# Default email digest frequency?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-email-digest-frequency/66547>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** activity-summary\
**Created:** [July 20, 2017, 8:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-email-digest-frequency/66547 "2017-07-20T20:30:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mittineague](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mittineague/32/114259_2.png) [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 12:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-email-digest-frequency/66547/10 "2017-07-21T00:26:12Z")

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I wouldn’t know how to code it, but I think there’s a good chance you could use a plugin so changes would survive updates.

It is easy enough to override the site setting

> <https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/config/site_settings.yml#L1315-L1318>

The trick would be getting the custom value to be considered valid

> <https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/app/models/digest_email_site_setting.rb>

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