# How to disable community DM emails to reduce costs

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic/408486
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** email
**Created:** [July 25, 2026, 12:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic/408486 "2026-07-25T00:28:28Z")
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### Author: ![cshll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/858c86/32.png) [@cshll](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cshll)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2026, 12:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic/408486/1 "2026-07-25T00:28:28Z")

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Every user in the community receives an email whenever they get a private message, which significantly increases the cost of my mail server. I want to disable all private message emails for users, keeping only emails for summaries, registration, login, etc.

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