# Email excerpts rather than full posts

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-excerpts-rather-than-full-posts/103902
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [December 10, 2018, 2:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-excerpts-rather-than-full-posts/103902 "2018-12-10T14:37:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
**Page:** 2

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### Author: ![Dani1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dani1/32/84172_2.png) [@Dani1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Dani1)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2019, 6:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-excerpts-rather-than-full-posts/103902/23 "2019-08-21T18:42:31Z")

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just on the off chance here, cos i haven’t actually gone here myself yet:

i’ve been moving stuff around in my own forum, and to avoid people getting notifications of old stuff i have temporarily disabled ALL outgoing email.  
but when i created a new post just now, i _did_ receive a regular notifying email of that post.  
when i checked other users, i realised it was just me, as admin, no one else had received that outgoing mail.

so maybe the same thing is happening here: that no matter what settings you use for length of excerpt, the owner/admin gets the full mail.

just a thought.

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### Author: ![neil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/neil/32/102150_2.png) [@neil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neil)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2019, 6:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-excerpts-rather-than-full-posts/103902/24 "2019-08-21T18:49:56Z")

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I got an email today to an admin account that showed an excerpt.

 ![2019-08-21_14-45](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/e/d/ed455c0a40593ee6e356c0a2ad6ed1dce668f996.png)

I set excerpt length to 150, and this email has an excerpt 150 chars long.

Now I’m noticing that @tohaitrieu’s screenshot doesn’t look like a normal Discourse email. I don’t know what was done on that site.

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### Author: ![Dani1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dani1/32/84172_2.png) [@Dani1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Dani1)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2019, 6:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-excerpts-rather-than-full-posts/103902/25 "2019-08-21T18:51:56Z")

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> [@neil](#):
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> I got an email today to an admin account that showed an excerpt.

thanks, good to know!

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### Author: ![tohaitrieu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tohaitrieu/32/151338_2.png) [@tohaitrieu](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tohaitrieu)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2019, 7:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-excerpts-rather-than-full-posts/103902/26 "2019-08-21T19:13:48Z")

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@neil today, I reboot my VPS, Run git pull and rebuild app, it’s working right now. Thank you.

Problem is solved!

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2019, 10:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-excerpts-rather-than-full-posts/103902/27 "2019-08-21T22:16:30Z")

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