# Help Needed: Discourse Sending Excessive Email Notifications

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-needed-discourse-sending-excessive-email-notifications/347391>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Tags:** email\
**Created:** [January 16, 2025, 7:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-needed-discourse-sending-excessive-email-notifications/347391 "2025-01-16T07:05:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Heliosurge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/heliosurge/32/571810_2.png) [@Heliosurge](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Heliosurge)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2025, 4:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-needed-discourse-sending-excessive-email-notifications/347391/10 "2025-01-17T04:56:08Z")

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If you haven’t changed defaults in Site Settings\User Preferences then this is not likely an issue that caused your mass emailing

 ![The image shows a settings interface with options for selecting default topics that automatically unpin, categories that are watched, muted, or still get watched for the first post, as well as default categories that are not muted and a reset button for each category. (Captioned by AI)](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/b/6/3/b6324ba57031c33f1615fb78bd54ff61ebf93e71.jpeg)

Under the Admin.sidebar, all site settings, user preferences you can set a variety of defaults like you would in your own Preferences on your profile and have the apply to all users in the admin area.

If you have created groups you can also set member defaults for category and tag notifications.

Educating your members on notification types might also be an ideal.

What Jay said though about limiting number of daily emails per user is your best option to have best control.

Same area “All site settings” search term ‘max email’ it is under email section. But here is a SS for ease

 ![The image displays the "Max email" settings window in Maximal, showing the maximum number of emails per day per user is set to 15, the maximum staged users per email is set to 10, and the maximum recipients per new group email is also set to 10. (Captioned by AI)](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/5/b/b/5bb65fb0f1f7af41097bea3263745a8280c0c769.jpeg)

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