# Email templates - user\_watching\_first\_post - not available

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-templates-user-watching-first-post-not-available/51674
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [October 18, 2016, 9:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-templates-user-watching-first-post-not-available/51674 "2016-10-18T09:09:55Z")
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### Author: ![sniepoort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sniepoort/32/62922_2.png) [@sniepoort](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sniepoort)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2016, 9:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-templates-user-watching-first-post-not-available/51674/1 "2016-10-18T09:09:55Z")

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You recently added another email template that was missing (custom\_invite\_forum\_mailer). Thanks!

Could you also add this one that I just noticed is also missing - user\_watching\_first\_post? You would think that it would use the user\_posted template, but it doesn’t.

Furthermore, when looking at mails sent with the user\_posted email type, it isn’t using our subject line correctly. Is there more logic to it than meets the eye?  
We have the subject as: ` [%{site_name}] %{subject_prefix}%{username} wrote a post in '%{topic_title}'`  
However, a new topic (without any posts), just generates `[%{site_name}] %{subject_prefix}`

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### Author: ![sniepoort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sniepoort/32/62922_2.png) [@sniepoort](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sniepoort)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2016, 12:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-templates-user-watching-first-post-not-available/51674/2 "2016-10-18T12:26:34Z")

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I did some digging, and I found that user\_watching\_first\_post actually uses the user\_posted template.  
So why is the standard subject line being used?