# Discourse\_api: site\_setting\_update disable\_emails
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-api-site-setting-update-disable-emails/145695
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 26, 2020, 4:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-api-site-setting-update-disable-emails/145695 "2020-03-26T16:01:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@hellekin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hellekin)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2020, 4:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-api-site-setting-update-disable-emails/145695/1 "2020-03-26T16:01:58Z")
The [Discourse API Docs](https://docs.discourse.org/#tag/Site-Settings-Email/paths/~1admin~1site_settings~1disable_emails/put) for `disable_emails` site setting tells to pass the following payload:
```json
{
"disable_emails": false
}
```
But trying the following `curl` command I receive an error. Can someone tell me what I’m doing wrong?
```shell
curl -X PUT -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Api-Key: $DISCOURSE_API_KEY" -H "Api-Username: $USER" \
--data '{ "disable_emails": false }' \
$DISCOURSE_URI/admin/site_settings/disable_emails
{"errors":["value"]}
```
This `{"errors":["value"]}` is very disturbing. I tried `"false"` and `0` instead, with the same result.
I went to using `curl` because using the `discourse_api` would not work with:
```ruby
client.site_setting_update(name: 'disable_emails', value: false)
```
Again, if someone does what’s wrong with my call, please enlighten me!
(Nothing appears in the error log)
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2020, 4:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-api-site-setting-update-disable-emails/145695/2 "2020-03-26T16:31:43Z")
Oh I think that setting was moved to a enum. Options are:
- no
- yes
- non-staff
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### Author:  [@hellekin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hellekin)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2020, 5:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-api-site-setting-update-disable-emails/145695/3 "2020-03-26T17:06:07Z")
Thanks @Falco it works! The doc is broken then. I cloned the repo, will fix it later.
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### Author:  [@hellekin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hellekin)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2020, 7:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-api-site-setting-update-disable-emails/145695/4 "2020-03-26T19:24:21Z")
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse\_api\_docs/pull/22](https://github.com/discourse/discourse_api_docs/pull/22)
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2020, 7:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-api-site-setting-update-disable-emails/145695/5 "2020-04-25T19:24:24Z")
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