# 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")\
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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:** [September 21, 2020, 12:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notification-granularity/164371/4 "2020-09-21T00:23:35Z")

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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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