# Force email notification for new users
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/force-email-notification-for-new-users/52933
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 15, 2016, 8:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/force-email-notification-for-new-users/52933 "2016-11-15T20:24:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@weneverknow](https://meta.discourse.org/u/weneverknow)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2016, 8:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/force-email-notification-for-new-users/52933/1 "2016-11-15T20:24:39Z")
Hello,
I am using a discourse instance to manage a co-ownership website.
Most of house owner are noobs, and they won’t come very often on the website.
I invited all the user to use the website but i would like to force email notification for EACH topic that is created on discourse in ALL categories. I would like also that they receive an email when somebody answer in a topic.
Problem is, i can’t call each owner and tell him “you have to clic on follow this thread” or “Watch this category” for all category. How can i force that in the discourse instance for all user ? Alternatively, how can i tweak the database to get them receiving email notification each time a topic is created ?
Please apologies my poor english, i’m French 😃
Thank you community !
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### Author:  [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2016, 4:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/force-email-notification-for-new-users/52933/2 "2016-11-16T16:38:55Z")
What you are looking for is mailing list mode. Users can turn it on via preferences, and you can also make it the default via the `default email mailing list mode` site setting.
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2018, 1:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/force-email-notification-for-new-users/52933/3 "2018-02-08T13:49:48Z")
> [@weneverknow](#):
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> Most of house owner are noobs, and they won’t come very often on the website.
I have two discourse sites, one of them is a building community and I have EXACTLY the same issue.
Is it possible to do it on a per Topic basis when something is urgent?
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2020, 10:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/force-email-notification-for-new-users/52933/4 "2020-05-13T10:10:04Z")
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2024, 7:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/force-email-notification-for-new-users/52933/5 "2024-07-21T19:50:50Z")
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2024, 8:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/force-email-notification-for-new-users/52933/6 "2024-07-21T20:30:38Z")