# Tagging a topic from email in

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/tagging-a-topic-from-email-in/57275
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [February 12, 2017, 4:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tagging-a-topic-from-email-in/57275 "2017-02-12T16:03:26Z")
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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2017, 5:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tagging-a-topic-from-email-in/57275/6 "2017-02-12T17:58:35Z")

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This is an exact duplicate of

> [@Add tags by email](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-tags-by-email/25796):
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> I’ve had a request for the ability to add tags to topics when posting by email. This could work by adding a line as follows starting with tags: and then a comma separated list. tags: tag1, tag2, tag3 I can see potential for difficulty, e.g. because there is no autocomplete people won’t know tags that are already being used and create duplicates, but I also think it can be quite powerful and help people to indicate organization they’d like without having to log in - and in my community many pe…

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