In a Support discussion titled “Footer at bottom of automated emails?”, ScottWorld asks how to add a custom footer to automated Discourse emails, such as subscription notifications. awesomerobot points to a Meta Discourse guide for editing the outer email template, noting that the footer should be added there. ScottWorld replies that while they followed the guide, the footer appeared with inconsistent formatting — wrong font, size, and alignment — and asks if there’s a way to style it properly. SailReal agrees, expressing a desire for a global footer option across all email templates, initially mentioning GDPR compliance (later corrected). tobiaseigen questions what GDPR text is missing, noting that automated system emails typically don’t require legal footers. SailReal acknowledges the point, clarifying that such emails are system-generated and likely not legally required to include footers. The thread highlights a common user need for consistent, styled footers in automated emails, though no definitive solution for formatting issues is provided.
At the bottom of the automated Discourse emails that get sent to users (such as the automated emails that get sent to users when they are subscribed to a thread), is there a way for me to add a “footer” at the bottom of the emails?
This “footer” would just be a single line of text that says who the sponsor of the forum is. So it would be like a “one-line text advertisement” at the bottom of the automated emails.
I went into “Admin > Customize > Email Style”, but I couldn’t figure out how to do it.
That was actually exactly where I added my text before posting to these forums, but it came in all weirdly formatted. It was a completely different font & size than the rest of the text, and it was pushed up against the left margin with no spacing between it and the next (auto-generated) line provided by Discourse.
Do you have any idea how to format the text properly on that line?
Sure I could apply it to all of the templates but as soon as a new email template is added to Discourse, I would miss to add it so a base footer for all templates would be amazing.
What text is required by GDPR in emails sent by Discourse that is missing? I don’t think there is anything you need to do here. We have many sites in Europe that have to comply with GDPR and we’ve not heard this before.
