Is there a way to ensure certain topics are definitely included in the summary email?

[dax (Daniela)]

@debryc

I don’t want every user to receive an email every time a topic is created in Announcements

You can set the category in a way that only admins can create topics inside that category and no one else and the other users can only read them.

@debryc

How does that affect the summary emails?

However if you want to send only the summary emails this setting is not for you, it does not affect the summary emails because in any case links of topics that are “New for you” are still sent, see

Admin guide to Activity Summary emails

What is an Activity Summary email? The Discourse “Activity Summary” (formerly known as the digest email) is an email sent out to members of a forum who haven’t visited in a specific period with a collection of the most popular content since their last visit. Click here to see User Options and here for Admin Options [image] Summary Email Contents The email includes the following, automatically: Some activity statistics to emphasise activity levels A list of the most popular topics A selecti…