# Summary emails are not honouring the 5 min editing grace period

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/summary-emails-are-not-honouring-the-5-min-editing-grace-period/67503>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [August 5, 2017, 9:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/summary-emails-are-not-honouring-the-5-min-editing-grace-period/67503 "2017-08-05T09:42:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![tophee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tophee/32/73406_2.png) [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2017, 9:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/summary-emails-are-not-honouring-the-5-min-editing-grace-period/67503/1 "2017-08-05T09:42:46Z")

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It is my understanding that email notifications for new posts are delayed by 5 minutes (or whatever your grace editing period is set to) and I think this is an excellent feature which illustrates the attention to detail in the developer team (and community) 👍

However, it looks like summary emails are not following this logic. When I just created a new topic, one of my test users received a summary email within 1-2 minutes and that email had my new post as its first (in fact: only) “Popular topic”.

I’m inclined to call this a bug, but maybe I’m taking the grace period feature too seriously? In any case, I think it would make sense to have summary emails ignore topics that are less than `editing grace period` seconds old.

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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:** [August 11, 2017, 5:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/summary-emails-are-not-honouring-the-5-min-editing-grace-period/67503/2 "2017-08-11T17:11:36Z")

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@neil probably worth adding this to your list.

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**Author:** ![neil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/neil/32/102150_2.png) [@neil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neil)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 5:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/summary-emails-are-not-honouring-the-5-min-editing-grace-period/67503/3 "2017-08-11T17:40:20Z")

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Agreed it should be respecting the grace period before including in digest emails.

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**Author:** ![neil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/neil/32/102150_2.png) [@neil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neil)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2017, 5:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/summary-emails-are-not-honouring-the-5-min-editing-grace-period/67503/4 "2017-08-14T17:47:45Z")

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I added logic today to exclude posts that are still in the editing grace period.

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**Author:** ![neil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/neil/32/102150_2.png) [@neil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neil)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2017, 6:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/summary-emails-are-not-honouring-the-5-min-editing-grace-period/67503/5 "2017-08-14T18:26:15Z")

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