# "translation missing" being delivered via email

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/translation-missing-being-delivered-via-email/60667>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [April 9, 2017, 5:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/translation-missing-being-delivered-via-email/60667 "2017-04-09T05:50:11Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 6, 2017, 8:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/translation-missing-being-delivered-via-email/60667/11 "2017-05-06T20:05:44Z")

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I suspect the issue you’re having is because you’ve changed the variables in the translation strings. For example, for the subject template, the English translation is

```plaintext
[%{email_prefix}] Summary for %{date}

```

Therefore in any translation you can only use the `email_prefix` and `date` variables. I believe you must actually use both of them for it to work.

In your subject\_template, you’ve put `site_name`, which won’t work.

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