# Default email settings for a new user

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-email-settings-for-a-new-user/14980
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** email
**Created:** [April 22, 2014, 7:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-email-settings-for-a-new-user/14980 "2014-04-22T19:18:19Z")
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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2014, 11:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-email-settings-for-a-new-user/14980/13 "2014-10-06T23:41:55Z")

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The general request, which I have heard many times is, this:

> We need a way to site-wide override _any_ user preference

We need to figure out a way to make this happen.

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