# Email notification granularity
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notification-granularity/164371
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [September 17, 2020, 3:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notification-granularity/164371 "2020-09-17T15:38:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Darin\_Simmons](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Darin_Simmons)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2020, 3:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notification-granularity/164371/1 "2020-09-17T15:38:09Z")
Thank you for making such a wonderful product.
I did search through the planned and to-do and upcoming.
I am a member of many forums and many groups. As I understand it, the second option (see below pic) includes both specic @username and group membership email notifications. I would love a way to split that up.
Request: Take the second option below extremely literally i.e. remove group membership. Email notifications **only** when tagged directly and not when tagged as part of a group membership. Create another option for group membership, see Follow-on after the jump.
Follow on request: Ability to choose which groups I do receive membership from. For example, moderators, “coaches”, all-stars, or other’s with greater responsibility might want email notifications on that group but come to the site frequently enough that they don’t want email notifications of all the groups. Or, a “normal” user might want working group membership emails to go through but other group membership to be handled at the forum.
Thank you for your time and effort.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2020, 9:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notification-granularity/164371/2 "2020-09-18T21:18:44Z")
You can set notification level per group. Look in the upper right corner for the bell icon.
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### Author:  [@Darin\_Simmons](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Darin_Simmons)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2020, 1:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notification-granularity/164371/3 "2020-09-19T01:15:09Z")
@codinghorror I think there may have been a miscommunication or I don’t understand.
I’m talking about email notifications. I’m under the impression that the notifications under the bell are for on site notifications. Are you saying there is a way to modify email notifications under the bell?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2020, 12:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notification-granularity/164371/4 "2020-09-21T00:23:35Z")
There are two concepts here
- When do you get emailed
- When do you get a Discourse notification
They are two different and somewhat unrelated topics.
Note that Discourse won’t email you about a notification if you are browsing the site and clicking / tapping around – because that would be double-notifying you. There are also some notifications that Discourse doesn’t think are worthy of an email notification, ever.
The general philosophy is that
- you will get **notified** when someone is speaking directly to you.
- you will get an **email about that notification** if it is significant (e.g. someone is talking directly to you), _and_ you are away from the website – no devices are actively pinging the website while logged in as you.
It is possible to dial this to 11 if you want an email for everything. You might have a look at the email preferences in your user profile to get a sense of where you want that to be for your account. But out of the box, it works as I describe 👆.
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### Author:  [@Darin\_Simmons](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Darin_Simmons)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2020, 8:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notification-granularity/164371/5 "2020-09-21T20:14:17Z")
Gotcha. I had it wrong it my head that the two systems were completely independent. No, the email notifications are a follow-on of _some_ of the site notifications. Thank you for taking the time to explain.
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### Author:  [@james10](https://meta.discourse.org/u/james10)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2026, 1:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notification-granularity/164371/6 "2026-05-05T13:13:56Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> It is possible to dial this to 11 if you want an email for everything. You might have a look at the email preferences in your user profile to get a sense of where you want that to be for your account. But out of the box, it works as I describe 👆.
Hi there, is there a way to change email notifications on a group level?
I have a lot of new users complaining they currently receive. I presume I would change these to never?
When I go to check that, it only offers to change maybe 50% of our users.
Any help would be great
