairphone](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stefan_Fairphone)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2020, 8:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/start-topic-via-e-mail-with-different-domain/143105/4 "2020-03-03T20:25:55Z")
Ok, thanks for your ideas! I’ll forward this to our admins and come back if we bump into issues. 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2024, 8:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/start-topic-via-e-mail-with-different-domain/143105/5 "2024-02-16T08:22:13Z")
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2024, 3:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/start-topic-via-e-mail-with-different-domain/143105/6 "2024-02-20T15:47:06Z")