# Does reassigning a category send a new email out to the group watching the new category?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-reassigning-a-category-send-a-new-email-out-to-the-group-watching-the-new-category/39249
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [08.Февраль.2016 22:16:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-reassigning-a-category-send-a-new-email-out-to-the-group-watching-the-new-category/39249 "2016-02-08T22:16:59Z")
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### Author: ![david](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/david/32/157490_2.png) [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [10.Август.2017 19:36:17 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-reassigning-a-category-send-a-new-email-out-to-the-group-watching-the-new-category/39249/8 "2017-08-10T19:36:17Z")

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On my dev instance I just tried these steps:

- **User1** sets “Announcements” category to “Watching”
- **User2** performs these actions:
  - **Private message (publish timer)**
    - Create a private message with self, set timer to publish to “Announcements”

  - **Staff only topic (publish timer)**
    - Create a topic in a staff only category, set timer to publish to “Announcements”

  - **Private message (manual publish)**
    - Create a private message with self, click Make Public Topic [(screenshot here)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chatroom-integration-plugin-discourse-chat-integration/66522/29)
    - This creates a public “Uncategorised” topic, so move manually to “Announcements”

  - **Mention in PM**
    - Create a private message with self, mentioning **User1**.
    - Click Make Public Topic

None of these scenarios result in a notification to **User1**. To confirm my test was working, I created a topic directly in “Announcements”, and a notification was indeed sent.

So, I think there are a few things that need fixing:

- Notifications should be sent when topics are re-categorised by a “publish” topic timer
- Notifications should be sent when the “Make public topic” button is clicked in a PM. Complication here is that the topic is immediately moved to the “Uncategorised” category, so we’d need a UI to choose a category before publishing.
- Add a `:notify_about_post` DiscourseEvent for plugins to subscribe to (see [here](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chatroom-integration-plugin-discourse-chat-integration/66522/31))

Then there’s the question of whether notifications should be sent for “manually” moving topics between categories. Personally I don’t really have a opinion either way, but a change to the existing behaviour was mentioned [here](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notifications-when-a-topic-is-recategorized/63079).

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