# Activity summary e-mail on demand

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/activity-summary-e-mail-on-demand/208034>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** activity-summary\
**Created:** [November 2, 2021, 6:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/activity-summary-e-mail-on-demand/208034 "2021-11-02T18:24:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Thomas\_Rother](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/thomas_rother/32/423597_2.png) [@Thomas\_Rother](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Thomas_Rother)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2021, 6:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/activity-summary-e-mail-on-demand/208034/1 "2021-11-02T18:24:12Z")

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I am looking for some way how to create the activity summary e-mails _on demand_, not automatically and not based on the individual activity of the visiting (or not-visiting) user.

Background: we have a discourse instance with about 1,1k active users and about 1,5k posts per week. But there are a number of users “outside Discourse” who still prefer classic mailing lists (based on GNU mailman), for various reasons.

The goal is to use the nicely formatted and information-rich activity e-mails as an “appetizer mail” to gain more interest for the Discourse-based discussions. Especially among those users who still prefer “old school” classic mailing lists (because they don’t know yet that Disocurse is much more powerful ;-=)) ).

Possible requirements:

- activity e-mail should be creatable “on demand”
- format should be either static html or as a pdf file
- administrators or moderators should be able to create these activity mails and forward them to users “outside” of the group of regular Discouse users (e.g. by posting it to a classic mailing list).
- the content of the activity summary e-mail should be variable, based on either categories or topics
- it should be limited to a particular time window (e.g. only include activity which appeared last week)

Questions:  
a) is something like this already possible, eg. with some specialized API requests?  
b) If not, what needs to be done to get this implemented?

Thanks for some info/feedback  
Thommie

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