# How quickly are notifications sent?

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [April 5, 2022, 5:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-quickly-are-notifications-sent/223384 "2022-04-05T17:44:37Z")\
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There generally is a (configurable) delay between a mention being made ane the notification being sent to prevent this kind of situation. Whether a notification was sent or not will depend upon the configured delay and the fact that the user was online or not.

Edit: the setting is called `email time window mins `

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