# Receive an email for only new topics?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/receive-an-email-for-only-new-topics/43423>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [April 29, 2016, 2:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/receive-an-email-for-only-new-topics/43423 "2016-04-29T02:13:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2016, 2:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/receive-an-email-for-only-new-topics/43423/2 "2016-04-29T02:19:31Z")

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You can watch a category, but you’d be getting an email for every reply and every new topic in the category.

This has come up enough that it might make sense for us to add a “topics only” watch, but I am not clear how this can be done in the existing UI.

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