# "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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**Author:** ![jhnwsk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jhnwsk/32/119635_2.png) [@jhnwsk](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jhnwsk)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2017, 8:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/translation-missing-being-delivered-via-email/60667/5 "2017-04-12T20:50:36Z")

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Same thing happens to me but only if I use _%{site\_name}_ in the translation. The problem seems to be the misleading default translation. If you instead use _%{email\_prefix} Your translation_ it will work the way you want it to.

I am looking at the code for the first time, but if [this](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/2916b4566645d5cf3e09d06b9b432ccc1979e14d/app/mailers/user_notifications.rb#L171) does what I think it does that means SiteSettings.title is provided to the translation as ‘email\_prefix’ because of [customizable email branding settings](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/2916b4566645d5cf3e09d06b9b432ccc1979e14d/app/mailers/user_notifications.rb#L482).

I’m not really sure where the misleading default comes from because, in the case of my language at least, [there is no default provided](https://github.com/jhnwsk/discourse/blob/master/config/locales/server.pl_PL.yml#L1821) and the default for english uses _email\_prefix_.

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