Reply by email not yet available? Possibility to start discussion by email.

[dev-zero]

While the notifications from the discussions say "Reply to this email directly." it doesn't seem to work (yet), is that correct?
I did reply to such a notification (with Thunderbird and the account it was sent to), but the message did not appear in the thread (or in the discussions in general).

Also, is there some way to start a new discussion (or issue) by mail? We have a couple of collaborators who really prefer to use email rather than having to login, and being able to interact with mail would make discussions much more inclusive for them.

[bczhc]

For the first one, may be related to https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/101939? I also filed one.