# Digest email to be sent on schedule only

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/digest-email-to-be-sent-on-schedule-only/75663
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** activity-summary
**Created:** [12월 8, 2017, 4:02오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digest-email-to-be-sent-on-schedule-only/75663 "2017-12-08T04:02:59Z")
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### Author: ![meglio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/meglio/32/71444_2.png) [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)
#### Post date: [12월 8, 2017, 4:02오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digest-email-to-be-sent-on-schedule-only/75663/1 "2017-12-08T04:02:59Z")

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For slower VPS servers and bigger number of community members, sending digest emails may clutter sidekiq jobs queue.

Combined with a possibly slow SMTP server and hight user activity at peak hours, this may lead to sidekiq get stuck, which will affect user “notifications” experience.

I’d like to propose a setting to control during which hours sending queued digest emails can be executed.

For many communities residing in a single country (e.g. Australia) or a single region (e.g. Europe), there will always be some period of time when user activity goes down considerably, e.g. 2am to 4:30am. This will be good time for non-important jobs like sending digest emails.

P.S. I realise hardware is much cheaper than software, so “buy better hardware instead of asking us to program this feature” will be a reasonable answer. Still, no harm in asking 🙂