# Replacing email/notification.html via custom Plugin - tips?
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**Created:** [May 15, 2018, 12:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replacing-email-notification-html-via-custom-plugin-tips/87529 "2018-05-15T12:02:47Z")\
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**Author:**  [@Maisy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Maisy)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 3:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replacing-email-notification-html-via-custom-plugin-tips/87529/3 "2018-05-16T15:18:18Z")
Well, since yesterdaty, I’ve managed to make _something_ happen. I don’t think it’s particularly clean, but here it is.
In my **plugin.rb** file:
```rb
# This attempts to override the Notification Emails by sliding in
# our custom template directory first.
require_dependency 'user_notifications'
module ::UserNotificationsOverride
def send_notification_email(opts)
Rails.configuration.paths["app/views"].unshift(File.expand_path("../templates", __FILE__ ))
super(opts)
end
end
class ::UserNotifications
prepend ::UserNotificationsOverride
end
```
…and then adjacent to the plugin file is a **template/** directory that contains customised .erb files using the same structure as below **/app/views**. So my plugin now looks like:
```plaintext
/my-email-plugin
├── plugin.rb
└── templates
└── email
├── _post.html.erb
├── invite.html.erb
├── notification.html.erb
└── template.html.erb
```
What I wanted to do was shift my custom templates folder ahead of the default, in an attempt to replicate what the `::ActionMailer::Base.prepend_view_path` line was doing, but without breaking anything else or by carbon-copying the entire `send_notification_email` method for the sake of changing one line.
If you can think of any ways to improve this, then please do share. 🙂
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