# What email address do you use for your discourse site?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-email-address-do-you-use-for-your-discourse-site/23012
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [2014年十二月9日 18:51 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-email-address-do-you-use-for-your-discourse-site/23012 "2014-12-09T18:51:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [2014年十二月9日 18:51 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-email-address-do-you-use-for-your-discourse-site/23012/1 "2014-12-09T18:51:35Z")
I am debating which email address to use for my discourse site and would like to understand a bit better how this is intended to be used and what others are doing.
The domain of my discourse is eg `http://community.foo.org` and so it seems sensible to use `comunity@foo.org` as the email to send all discourse email from. But that email address does not exist already - should it be set up as an alias of another commonly used role mailbox like `info@foo.org` or `foo@foo.org`?
I have set up google apps with `discourse@foo.org` as the mailbox that all mailing lists and forum replies are sent to, which is working correctly. Should this instead be e.g. `community@foo.org` and be the same address configured for notification emails?
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [2018年八月24日 12:30 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-email-address-do-you-use-for-your-discourse-site/23012/2 "2018-08-24T12:30:53Z")
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [2018年八月24日 13:22 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-email-address-do-you-use-for-your-discourse-site/23012/3 "2018-08-24T13:22:01Z")
It’s been 4 years, @tobiaseigen, do you have any feedbacks?
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [2018年八月24日 21:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-email-address-do-you-use-for-your-discourse-site/23012/4 "2018-08-24T21:27:10Z")
I set up my site’s email addresses pretty much as described above and it seems fine. There is an account at `community@foo.org` which is used to receive all sorts of helpdesk type correspondence, also from mailchimp mailings and the like. I like to handle it all manually.
The one innovation recently has been to stop replying to any messages I receive there directly by email.. I now reply to all messages via discourse PM, creating staged users when the user does not exist already in discourse. I include a helpdesk group to make sure appropriate staff have access and can help with follow-up, and use [ticket tags](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-as-ticket-system-so-no-balls-are-dropped-woman-juggling/82698).