# Email configuration Help
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-configuration-help/412532
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** email, site-settings
**Created:** [September 16, 2026, 4:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-configuration-help/412532 "2026-09-16T04:02:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Heliosurge](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Heliosurge)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2026, 4:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-configuration-help/412532/1 "2026-09-16T04:02:25Z")
I have read over emUl settings and & am not sure if this can be setup this way
I would like to disable email for everything except
- Activation and password resets.
- Allow system emails, allow email notification for PM and Chats
My idea is to reduce outbound emails to. Minimum. No digest emails or emails for replies & mentions in posts.
Also need to allow moderator & category moderator related emails.
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### Author:  [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2026, 4:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-configuration-help/412532/2 "2026-09-16T04:40:28Z")
Turning off digests is possible, there is a disable email summary setting.
As for the rest, those are user preferences, You can select defaults but I am not sure if this will prevent users from changing that to something else.
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### Author:  [@Heliosurge](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Heliosurge)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2026, 5:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-configuration-help/412532/3 "2026-09-16T05:10:52Z")
I would imagine while not fool proof the email settings in preferences could be hidden with CSS in. TC
What I would need to know though is would category Moderators still receive system emails regarding flags?
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### Author:  [@Ethsim2](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ethsim2)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2026, 6:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-configuration-help/412532/4 "2026-09-16T06:58:51Z")
> [@Heliosurge](#):
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> settings in preferences could be hidden with CSS in. TC
Would your theme component hide the relevant controls from the email preferences template here?
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It looks like the controls have `data-setting-name` attributes which could be targeted directly with CSS.
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### Author:  [@Ethsim2](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ethsim2)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2026, 7:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-configuration-help/412532/5 "2026-09-16T07:12:27Z")
> [@Heliosurge](#):
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> What I would need to know though is would category Moderators still receive system emails regarding flags?
As far as I can tell from current core, category moderators receive the on-site review notification for flags in categories they moderate, but they don’t receive the delayed system PM/email reminder simply by being category moderators.
The `PendingReviewablesReminder` job sends that reminder to the moderators group, and the users it explicitly mentions are selected with `User.where(moderator: true)`, i.e. full moderators. \[1\]
So a category moderator who is also a full moderator would receive it, but category-moderator status on its own doesn’t appear to make them a recipient.
Also, hiding the normal email-preference controls with a theme component wouldn’t change this, since the moderation reminder targeting is handled separately on the server side.
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### Author:  [@Heliosurge](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Heliosurge)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2026, 9:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-configuration-help/412532/6 "2026-09-16T21:10:28Z")
That would be the hope. To simply turn those elements to display none. So only essential email controls are exposed.
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### Author:  [@Heliosurge](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Heliosurge)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2026, 9:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-configuration-help/412532/7 "2026-09-16T21:15:20Z")
Okay well maybe not so important for non full staff to receive those email notifications then as many in that category would already likely be fairly regular.
As most ppl these days are quite active in sites. I am aiming to reduce email output to a minimum.
Still need to look into it more but thinking RSS Readers could be a good fit instead of email as content would not require time sensitive quick responses for the most part