# Email Notification recipients unclear when PM is sent to multiple users

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notification-recipients-unclear-when-pm-is-sent-to-multiple-users/26934
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** email
**Created:** [29 maart 2015 om 00:52 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notification-recipients-unclear-when-pm-is-sent-to-multiple-users/26934 "2015-03-29T00:52:30Z")
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### Author: ![tobiaseigen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tobiaseigen/32/539204_2.png) [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [4 maart 2016 om 15:05 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notification-recipients-unclear-when-pm-is-sent-to-multiple-users/26934/14 "2016-03-04T15:05:42Z")

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This has come up now in my community now that we are starting to make more active use of messaging, especially group messaging. I like all of these suggestions but would love to see _something_ happen as soon as possible to ensure happy uptake of messaging. So can we get some low hanging fruit solution in place?

So far it seems to be:

- @DeanMarkTaylor suggested adding names at the top of the message
- @sam suggested adding names as email recipients (a big cc list)
- @scombs suggested replicating the recipients web view at the bottom of the email

Here’s another idea. In the [Group message notification email: change "Visit Topic" to "Visit Message"](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-message-notification-email-change-visit-topic-to-visit-message/38358/3) I suggested the following which @codinghorror seemed to like:

> [@Group message notification email: change "Visit Topic" to "Visit Message"](https://meta.discourse.org/t/group-message-notification-email-change-visit-topic-to-visit-message/38358/3):
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> What this makes me realize is that it would be handy to be informed in the email why you were notified about a given topic or message. E.g. as relevant one of the following would be added ahead of the “To stop receiving…” text.
> 
> You received this because you were mentioned.  
> You received this because your @foo group was mentioned.  
> You received this because you are watching #foo category.  
> You received this because you are watching #foo tag.
> 
> I don’t especially like the idea of making this text longer so maybe there’s another way to indicate context, e.g. by adding it to the subject line or heading.

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