# Don't notify me by email when I assign a topic to myself
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/dont-notify-me-by-email-when-i-assign-a-topic-to-myself/120055
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** assign
**Created:** [11 juni 2019 om 17:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dont-notify-me-by-email-when-i-assign-a-topic-to-myself/120055 "2019-06-11T17:00:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [11 juni 2019 om 17:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dont-notify-me-by-email-when-i-assign-a-topic-to-myself/120055/1 "2019-06-11T17:00:00Z")
I have `assign mailer enabled` selected, and I like the feature! It is super handy that staff get an email as well when they are assigned topics by a colleague. However, when a staff member assigns a topic to themselves, I think it is a bit excessive that they are sent an email. After all, they assigned it to themselves so they know already.
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### Author:  [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)
#### Post date: [11 juni 2019 om 20:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dont-notify-me-by-email-when-i-assign-a-topic-to-myself/120055/2 "2019-06-11T20:45:39Z")
> [@tobiaseigen](#):
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> I think it is a bit excessive that they are sent an email.
I tend to agree but I bet you there are people who assign stuff to themselves _because_ it sends them a reminder email…
Also, I think it’s kinda consistent to _always_ send that email.
So, after all, perhaps I don’t tend to agree that much?
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [12 juni 2019 om 14:19 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dont-notify-me-by-email-when-i-assign-a-topic-to-myself/120055/3 "2019-06-12T14:19:54Z")
> [@tophee](#):
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> I tend to agree but I bet you there are people who assign stuff to themselves _because_ it sends them a reminder email…
I hear you. People get used to all sorts of funny workflows, and use their email to maintain a todo list. I do this sometimes myself. Maybe different needs can be accommodated with a personal preference setting or an additional admin setting?
I get complaints on my team all the time about these emails - we are constantly spamming ourselves.
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Update - a graphic visualisation of the impact of this in my email inbox after a few hours of work in the forum today. This is typical.
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [13 juni 2019 om 04:07 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dont-notify-me-by-email-when-i-assign-a-topic-to-myself/120055/4 "2019-06-13T04:07:24Z")
I don’t have an opinion one way or another here, but I can offer a workaround. Create a Gmail filter for mail your Discourse site with the subject `tobiaseigen assigned you to` and have the email automatically deleted. I do exactly that for email I get here on Meta - our ticket system uses PMs which creates lots of emails. Here’s the filter I use, and what my trash looks like (that would be my inbox if I didn’t delete them):
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [18 november 2019 om 15:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dont-notify-me-by-email-when-i-assign-a-topic-to-myself/120055/5 "2019-11-18T15:04:02Z")
Should be easy enough to do… @dan can you add that to your list?
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### Author:  [@dan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dan)
#### Post date: [20 november 2019 om 10:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dont-notify-me-by-email-when-i-assign-a-topic-to-myself/120055/7 "2019-11-20T10:46:22Z")
I submitted a pull request that changes the `assign mailer enabled` settings to an enum with:
- Never
- Only if assigner and assignee are different users
- Always
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse-assign/pull/57](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-assign/pull/57)
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### Author:  [@dan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dan)
#### Post date: [26 november 2019 om 09:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dont-notify-me-by-email-when-i-assign-a-topic-to-myself/120055/8 "2019-11-26T09:46:39Z")