# Add option to receive own posts by email

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-option-to-receive-own-posts-by-email/374656>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** email\
**Created:** [July 17, 2025, 3:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-option-to-receive-own-posts-by-email/374656 "2025-07-17T15:35:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![mnalis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a87d85/32.png) [@mnalis](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mnalis)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 11:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-option-to-receive-own-posts-by-email/374656/3 "2025-07-17T23:55:29Z")

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> [@Moin](#):
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> I think this is already possible when you enable `mailing list mode`.

Yes, but enabling `mailing list mode` (if I understand correctly that warning also seen in your screenshot) **completely shuts down** almost all Discourse functionality (which threads you find interesting, watched tags, 1st post watching etc).

In other words, it is mostly only useful if one never uses web interface (!!), and prefers to use Discourse as headless mailing lists of the past sending _ **all messages in all threads** _ to you.

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Which is not my use case; I would like to keep using Discourse as web forum, watching **only some** threads (and receiving email only for them), but also have e-mails that I already receive of watched conversations **_also_ include _my_ posts** (so the saved e-mail threads are actually readable).

As I’m only interested in like 1% of the threads that I watch; I definitely do not want to receive 99% of the other uninteresting threads just so I would receive 0.1% of my own posts too (which enabling `mailing list mode` would do, if I understand correctly?)

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