# Confusing wording for email notification settings

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/confusing-wording-for-email-notification-settings/116393>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [30 באפריל,‏ 2019,‏ 4:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/confusing-wording-for-email-notification-settings/116393 "2019-04-30T04:08:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![RGJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rgj/32/523185_2.png) [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)\
**Post date:** [30 באפריל,‏ 2019,‏ 4:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/confusing-wording-for-email-notification-settings/116393/1 "2019-04-30T04:08:03Z")

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In the " [Add more granular user option levels for email notifications](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/7143)" feature that was added in 2.3.0 beta 6, the “Send me email notifications even when I am active on the site” setting was removed in favor of separate “always / only when away / never settings” for messages and for other notifications. (`email_messages_level` and `email_level`).

This is a great improvement. However, the accompanying text “Send me an email when someone quotes me, replies to my post, mentions my @username, or invites me to a topic” does not cover all emails, especially those that are sent by the watched/tracked settings in Preferences - Notifications - Categories, while these _are_ being covered by that setting.

(Actually it seems like this was always the case, but it got _more_ confusing now since the explicit ‘always send everything’ setting was removed).

Maybe this could be worded in more broad terms (for instance: “topic activity notifications”) so it would cover the category notifications as well ?

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