# Filtering the email digest by category
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/filtering-the-email-digest-by-category/35961
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** activity-summary
**Created:** [11월 23, 2015, 11:19오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/filtering-the-email-digest-by-category/35961 "2015-11-23T23:19:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@gdpelican](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gdpelican)
#### Post date: [11월 23, 2015, 11:19오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/filtering-the-email-digest-by-category/35961/1 "2015-11-23T23:19:26Z")
Hey Discourse,
I recently got a feature request for Babble to suppress chat notifications in the email digest. It’s a feature I don’t really want to develop in the plugin (Babble touches enough parts of the application already, so getting into email land is just another thing that can break), but was wondering if we might be able to put in a site setting to white-or-blacklist certain categories from appearing, which would enable folks to simply blacklist the ‘Chat’ category.
Seems like there’d also be a use case where folks might not be interested in a ‘Random’ category in their email, or maybe some site owner wants to send out just ‘Announcements’ or something.
Maybe this is possible already somehow?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [11월 23, 2015, 11:25오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/filtering-the-email-digest-by-category/35961/2 "2015-11-23T23:25:28Z")
Already happens if the category is muted.
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### Author:  [@gdpelican](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gdpelican)
#### Post date: [11월 23, 2015, 11:29오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/filtering-the-email-digest-by-category/35961/3 "2015-11-23T23:29:45Z")
Is there a way to set a default notification level for a category?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [11월 24, 2015, 12:21오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/filtering-the-email-digest-by-category/35961/4 "2015-11-24T00:21:43Z")
Visit the category, look at the upper right. Or your user preferences.
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### Author:  [@gdpelican](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gdpelican)
#### Post date: [11월 24, 2015, 12:32오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/filtering-the-email-digest-by-category/35961/5 "2015-11-24T00:32:15Z")
Sorry, I was unclear. I meant, as an admin, is there a way for me to make it so that all future users will receive a certain notification level for a category, without further work on their part?
IE, I want people who sign up to be ‘tracking’ the ‘Announcements’ category, but the ‘Chat’ category is muted by default. (Then they could individually change those settings manually if they cared.)
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [11월 24, 2015, 12:33오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/filtering-the-email-digest-by-category/35961/6 "2015-11-24T00:33:33Z")
Yes, that is in the Admin area, do a search for `default categories `
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [12월 4, 2025, 11:37오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/filtering-the-email-digest-by-category/35961/7 "2025-12-04T11:37:08Z")