# Default email digest frequency
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-email-digest-frequency/190428
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** activity-summary
**Created:** [May 14, 2021, 5:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-email-digest-frequency/190428 "2021-05-14T17:06:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@agf1997](https://meta.discourse.org/u/agf1997)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2021, 5:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-email-digest-frequency/190428/1 "2021-05-14T17:06:19Z")
Would it be possible to get something between “Weekly” and “Daily” in “Default email digest frequency” setting?
Perhaps “Every other day”
Even better would be a list of days which could selected … e.g.
x Monday
x Tuesday
x Wednesday
x Thursday
Friday
Saturday
x Sunday
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### Author:  [@nathank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nathank)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2021, 7:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-email-digest-frequency/190428/2 "2021-05-14T19:28:59Z")
I’d love “every 3 days” to make a comeback because it seems to be the sweet spot for our private forums.
(was changed here: [Bigger intervals/ lower frequency for activity summary?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bigger-intervals-lower-frequency-for-activity-summary/112326)):
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We want this so much that we over-ride the setting and have an ugly “4320” minutes showing on people’s email settings.
Also, it would be nice to be able to turn off the automatic suppression of the summary email that happens when users receive any email from the instance, as per:
> [@Disabling summary frequency](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-summary-frequency/166711):
>
> Is it possible to disable the ‘only if users don’t visit’ option for email digest (referencing [Configuring Activity Summary emails](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-activity-summary-emails-guide/36627))? Ultimately - we hope to send email digests every time interval (eg. one week) to everyone, regardless of whether they have visited or not. If this is possible, any help is appreciated!
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### Author:  [@agf1997](https://meta.discourse.org/u/agf1997)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2021, 7:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-email-digest-frequency/190428/3 "2021-05-14T19:52:29Z")
> [@nathank](#):
>
> So much so that we over-ride the setting and have an ugly “4320”
That’s interesting … how do you override the minutes? Is there a setting I’m missing?
I have the options :
- never
- every 30 mins
- every hour
- daily
- weekly
- every month
- every six months
You’ve gotta have some crazy traffic for every 30 mins to be useful … lol
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### Author:  [@nathank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nathank)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2021, 9:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-email-digest-frequency/190428/4 "2021-05-14T21:13:28Z")
> [@agf1997](#):
>
> how do you override the minutes? Is there a setting I’m missing?
You have to force a change via the Rails console. My fellow admin @pacharanero did this, and he might be able to drop the code required in here as I can’t find it documented anywhere.
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### Author:  [@pacharanero](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pacharanero)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2021, 11:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-email-digest-frequency/190428/6 "2021-05-16T11:25:45Z")
> [@nathank](#):
>
> You have to force a change via the Rails console. My fellow admin @pacharanero did this, and he might be able to drop the code required in here as I can’t find it documented anywhere
I’m not sure it really worked, actually. I changed it (back in 2015, according to our Admin log) on the Rails console using
```ruby
SiteSetting.default_email_digest_frequency=
```
Back then, there was no validation of that input. But it seems there is now, and the input of anything that is not in the enum results in
```ruby
Discourse::InvalidParameters: value
from /var/www/discourse/lib/site_settings/type_supervisor.rb:207:in `validate_value'
```
That’s probably a good thing in terms of Discourse code quality and stability. But I do get the OP’s point about wanting better options here. The 30 and 60 minutes options seem odd.
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### Author:  [@Robin.Grant](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Robin.Grant)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2024, 11:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-email-digest-frequency/190428/7 "2024-03-21T23:20:05Z")
I’m in agreement here! - is there any chance of adding a "every 3 days” option for activity summary emails? Daily is too frequent and Weekly is leaving it too long…
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2024, 6:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-email-digest-frequency/190428/8 "2024-03-22T06:11:33Z")
Closed in favour of [Set "default email digest frequency" to 3-4 days](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-default-email-digest-frequency-to-3-4-days/186806)