# 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")\
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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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