# How to get email notifications when new users have signed up?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-get-email-notifications-when-new-users-have-signed-up/57783
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [February 22, 2017, 12:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-get-email-notifications-when-new-users-have-signed-up/57783 "2017-02-22T12:40:49Z")
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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2019, 11:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-get-email-notifications-when-new-users-have-signed-up/57783/13 "2019-03-31T23:19:34Z")

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The general concern I have here is that this is making “system” create noise posts.

One alternative is using [Discourse Policy](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-policy/88557) to define a “policy” that applies to say TL0 in a tiny community, reminding them to post an “about me” topic.

I feel that getting System to do all the work here kind of detracts from the “Introduce yourself” aspect here where welcomes are far more personal.

There are a bunch of other options here, including unlocking a section of reviewable users (in our new reviewable system by @eviltrout) to a wider audience, so anyone say TL1 and up can “review” the new users and do the needful of saying hello and starting a conversation.

I totally get the underlying problem that, signing up is easy, making people say hello is hard.

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