Tip: when testing inbound email with fake user accounts...

…remember to send with the alias for the fake account’s email address.

I just spent an embarrassing amount of time troubleshooting inbound email because Discourse was rejecting every reply-by-email from my fake users. It had worked fine when I first tested several weeks ago…

I finally realized that in Gmail I’d been forgetting to switch my “From” address to the alias for the fake Discourse account: my.name+DiscourseTest@gmail.com

slaps forehead

I got a little sidetracked because the error shown in the Rejected list is Email::Receiver::BadDestinationAddress

(Something like ::UnknownSender would have clued me in faster.)

Posting in case it could help someone someday.

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