# Whitelist for Auto Generated Emails
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/whitelist-for-auto-generated-emails/117565
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 13, 2019, 8:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whitelist-for-auto-generated-emails/117565 "2019-05-13T08:13:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@YoavNordmann](https://meta.discourse.org/u/YoavNordmann)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2019, 8:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whitelist-for-auto-generated-emails/117565/1 "2019-05-13T08:13:31Z")
Hi
people in my organization keep complaining about receiving the “We’re sorry, but your email message to … didn’t work.”
The context is as follows: They are sending the mail to an address called “all”. This the send the mail to all mail addresses in the organization, discourse being one of them…
In the meanwhile I have added the mail “all” to the “auto generated whitelist” in the email settings but to no avail.
How can I prevent the reply message “We’re sorry, but your email message to … didn’t work.” being sent to people as they are getting frustrated b it.
Thanks
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2019, 8:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whitelist-for-auto-generated-emails/117565/2 "2019-05-13T08:29:11Z")
I am not following why random emails are being sent _to_ Discourse?
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### Author:  [@YoavNordmann](https://meta.discourse.org/u/YoavNordmann)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2019, 8:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whitelist-for-auto-generated-emails/117565/3 "2019-05-13T08:38:31Z")
So basically what you are saying that this should/must be dealt with in the mailing list and not in discourse.
I understand.
Still, I would expect the mail addresses in the “auto generated whitelist” to be ignored of any “Auto Generated” checks.
Any thoughts on that issue ?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2019, 8:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whitelist-for-auto-generated-emails/117565/4 "2019-05-13T08:45:14Z")
Not exactly, I’m just not fully understanding the setup?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2019, 1:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whitelist-for-auto-generated-emails/117565/5 "2019-05-13T13:01:59Z")
Do you want those messages to be posted to discourse?
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### Author:  [@YoavNordmann](https://meta.discourse.org/u/YoavNordmann)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2019, 1:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whitelist-for-auto-generated-emails/117565/6 "2019-05-13T13:22:45Z")
Nope. For posting to discourse one would need to use a special mail address.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2022, 10:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whitelist-for-auto-generated-emails/117565/7 "2022-09-16T10:57:52Z")
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2022, 11:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whitelist-for-auto-generated-emails/117565/8 "2022-09-16T11:37:21Z")