# Send me an email for every new post and tracking
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/send-me-an-email-for-every-new-post-and-tracking/41216
**Category:** Site feedback
**Created:** [17 Marzo, 2016 17:25 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/send-me-an-email-for-every-new-post-and-tracking/41216 "2016-03-17T17:25:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@sudhirkhanger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sudhirkhanger)
#### Post date: [17 Marzo, 2016 17:25 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/send-me-an-email-for-every-new-post-and-tracking/41216/1 "2016-03-17T17:25:12Z")
Hi,
Earlier I had enabled Tracking for a particular category. I wasn’t receiving new topic or post emails. As soon as I enabled `Send me an email for every new post` I started receiving email notification of for all topics and posts.
How are these two related?
Is the only difference between tracking and normal is that tracking adds a count of new replies is shown?
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [17 Marzo, 2016 17:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/send-me-an-email-for-every-new-post-and-tracking/41216/2 "2016-03-17T17:55:38Z")
To get an email for every message in a given category, check out the `watched` setting:
> [@](#):
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> You will automatically watch all new topics in these categories. You will be notified of all new posts and topics, and a count of new posts will also appear next to the topic.
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### Author:  [@sudhirkhanger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sudhirkhanger)
#### Post date: [17 Marzo, 2016 18:01 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/send-me-an-email-for-every-new-post-and-tracking/41216/3 "2016-03-17T18:01:30Z")
I don’t want email notification for every message but an email notification for each new topic which it seems is not possible with Discourse. And then I can decide which topic I want to participate in. Email notification for new topics in a category is a pretty common feature for forums.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [18 Marzo, 2016 00:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/send-me-an-email-for-every-new-post-and-tracking/41216/4 "2016-03-18T00:06:52Z")
I have no idea what you’re talking about. Watch the category and you will get emailed every new reply in that category.
Note that the first post in a brand new topic is considered a reply, too…
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### Author:  [@sudhirkhanger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sudhirkhanger)
#### Post date: [18 Marzo, 2016 03:13 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/send-me-an-email-for-every-new-post-and-tracking/41216/5 "2016-03-18T03:13:29Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> Note that the first post in a brand new topic is considered a reply, too…
It is not a topic I have replied to. My reply indicate I want to participate in a topic. Just a new reply doesn’t indicate I am interest in that topic.
My immediate question is `Send me an email for every new post (unless I mute the topic or category)` what does this setting do? How is it different from `watch`? Which categories is it applied to?
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [18 Marzo, 2016 04:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/send-me-an-email-for-every-new-post-and-tracking/41216/6 "2016-03-18T04:04:28Z")
> [@sudhirkhanger](#):
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> what does this setting do?
Not to be rude, but it does exactly what it says it does. Unless you are on the site (see the user preference directly below this one), you will receive an email for each and every new post or topic unless the topic itself, or the category the topic is created in is muted.
> [@sudhirkhanger](#):
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> How is it different from watch?
It is applied to everything on the site, until you explicitly mute something. Watch is applied on a topic or category level, and is more controllable.
> [@sudhirkhanger](#):
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> Which categories is it applied to?
All categories, unless you mute the category.
From your first post:
> [@sudhirkhanger](#):
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> Earlier I had enabled Tracking for a particular category. I wasn’t receiving new topic or post emails.
Tracking will not send emails, as it does not create notifications. Assuming default user preferences, you will only receive emails if you receive a notification regarding the topic, which is only generated if you are @mentioned, quoted, replied to, or watching the topic.
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### Author:  [@sudhirkhanger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sudhirkhanger)
#### Post date: [18 Marzo, 2016 05:28 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/send-me-an-email-for-every-new-post-and-tracking/41216/7 "2016-03-18T05:28:13Z")
> [@jomaxro](#):
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> Not to be rude, but it does exactly what it says it does. Unless you are on the site (see the user preference directly below this one), you will receive an email for each and every new post or topic unless the topic itself, or the category the topic is created in is muted.
The scope wasn’t clear. Thanks for clarification.
If I have `Send me an email for every new post` enabled and I change notification settings in a category topic to `normal` which will get precedence the former or the later. If former gets the precedence then `watch`, `track`, and `normal` should be grayed out because only `mute` can override `Send me an email for every new post`.
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [18 Marzo, 2016 05:34 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/send-me-an-email-for-every-new-post-and-tracking/41216/8 "2016-03-18T05:34:16Z")
> [@sudhirkhanger](#):
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> Si tengo activada la opción «Enviarme un correo por cada nueva publicación» y cambio la configuración de notificaciones en un tema de categoría a «normal», ¿cuál tendrá prioridad: la anterior o la posterior?
La anterior. A menos que silencies el tema o la categoría (o estés en el sitio), recibirás un correo electrónico.
> [@sudhirkhanger](#):
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> Si la anterior tiene prioridad, entonces las opciones «observar», «seguir» y «normal» deberían estar deshabilitadas, ya que solo «silenciar» puede anular «Enviarme un correo por cada nueva publicación».
Eso sería una solicitud de experiencia de usuario (UX). Si deseas que esto se implemente, te sugiero crear un nuevo tema en la categoría #Contribute > UX con todos los detalles.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [18 Marzo, 2016 05:39 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/send-me-an-email-for-every-new-post-and-tracking/41216/9 "2016-03-18T05:39:44Z")
If you have that enabled, you have gone nuclear, this means **every single post that occurs on the site** , now and forevermore, will be emailed to you. It is really not recommended.
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### Author:  [@sudhirkhanger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sudhirkhanger)
#### Post date: [18 Marzo, 2016 06:25 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/send-me-an-email-for-every-new-post-and-tracking/41216/10 "2016-03-18T06:25:59Z")
> [@jomaxro](#):
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> Eso sería una solicitud de UX, así que si quieres que eso suceda, te sugiero crear un nuevo tema en la categoría #Contribute > UX con todos los detalles.
Gracias. Quería asegurarme de que mis argumentos tuvieran alguna lógica.
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> Si tienes eso habilitado, has ido a lo nuclear; esto significa que cada único mensaje que se publique en el sitio, ahora y para siempre, te será enviado por correo electrónico. Realmente no se recomienda.
Puedo ver por qué no se recomienda.
En mi caso de uso, es una pequeña comunidad de personas que trabajan en un conjunto de problemas de programación. Por eso quería participar al máximo. Quiero ver cómo lo están haciendo los demás, leer su código y ayudarles una vez que haya completado mi propio trabajo. Así que no hay mucho ruido.
Estoy acostumbrado a los foros de la vieja escuela donde puedes obtener un feed RSS de todos los nuevos temas, que luego puedes visitar y suscribirte si quieres participar más. También estoy acostumbrado a las listas de correo GNU Mailman, donde básicamente recibes todo. No puedo recibir notificaciones de nuevos temas ni usar Discourse como lista de correo. No hay forma de recibir notificaciones de nuevos temas en categorías en particular. He leído que Discourse puede usarse como reemplazo de listas de correo, pero ni mi cliente de escritorio KDE KMail ni el cliente web Zoho Mail son capaces de agrupar los correos electrónicos como las listas de correo de GNU Mailman. No estoy seguro si es un problema de mi parte o si Discourse no admite el agrupamiento de correos electrónicos.
Dicho todo esto, cuanto más uso Discourse, pienso que la mejor manera para mí sería visitarlo varias veces al día y encontrar todos los nuevos mensajes en la pestaña Nuevo de la barra superior. Y desde ahí puedo `seguir` temas individuales. También he configurado `Considerar temas nuevos cuando - No los he visto aún` y `Nunca - rastrear automáticamente los temas que ingreso`. Todas las categorías en mi instancia de Discourse están configuradas como `Normal`. Así que recibiré notificaciones de temas que no estoy siguiendo. Eso me da un buen nivel de control.
Gracias.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [18 Marzo, 2016 06:29 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/send-me-an-email-for-every-new-post-and-tracking/41216/11 "2016-03-18T06:29:59Z")
> [@sudhirkhanger](#):
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> I am also used to GNU Mailman mailing lists where you basically get everything
You _will_ get everything if you turn on mailing list mode, which is the option you described. So you should be set. If you want the site to work like a 1996 era mailing list, you have found the option to do that – you will be emailed every single time anyone posts anything on the site **INCLUDING A NEW TOPIC** with that enabled. That’s why I called it “nuclear mode”.
Remember, a brand new topic is simply a “first reply”. So it’s the same as any other reply from the perspective of that code, from reply 1, to reply 100.
As for email threading, Discourse provides all the necessary email headers to attach all replies to the topic, e.g. each topic has a unique string – the URL – that’s included in the email headers for every reply to that topic and the first post in that topic. You can view source on the email to browse the headers and see them yourself.
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### Author:  [@ronnysetiawan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ronnysetiawan)
#### Post date: [4 Octubre, 2018 10:30 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/send-me-an-email-for-every-new-post-and-tracking/41216/12 "2018-10-04T10:30:56Z")
Hi.. I want to ask about setting global, to create a notification for new topic / post to all moderators for all categories.
how to configure it?
thanks
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [4 Octubre, 2018 11:39 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/send-me-an-email-for-every-new-post-and-tracking/41216/13 "2018-10-04T11:39:01Z")
I’m not aware of such a setting. You can just have them watch all categories. If you search here you can find links to plugins that could enforce that with a bit of programing.