# Confusing wording for email notification settings **URL:** \ **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")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 11
**Author:** ![Simon\_Manning](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/simon_manning/32/198596_2.png) [@Simon\_Manning](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Simon_Manning)\ **Post date:** [20 באוגוסט,‏ 2021,‏ 2:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/confusing-wording-for-email-notification-settings/116393/11 "2021-08-20T14:47:33Z")
> [@JonathanShaw](#): > > This confused me for a bit. The fact that watching is missing altogether from the email preferences text made me wonder if emails got sent at all for watching notifications. I was similarly confused by this with a Discourse instance I’ve set up to replace some mailing lists. I didn’t want to make the default behaviour be mailing list ish so I needed to provide instructions for users that want to keep a mailing list like experience. (Watching desired categories, rather than receiving everything) The related preference above is titled with this: > Send me an email when someone messages me So I have customised the text on our instance to change this: > Send me an email when someone quotes me, replies to my post, mentions my @username, or invites me to a topic into this: > Send me an email when I receive any other notification I’m not entirely convinced it’s the right wording but I do think it works well with related texts, such as when choosing to watch a category: > You will automatically watch all topics in this category. You will be notified of every new post in every topic, and a count of new replies will be shown. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/confusing-wording-for-email-notification-settings/116393)._