# Confused about E-Mail templates

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Tags:** email\
**Created:** [February 25, 2020, 4:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/confused-about-e-mail-templates/142599 "2020-02-25T16:27:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 4:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/confused-about-e-mail-templates/142599/1 "2020-02-25T16:27:09Z")

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Tried to identify which E-Mail Template is used when a user puts a new topic into a category.  
I have users watching and watching first post.

Thought I found the correct template only to discover that when I’m putting a new topic in a special category, the users get mails from different templates.

These two users got different E-Mails:  
One is administrator and team, and has the category on watching first post,  
the other is team and has the category on watching.

Now I’m confused. How can I determine which template is used refering to which setting, or is there more to it?

Since my goal is to define a special template for one single category:  
Is there a possibility to configure a fixed template for a special category?

And by the way: Is here somewhere a listing which variables are there and usable in the body? It surprised me that %topic\_title refuses to be in the body.

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