# User mentioning themselves not getting an email

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-mentioning-themselves-not-getting-an-email/142288
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 21, 2020, 7:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-mentioning-themselves-not-getting-an-email/142288 "2020-02-21T19:46:56Z")
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### Author: ![maggiomj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@maggiomj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/maggiomj)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2020, 7:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-mentioning-themselves-not-getting-an-email/142288/1 "2020-02-21T19:46:56Z")

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In our discourse instance (which I am using through APIs), I have been mentioning myself, but not receiving emails (and more importantly, not seeing a row in the notifications table of type 1, which I’m relying on in some custom queries).

I’ve categorized this in support because I could see this as being expected behavior. I’m wondering, if it is expected behavior, if it is configurable. Any help would be appreciated

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### Author: ![tshenry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tshenry/32/119495_2.png) [@tshenry](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tshenry)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2020, 8:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-mentioning-themselves-not-getting-an-email/142288/2 "2020-02-21T20:51:45Z")

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> [@maggiomj](#):
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> I could see this as being expected behavior

You are correct. Discourse intentionally excludes notifying a user if they mention their own username in a post. This is not something that is configurable in core Discourse and would only be achievable through a plugin.

Might you be able to achieve what you are looking for by setting yourself a reminder using the user topic timer feature?

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### Author: ![maggiomj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@maggiomj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/maggiomj)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2020, 2:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-mentioning-themselves-not-getting-an-email/142288/3 "2020-02-26T14:53:56Z")

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Totally understand (the use case for mentioning one’s self is a definitely flimsy, but QA’s gotta QA).

I don’t plan on trying the suggested workaround (our product team agreed to solve their gripe a different way), but hopefully if others do try it they will report back.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2020, 12:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-mentioning-themselves-not-getting-an-email/142288/4 "2020-02-27T00:59:43Z")

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> [@maggiomj](#):
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> the use case for mentioning one’s self is a definitely flimsy, but QA’s gotta QA

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/7/6/76d9be2115cb106b955d36d7c12bfd81a6386597.jpeg)

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2020, 12:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-mentioning-themselves-not-getting-an-email/142288/5 "2020-03-28T00:59:45Z")

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