# Understanding email in functionality

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/understanding-email-in-functionality/74097>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Tags:** email\
**Created:** [November 15, 2017, 11:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understanding-email-in-functionality/74097 "2017-11-15T11:27:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![BrianGillespie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/briangillespie/32/105563_2.png) [@BrianGillespie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BrianGillespie)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 11:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understanding-email-in-functionality/74097/16 "2017-12-01T23:02:22Z")

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> [@supermathie](#):
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> That’s too bad - we use exactly this workflow here on meta.

Thinking with a little bit clearer head, rather than doing our send via Amazon SES (how we do most of our mail delivery), if I just send to [mx-sjc1.discoursemail.com](http://mx-sjc1.discoursemail.com) directly, I can set the mail headers the way you want them set.

… and it even works!

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