# A way to force a user to get email notifications
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-way-to-force-a-user-to-get-email-notifications/26140
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [09.Март.2015 18:50:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-way-to-force-a-user-to-get-email-notifications/26140 "2015-03-09T18:50:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@pitosalas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pitosalas)
#### Post date: [09.Март.2015 18:50:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-way-to-force-a-user-to-get-email-notifications/26140/1 "2015-03-09T18:50:03Z")
I am trying to get a new site going and as expected people are not visiting the site enough to see whatever activity may be happening.
In order to help the ignition of discussion I was thinking that it would be good if all my initial users receive email notifications of traffic.
Is there a way that I as admin can force that? Is there a way for me to change the default setting for email notification for new users? Thanks!
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### Author:  [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)
#### Post date: [10.Март.2015 13:13:13 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-way-to-force-a-user-to-get-email-notifications/26140/2 "2015-03-10T13:13:13Z")
This is how I did it, and I’m sure a more elegant way is on the horizon:
Til then:
> [@Setting defaults to enable mailing list mode-Temporary Solution](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-defaults-to-enable-mailing-list-mode-temporary-solution/25645):
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> Continuing the discussion from [Edit a user setting for all Discourse users](https://meta.discourse.org/t/edit-a-user-setting-for-all-discourse-users/25162): So, I did this in my forum - I sent a nice email explaining what’s up, and just did it. Then, I went ahead and set the defaults as I wanted to be checked by default - and have instructions telling people how they can change them if they want (all I did was set defaults, not lock them in place) It’s been great. Discourse is now the mailing list I’ve wanted since day one, with the most functional web-ui out there. He…
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [16.Сентябрь.2018 18:47:43 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-way-to-force-a-user-to-get-email-notifications/26140/3 "2018-09-16T18:47:43Z")
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [16.Сентябрь.2018 22:31:57 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-way-to-force-a-user-to-get-email-notifications/26140/4 "2018-09-16T22:31:57Z")
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [17.Сентябрь.2018 10:09:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-way-to-force-a-user-to-get-email-notifications/26140/5 "2018-09-17T10:09:56Z")
> [@pitosalas](#):
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> In order to help the ignition of discussion I was thinking that it would be good if all my initial users receive email notifications of traffic.
I can’t remember when we made this change, but for a while now we’ve instituted “bootstrap mode” on initial install which forces daily activity digests (versus weekly), and grants all new users trust level 1 immediately, for the first 50 people who join a Discourse site. After the 51st user joins these settings are set back to default for all users.