# Does 30-minute digest rate setting divide precisely into a per-second rate?

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**Tags:** email\
**Created:** [November 20, 2025, 8:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-30-minute-digest-rate-setting-divide-precisely-into-a-per-second-rate/389284 "2025-11-20T20:35:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 4, 2025, 7:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-30-minute-digest-rate-setting-divide-precisely-into-a-per-second-rate/389284/5 "2025-12-04T07:56:00Z")

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> [@ToddZ](#):
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> if I should assume that the value for that is distributed exactly into an X-per-second rate.

The answer is no.

The job that enqueues digests runs every 30 minutes, and all this setting does is put a [maximum number](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/74cc0fbc5596932990874a724e1a1afe00a8d10d/app/jobs/scheduled/enqueue_digest_emails.rb#L50C41-L50C82) of `max_digests_enqueued_per_30_mins_per_site` in the queue. It does not control how quickly the queue is processed.

BTW Seeing some pretty bad reviews for emailit recently, both on trustpilot and appsumo.

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