# Email notification settings per category
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notification-settings-per-category/21346
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [October 20, 2014, 6:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notification-settings-per-category/21346 "2014-10-20T18:29:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Wowl](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Wowl)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2014, 6:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notification-settings-per-category/21346/1 "2014-10-20T18:29:21Z")
It would be awesome to allow users to set their notification preferences per category. Currently you receive new topics in all categories in your digest, unless you mute them. But if you enable mailing list mode, this changes to every post unless muted. Now people might want to not hear anything about category A, only receive new topics from category B, and follow every new post from category C.
Adding to this it should be possible to set these notifications to either instant or every X hours/days.
To crown it all the ability to preset this for new users would be amazing.
With this added featureset Discourse can match up with mailing lists and the barrier for those many people loving email would be small.
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### Author:  [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2014, 6:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notification-settings-per-category/21346/2 "2014-10-20T18:35:30Z")
It’s currently possible to go to a category page, e.g., [https://meta.discourse.org/c/feature](https://meta.discourse.org/c/feature), and “Watch” a category so you get notifications for every post/topic in that category. It’s done the same way as watching/tracking/muting a specific topic.
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### Author:  [@Wowl](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Wowl)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2014, 6:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notification-settings-per-category/21346/3 "2014-10-20T18:50:37Z")
Thank you, I’m aware of that option. It is a workaround - and will do until somewhen such specific preferences can be implemented.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2014, 1:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notification-settings-per-category/21346/4 "2014-10-21T01:30:52Z")
The digest email should do a better job of paying attention to your muted categories, at least. Can you add this to your list @zogstrip? Make sure the digest does not pick any topics in categories you have muted.
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2014, 3:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notification-settings-per-category/21346/5 "2014-11-03T15:59:47Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> Make sure the digest does not pick any topics in categories you have muted.
Was already handled. I just added a spec to make sure it doesn’t break but I’m fairly confident that it has always worked since it was originally added ([April 17th, 2014](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/89aa2380c68434d76d5dd837aeb1b327171d0a8d))
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/fd5677808cea3b4868c6bfe508eeea9a26ed49a4](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/fd5677808cea3b4868c6bfe508eeea9a26ed49a4)
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 11:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notification-settings-per-category/21346/6 "2025-12-04T11:32:29Z")