you can now comment on any issue by email easily

howto/gitlab.md

@@ -126,27 +126,25 @@ description. You can use shortcuts in the body, like `/assign @foo`,
 
 See [the upstream docs for more details](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/issues/managing_issues.html#new-issue-via-url-with-prefilled-fields).
 
-### Replying to an existing comment
+### Commenting on an issue
 
 If you just reply to the particular comment notification you received
 by email, as you would reply to an email in a thread, that comment
 will show up in the issue.
 
-You need to have email notifications enabled for this to work, naturally.
+You need to have email notifications enabled for this to work,
+naturally.
 
-See [the upstream docs for more details](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/reply_by_email.html).
-
-### Creating a new comment
-
-This is not easily doable right now (see: [issue 18816
-upstream](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/18816)). However, if you have notifications enabled, you can
-reply to any notification email of the issue by replacing everything
-that would get quoted with the comment you want to add.
+You can also add a new comment to any issue by copy-pasting the
+issue-specific email address in the right sidebar (labeled "Issue
+email", [introduced in GitLab 13.8](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/18816)).
 
 This also works with shortcuts like `/estimate 1d` or `/spend
 -1h`. Note: for those you won't get notification emails back, though,
 while for others like `/assign @foo` you would.
 
+See [the upstream docs for more details](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/reply_by_email.html).
+
 ### Quick status updates by email
 
 There are a bunch of [quick actions](https://gitlab.torproject.org/help/user/project/quick_actions.md) available which are handy to