When you subscribe to receive updates to a forum topic instantly, you can reply to individual posts directly from your email by clicking on the "Reply by Email" button. Doing so will bring up a new email. Type your response in the email body and click send. Your reply will be added to the topic discussion just as if you'd replied on site. This feature isn't currently available for daily or weekly digests.
However, in the cases listed below a "Reply By Email" post will be filtered out and not posted to the forums.
- If you reply within 15 seconds of it hitting your inbox (auto-replies are filtered out).
- If you reply from a different address or with a different subject line than the Forum post notification (i.e. no email forwarding - then replying).
- If you reply more than once. After you've replied (or even attempted to reply) all other replies will be filtered out.