# Option to force email context **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature\ **Created:** [11월 21, 2014, 7:45오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/option-to-force-email-context/22401 "2014-11-21T19:45:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**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:** [12월 18, 2014, 6:16오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/option-to-force-email-context/22401/2 "2014-12-18T06:16:43Z")
Glad to be directed here, as I had missed it when I encountered this issue and [wrote my own post](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-posts-context-setting-ignored-when-sending-notifications-of-new-posts-immediately/23196/4) about people lacking context in email notifications. A user-configurable option would work for us. But what I was actually talking about is the head-scratch-inducing fact that even when you have the admin setting “email post context” set to say 5 posts it does not show the 5 previous posts to people who have asked to receive every email. This is the setting I am talking about: ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/f/6/f6204ecc76eecc15eb95bd8f114b22830c11e3a1.png) I can understand that gmail users or users of clients that display threaded views of emails would not want to see this extra info, but some of my users have complained about the lack of context. I guess they are used to scrolling down to see what everyone else has been saying before replying, rather than referring to previously received emails or scrolling up to see the previous emails in threaded views. @riking explains this is because the user has already received the messages. Makes sense, but not for the people who still want to see the context in every notification they get from discourse. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/option-to-force-email-context/22401)._