# How do I disable outgoing email partially?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-disable-outgoing-email-partially/146598
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [April 2, 2020, 5:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-disable-outgoing-email-partially/146598 "2020-04-02T17:15:02Z")
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### Author: ![tobiaseigen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tobiaseigen/32/539204_2.png) [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2020, 6:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-disable-outgoing-email-partially/146598/5 "2020-04-02T18:15:07Z")

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no those are unrelated.

if this is a new site, you can set default user preferences via the admin settings.

if not, you can do it via the rails console. [Edit a user preference for everyone or a subset of users](https://meta.discourse.org/t/edit-a-user-setting-for-all-discourse-users/25162)

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