# Best practice for email subject templates

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-practice-for-email-subject-templates/75443>\
**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [Dezembro 5, 2017, 3:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-practice-for-email-subject-templates/75443 "2017-12-05T15:19:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![robmc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/robmc/32/125900_2.png) [@robmc](https://meta.discourse.org/u/robmc)\
**Post date:** [Dezembro 5, 2017, 7:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-practice-for-email-subject-templates/75443/3 "2017-12-05T19:25:30Z")

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Thanks, but I think we are talking about different things

By default, ALL Discourse emails follow a template subject line which is:

**PM** subject line  
`[%{email_prefix}] [PM] %{topic_title}`

**Notification** subject line  
`[%{email_prefix}] [%{category}] %{topic_title}`

**The Digest** subject line  
`[%{email_prefix}] Summary`

In other words, if you do not customise your subject lines, ALL notifications from the community start to look very similar.

I am wondering if anyone has made any significant changes to these template subject lines (including removing the email\_prefix and the `[square bracket dividers]`) or whether we think that keeping these are good practice in order to inform our members?

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