Hello, hope you’re doing well: I would like to be fully able to customize how emails look (e.g: Change layout, remove profile pictures, round edges, etc), how would I go around this? For example I want to amend summary emails: [The image displays a user interface of the Discourse forum showcasing sections like 'Since your last visit', 'Popular Topics', and 'New in topics and categories you follow'. (Captioned by AI)] And I would like to be able to customize response emails: [The image displays a partial screenshot of a messaging interface with redacted content, showing a misspelled text "testh ow are you !" and a section labelled "Participants" also obscured. (Captioned by AI)] Appreciate any responses in advance.

Horray! I’ve managed to customise the emails by using a custom plugin inspired by: [image] Replacing email/notification.html via custom Plugin - tips? Development I’ve figured out what the issue was. The code for plugin.rb needs to be put inside after_initialize: after_initialize do require_dependency 'user_notifications' module ::UserNotificationsOverride def send_notification_email(opts) Rails.configuration.paths["app/views"].unshift(File.expand_path("../templates", __FILE__)) super(opts) end end class ::UserNotifications prepend ::UserNotificationsOverride end end That’s working fin… Then I customised the .erb files inside of the templates directory. :partying_face: A big thanks to all those that helped me! :heart:

Not quite sure what you mean by customising responses since they are sent by other people (and I don’t think anyone responds to digests anyway…) but this is a good place to start: Configuring Activity Summary emails

Sorry, let me clarify this when I say “customise response emails” I mean I want to amend the way it looks when a user gets an email notification when somebody responds to their topic. In my use case, I have made it so that groups can be emailed. Let’s say User A emails into Group B, then let’s say a member of Group B responds to User A’s message, User A will get an email which consists of a profile picture, message content and the name of the member from Group B, at the moment I don’t like the way the email looks. For example; I want to remove the profile picture of the user that responds to User A’s message, I also want to change the way the text looks and many other factors of the email. How would I go around doing this?

I’ve already taken a look at this, this does still not provide me with the knowledge I need to achieve the desired effect, this is as it only affects the outer email template. For example how would I go around removing these components? [The image shows a screenshot of an email draft with placeholder text, a logo at the top, and highlighted text indicating user names and dates. (Captioned by AI)] I’ve tried changing the templates of my email notifications in /admin/customize/email_templates but none of the events seem to apply for when somebody emails in.

I’m all outta answers, sorry. Not my wheelhouse!

I think your can hide them with css,though I’m not sure why you want the person receiving the message not to know who wrote it. That said, I’m not quite sure where your customize the email css.

Perhaps I will try amending the css via /admin/customize/email_style/css to see if I can get the desired affect.

Just want to point out that in Gmail .webp images appear very strange… Png Format: [image] Webp Format: [image] The WebP file bog-standard: [theguy] Luckily, this is not a crucial issue for us, but something I would like to point out for others.

[image] Noah: this does still not provide me with the knowledge I need to achieve the desired effect, this is as it only affects the outer email template. It’s a complicated system, but that topic links to a topic about how to customize the inner content of email messages: Customizing specific system email templates. The idea is that you’re supposed to be able to customize the specific templates by selecting them from the admin / customize / email page. For the User Posted template, you’ll see something like this: %{header_instructions} %{message} %{context} %{respond_instructions} I think you could remove the bottom item from your screenshot by removing the %{context} placeholder.

How can I fully personalise the appearance of emails?

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HAWK (Hawk) May 27, 2024, 8:35pm 6

This may be a good place to start: Customizing the Discourse outer email template

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