Hello Discourse! I am setting up a number of new users on my Discourse forum. Iw ant to set up new users to receive email notifications by default when they register for a new account. Our specific use case is to have this be a private team discussion location and notifications are key for us. Aft…

Hello! There are definitely topics about this out there, but I’m not sure if there is one that concisely answers your specific question. The site setting you’re looking for is default categories watching first post. Adding categories to that setting will cause all users who sign up after you modif…

[image] jomaxro: The site setting you’re looking for is default categories watching first post . Adding categories to that setting will cause all users who sign up after you modify the setting to receive notifications (and thus emails) for new topics in each category you add to that setting. If …

@jomaxro , actually one quick follow up, what is the difference between the above settings and the default email mailing list mode setting?

default categories watching first post only sends emails for new topics, not replies. It is also selective, you can choose which categories you want emails to be sent for. default email mailing list mode is the firehose. It’s similar to default categories watching, except non-selective. Emails will…

Got it. Definitely not what I want in this case. Thank you!

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jomaxro (Joshua Rosenfeld) Décembre 18, 2018, 4:31 4

Category view permissions are respected, yes. For more details, see User watching categories despite not having access.

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