# Pending posts notification for moderators
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/pending-posts-notification-for-moderators/209898
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 22, 2021, 6:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pending-posts-notification-for-moderators/209898 "2021-11-22T18:54:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@K\_Tysinger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/K_Tysinger)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2021, 6:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pending-posts-notification-for-moderators/209898/1 "2021-11-22T18:54:58Z")
I can’t find a way to notify the moderators that pending messages are waiting. Please advise.
I have searched the form and I can’t find the answer. One guy said this feature was added “two weeks ago”, but I can’t find it.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2021, 7:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pending-posts-notification-for-moderators/209898/2 "2021-11-22T19:00:09Z")
> [@K\_Tysinger](#):
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> I can’t find a way to notify the moderators that pending messages are waiting. Please advise.
Messages waiting to be approved should show up in the Review queue.
Do you have the boxes ticked for it in the category settings?
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### Author:  [@K\_Tysinger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/K_Tysinger)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2021, 11:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pending-posts-notification-for-moderators/209898/3 "2021-11-23T11:58:15Z")
I’m sorry for being unclear. Specifically, I want to email the moderators each time a new post or reply is waiting for approval.
Sometimes I go hours and hours before checking the board and finding old messages waiting to be approved.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2021, 12:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pending-posts-notification-for-moderators/209898/4 "2021-11-23T12:20:00Z")
There’s a ‘notify about queued posts after’ setting that may be useful?
That will send a notification out, and should send an email soon after (depending on your email preferences)
**Update:** I set this on my test site for 1 hour. I did indeed get a notification sent to my test moderator for the queued posts, ~~but **no email** was sent out (both email settings were set to ‘Always’). I’ll have another look.~~
I did get an email for this one after I set the Notifications to ‘Watching’ as @osioke suggested. 👍
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**Edit:** After a little rummage around, I also found this one for flags:
**Update #2** I then set this one to ‘1’, and my test moderator got a private message after the hour saying there were items to review. This one did send an email. 👍
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### Author:  [@osioke](https://meta.discourse.org/u/osioke)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2021, 3:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pending-posts-notification-for-moderators/209898/8 "2021-11-23T15:37:51Z")
To add to what @JammyDodger said, my colleague @dax just reminded me that moderators will be notified/emailed only if they set the moderators inbox to “Watching”.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2021, 6:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pending-posts-notification-for-moderators/209898/9 "2021-11-23T18:29:46Z")
I’ve tripped over myself a bit with this. 🙂
I did not get the email from the first test (`notify about queued posts after`) because the Moderator inbox default is ‘Tracking’ and not ‘Watching’. You can change this default by going to `/g/moderators/manage/interaction`.
The emails I received were indeed from the second test (`notify about flags after`), as those reminders were sent as PMs.
Both seemed to work for ‘approved posts’ though.
I’ll go back and edit the other post (again). 👍
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### Author:  [@K\_Tysinger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/K_Tysinger)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2021, 6:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pending-posts-notification-for-moderators/209898/10 "2021-11-24T18:35:18Z")
I would have never figured this out by myself – thanks!
I put a fraction in the notify field (0.25). Let you know if it works.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2021, 6:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pending-posts-notification-for-moderators/209898/11 "2021-11-24T18:36:32Z")
I tried that too, and it does not. 🙂 If you check back again now, it will have reverted to 0.
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### Author:  [@osioke](https://meta.discourse.org/u/osioke)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2021, 10:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pending-posts-notification-for-moderators/209898/12 "2021-11-25T10:45:04Z")
Doesn’t setting the moderator inbox to watching not resolve the issue for you?
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### Author:  [@K\_Tysinger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/K_Tysinger)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2021, 12:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pending-posts-notification-for-moderators/209898/13 "2021-11-25T12:04:53Z")
My forum only has 6 members, so I am waiting on somebody to post… Let you know.
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### Author:  [@osioke](https://meta.discourse.org/u/osioke)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2021, 2:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pending-posts-notification-for-moderators/209898/14 "2021-11-26T14:21:03Z")
2 posts were split to a new topic: [How to change a group notification setting on mobile](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-a-group-notification-setting-on-mobile/210229)
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2022, 12:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pending-posts-notification-for-moderators/209898/15 "2022-07-12T12:12:11Z")
I have revisited this as after a re-read it seemed a little on the scrappy side. 🙂
From my ‘fresh-eyes’ test I have discovered that:
- Setting the Moderator inbox to ‘Watching’ (and the mod’s PM email user preference to ‘always’) you will immediately get a notification alongside the red Review Queue one, and an email sent out, but only for the **something else** flags. The others will not generate a message in the Moderator’s inbox, so won’t trigger any inbox notifications.
- But if you also set `notify about flags after` to the minimum of 1 hour rather than the default 48 then that will send out a PM to the Moderator inbox, which will trigger a notification and then an email.
- There is also the `notify about queued posts after` admin setting, which is only concerned with those posts which require approval.
- And a similar one `pending users reminder delay minutes` for users needing approval
Hopefully that is a little clearer. 🙂