# Disabling outgoing email notifications

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-outgoing-email-notifications/38646>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** email\
**Created:** [January 28, 2016, 10:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-outgoing-email-notifications/38646 "2016-01-28T22:02:39Z")\
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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:** [January 29, 2016, 4:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disabling-outgoing-email-notifications/38646/2 "2016-01-29T04:22:04Z")

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Sort of, you can change the user preference default for email to all off. Then all new (but not existing…) users will have email notifications disabled. However this does not stop users from turning those settings back on.

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