# 邮件列表模式下的电子邮件地址簿陷阱

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-mailing-list-mode-email-address-book-trap/103838>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [2018 年12 月 9 日 15:47 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-mailing-list-mode-email-address-book-trap/103838 "2018-12-09T15:47:13Z")\
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作者： ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)\
发布日期： [2018 年12 月 9 日 16:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-mailing-list-mode-email-address-book-trap/103838/2 "2018-12-09T16:46:41Z")

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> [@Matt\_Campbell](#):
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> because you think this works like an old-school mailing list.

They did work like this? News to me.

One Yahoo mailing list (I replaced with Discourse) would send from `the-group@yahoogroups.co.uk` so if you saved this address and attempted to send a mail to it, it would have done exactly the same thing?

> [@Matt\_Campbell](#):
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> When sending to the address in the From header, the message should either bounce, or go to the sender as a PM. Maybe the forum administrator should be able to choose the behavior.

I believe you can and _should_ already set this up and is determined by the person who manages the domain and the email service account - usually the admin.

On one of my sites I occasionally get even fairly tech savvy users replying to the [noreply@blah.com](mailto:noreply@blah.com) notifications because the email ‘from’ name uses someone’s account name which confuses them.

However, if your admin has set up reply-by-email, that will work as described - it will reply to the topic!

I don’t think this is a bug, isn’t this simply a misunderstanding and misuse of the functionality and risk of enabling this feature?

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