# 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:** ![osioke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/osioke/32/238946_2.png) [@osioke](https://meta.discourse.org/u/osioke)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2021, 10:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/activity-summary-e-mail-on-demand/208034/4 "2021-11-03T10:41:53Z")

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I totally understand you, while it seems like what you are describing is different from an email marketing platform, it would mean extending the email system in Discourse to allow granular customisation and being able to select users based on activity within the community. This will be tricky because emails sent from Discourse are transactional and more notification-based.

What you have described does sound useful and I can definitely see the need, additional email functionality isn’t an uncommon request. Most of these are doable with 3rd party systems, so it’s likely that any email improvements will rely on integrating with third-party services (something we’ve started to look into more recently).

Some integration with third-party emailing services can already be achieved through webhooks, but those can be hard to approach if you’re not technical… and even then you’re a bit limited.

What future improvement will probably look like is a more direct integration with email marketing platforms like mailchimp, convertkit, constantcontact, etc… So it’s possible you may be able to configure some simple no-code automation like:

`if` [user hasn’t logged in within X days] `then` [subscribe user to X mailchimp list], where the list has customised email templates that pull specific data from topics in the community into a nicely designed view as you’ve described.

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