# Email topic Category stubs

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-topic-category-stubs/311200
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** email
**Created:** [June 7, 2024, 10:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-topic-category-stubs/311200 "2024-06-07T22:14:26Z")
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### Author: ![ZLMarshall](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zlmarshall/32/423027_2.png) [@ZLMarshall](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ZLMarshall)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2024, 10:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-topic-category-stubs/311200/1 "2024-06-07T22:14:26Z")

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Apologies if this has been answered, but I was reading through:

> [@Customizing specific system email templates](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customize-specific-email-templates/88323):
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> Customizing specific system email templatesbookmark This guide explains how to customize the individual email templates that Discourse uses for account notifications, invitations, admin alerts, and other system emails. person_raising_hand Required user level: Administrator Discourse sends a variety of emails — account confirmations, password resets, notification digests, invitation messages, and more. Each of these is built from an individual email template that you can customize. This…

and related topics and haven’t found something. Is it possible to create a custom stub for email Category names? We have some long-ish category names for clarity’s sake, but these then create very long email subject lines, and on mobile devices it means the real ‘meat’ of the topic name is obscursed because of the Category. I’m considering maybe moving the category to the _end_ of the subject, but that’s not normal for these types of email classification markers. What I’d like is to be able to provide a stub (e.g. in Category settings) that is used instead of the full category title when creating an email subject.

Is that possible?

Thanks in advance for the help!