As if my questions verbiage could be any more confusing.
When a ticket is replied to, the From: email address is a default jira@....atlassian.net.
What happens if an end-user uses this email address to create a new request? While testing, the email does not assign itself to any of our projects, nor does it return via mail demon.
I think such emails are basically lost. You'll need to create an email handler to convert such emails into new issues or comments:
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