# What to do when a TL0 mail gets moved to another category?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-to-do-when-a-tl0-mail-gets-moved-to-another-category/40833>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [March 10, 2016, 12:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-to-do-when-a-tl0-mail-gets-moved-to-another-category/40833 "2016-03-10T00:42:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sander78](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sander78/32/296615_2.png) [@Sander78](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sander78)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 12:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-to-do-when-a-tl0-mail-gets-moved-to-another-category/40833/1 "2016-03-10T00:42:13Z")

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- Someone (not a user) sends a mail to a category address.
- A moderator moves that message to another category.
- He then replies.
- The original sender receives a mail
- The original sender replies
- _The original sender gets a notification with an error about the topic being locked or removed_

What if you need to move an incoming mail to another category/department?

**Solution: always accept `discourse+{key}@domain.ext` mails if the original topic exists and is not locked. Even when it is moved to another category. That way the conversation can continue.**

Things to consider:

- Should the new category be set to accept anonymous mails?
- Does it matter if the new category has an incoming mail address or not?
- If it has an incoming mail address, the new category will have a different address of course, will that be a problem?

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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 12:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-to-do-when-a-tl0-mail-gets-moved-to-another-category/40833/2 "2016-03-10T00:43:27Z")

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Does this user have permission to reply in that category? Are you sure?

@zogstrip have we tested a simple topic rename / recategorize? I can’t think of any reason an email reply would be broken due to recategorize or rename between the time you read the topic and the time you reply to it via email.

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**Author:** ![Sander78](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sander78/32/296615_2.png) [@Sander78](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sander78)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 12:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-to-do-when-a-tl0-mail-gets-moved-to-another-category/40833/3 "2016-03-10T00:44:07Z")

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Yes, that new category was set to accept anonymous mails. New user is TL0.

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**Author:** ![downey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/downey/32/166878_2.png) [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 1:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-to-do-when-a-tl0-mail-gets-moved-to-another-category/40833/4 "2016-03-10T13:54:47Z")

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> [@Sander78](#):
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> Yes, that new category was set to accept anonymous mails. New user is TL0.

Does that new category **also** have correct permissions for TL0 to post via the web?

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**Author:** ![Sander78](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sander78/32/296615_2.png) [@Sander78](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sander78)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 2:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-to-do-when-a-tl0-mail-gets-moved-to-another-category/40833/5 "2016-03-10T14:11:37Z")

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The only way to do that is to set the setting I mentioned in that quote.

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**Author:** ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 9:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-to-do-when-a-tl0-mail-gets-moved-to-another-category/40833/6 "2016-03-14T21:30:03Z")

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Just pushed a fix that ensure replies via email to a topic initiated by an email always go through (_even if moved to a restricted category_)

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/e09e80702798b2fea15cefb23aa6502a3c4bee6f](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/e09e80702798b2fea15cefb23aa6502a3c4bee6f)
