# Email notifications for posts made by a specific user
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notifications-for-posts-made-by-a-specific-user/96963
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 11, 2018, 4:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notifications-for-posts-made-by-a-specific-user/96963 "2018-09-11T16:01:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Scot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Scot)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2018, 4:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notifications-for-posts-made-by-a-specific-user/96963/1 "2018-09-11T16:01:52Z")
Hi,
One of my clients is looking to receive email notifications for posts made by me only. Is there a way to do this?
Thank you,
Scot
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### Author:  [@supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supermathie)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2018, 4:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notifications-for-posts-made-by-a-specific-user/96963/2 "2018-09-11T16:12:22Z")
We don’t support watching individual users that way, though I would suggest they could consume your user’s RSS feed.
For example, [https://meta.discourse.org/u/scot/activity.rss](https://meta.discourse.org/u/scot/activity.rss)
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### Author:  [@Scot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Scot)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2018, 4:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notifications-for-posts-made-by-a-specific-user/96963/3 "2018-09-11T16:48:43Z")
Thank you Michael!
I was not aware of this option. I was able to add that link to [NetNewsWire: Free and Open Source RSS Reader for Mac, iPhone, and iPad](http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/) and it worked great. My discourse is behind the login for my website so I think that might be causing an error with the newsreader. I am trying to figure out if I can add the login information for my website to the newsreader so it can read the feed. So far I am not having any luck :frowning:
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2018, 5:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notifications-for-posts-made-by-a-specific-user/96963/4 "2018-09-11T17:10:56Z")
If you’re a forum admin, you can generate an API key from the admin interface for the client’s account and add this link to the RSS reader instead:
```
https://discourse.example.com/u/scot/activity.rss?api_username=client_username&api_key=1234abcd
```
Make sure to generate a single-account admin API key and not an all-users key.
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### Author:  [@supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supermathie)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2018, 5:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notifications-for-posts-made-by-a-specific-user/96963/5 "2018-09-11T17:22:00Z")
> [@riking](#):
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> API key from the admin interface for the client’s account
Be VERY CAREFUL doing this - both you and the user should understand that this API key represents credentials to BE that user and should be kept secure.
We do have a method for having the user create API keys and restricting scope on those… but I do not believe that is exposed in the UI.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2018, 6:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notifications-for-posts-made-by-a-specific-user/96963/6 "2018-09-11T18:09:39Z")
As of Discourse 2.1, API keys auto-expire after ~6 months of non-use. Far from a complete solution but it does offer some general protection.
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2018, 6:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notifications-for-posts-made-by-a-specific-user/96963/7 "2018-09-11T18:18:18Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> API keys auto-expire
This is only the case for scoped “user API keys”, which are different from the global API keys in the admin panel.
As @supermathie said, there is no way to create user API keys from the user interface. I think they are only currently used for the mobile app.
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### Author:  [@Scot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Scot)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2018, 6:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notifications-for-posts-made-by-a-specific-user/96963/8 "2018-09-11T18:45:47Z")
Thanks for all the info guys. I really appreciate it.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2021, 3:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-notifications-for-posts-made-by-a-specific-user/96963/9 "2021-05-07T15:58:21Z")