# Pushing critical messages to emails
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/pushing-critical-messages-to-emails/71655
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [10월 9, 2017, 5:50오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pushing-critical-messages-to-emails/71655 "2017-10-09T05:50:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@CarlFK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/CarlFK)
#### Post date: [10월 9, 2017, 5:50오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pushing-critical-messages-to-emails/71655/1 "2017-10-09T05:50:44Z")
A group of 500 is looking to use Discourse for our org.
In addition to members wanting to post questions and discuses things, we need to announce things, like “there will be a vote at the next meeting” or “the power is out, don’t bother coming in.”
Currently we have a DB of everyone’s email and will loop over the list and send everyone a message. I am hoping we can replace that by posting to a topic that is set up like an -announce email list.
I don’t want rely on the user doing any setup, (I don’t want to have to explain that the reason they didn’t get an email was because they didn’t set it up.) I am hoping there is some elegant way of configuring new users to bet setup like this. I am OK with them turning it off later.
This would also apply to new categories of critical communication being created, start with everyone getting an email.
Maybe even not allowing the user to turn off email. Our current system doeesn’t allow the to stop us from sending them email. Not surprising, I think we send out a blast about once every 3 weeks.
Is this something that is easy, or has been discussed, or something? I am not sure what to search for.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [10월 9, 2017, 6:17오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pushing-critical-messages-to-emails/71655/2 "2017-10-09T18:17:30Z")
What you want is for members of a group to be forced to watch a category. If you are “watching” a category then you get every message posted to it.
See [Make members of a group watch a category by default](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-members-of-a-group-watch-a-category-by-default/22127).
I think that someone made a plugin that will do this, but that it has no admin interface (that is, the group to category mapping is hard-coded in the plugin). You’d need to fork or copy the plugin and add your own group mappings.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [11월 6, 2019, 3:23오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pushing-critical-messages-to-emails/71655/3 "2019-11-06T15:23:30Z")
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### Author:  [@justin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/justin)
#### Post date: [11월 6, 2019, 3:37오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pushing-critical-messages-to-emails/71655/4 "2019-11-06T15:37:41Z")
카테고리 관찰 기본값은 이제 `default categories` 사이트 설정을 변경하여 역사적으로 설정됩니다.
> [@(Obsolete) Set category tracking level defaults historically](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-set-category-tracking-level-defaults-historically/53165):
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> warning Following the release of Discourse v2.4.0.beta7 (or if you have [this commit](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/b2f682f35eba0cc3f09588356ecf8d1dd824542f)), admins now have the option to set the category tracking levels of all existing users when setting the default category tracking levels in their site settings: Add a category to one of the following site settings, then select the green checkbox button. A modal window will pop up with the following options: play_button The old way using the console
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [7월 27, 2023, 2:46오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pushing-critical-messages-to-emails/71655/5 "2023-07-27T14:46:32Z")
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### Author:  [@Jonathan5](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jonathan5)
#### Post date: [7월 27, 2023, 5:40오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pushing-critical-messages-to-emails/71655/6 "2023-07-27T17:40:08Z")
일부 “역사적” 변경 사항은 이전 기본 설정을 이미 직접 변경한 사용자(또는 "모든 사용자"가 아닌 경우)에게만 적용됩니다. 이 변경 사항도 해당 사항이 있나요?
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [9월 5, 2023, 7:36오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pushing-critical-messages-to-emails/71655/7 "2023-09-05T07:36:44Z")
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