# Subscribe to a topic by email in a "watching first post" channel

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/subscribe-to-a-topic-by-email-in-a-watching-first-post-channel/119275>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [June 1, 2019, 1:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/subscribe-to-a-topic-by-email-in-a-watching-first-post-channel/119275 "2019-06-01T13:12:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2019, 5:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/subscribe-to-a-topic-by-email-in-a-watching-first-post-channel/119275/10 "2019-06-03T05:16:12Z")

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> [@codinghorror](#):
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> added some kind of ninja expert mode magic email reply command words but I don’t know where they are documented.

Yeah this is not documented. You can reply with the word `watch` to watch a topic and `mute` to mute a topic.

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