# Reduce the number of emails sent by Discourse

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/reduce-the-number-of-emails-sent-by-discourse/141245>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Tags:** email\
**Created:** [February 11, 2020, 2:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reduce-the-number-of-emails-sent-by-discourse/141245 "2020-02-11T02:48:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 2:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reduce-the-number-of-emails-sent-by-discourse/141245/4 "2020-02-11T02:54:05Z")

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If that is 1 and default is weekly digest, you never send digests 🙃. That would be a good information to provide in the OP when requesting help to lower email sent.

> [@dandv](#):
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> The [#1 `email_type` I see in the logs](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-types-not-translated/55758/3) is `mailing_list` .

If you can afford it, disable mailing list in your instance. Use `disable mailing list mode`.

Users using this mode can easily be a sizable pie of all emails sent.

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