# Using Discourse as a mailing list

**URL:** <https://discourse.itk.org/t/using-discourse-as-a-mailing-list/32>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Tags:** email, discourse\
**Created:** [September 20, 2017, 9:47pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/using-discourse-as-a-mailing-list/32 "2017-09-20T21:47:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![matt.mccormick](https://discourse.itk.org/user_avatar/discourse.itk.org/matt.mccormick/32/7_2.png) [@matt.mccormick](https://discourse.itk.org/u/matt.mccormick)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2017, 9:47pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/using-discourse-as-a-mailing-list/32/1 "2017-09-20T21:47:24Z")

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1. Click your user icon, then your user name:  
 ![5b13aca014875751644e3027d7348b1811e4fe4b](https://discourse.itk.org/uploads/default/original/1X/ce94fc17738dbdf3f9e0c2c42b06e6a6262f4b19.png)

2. Click “Preferences”:  
 ![943cb036b7068e72c189529ef06614564254101c_1_690x64](https://discourse.itk.org/uploads/default/original/1X/c23361958acb488391466ed8a6f9dc8d339cf365.png)

3. Click “Emails”:  
 ![ce606b75b8b11fc250f6c23c2b2cd04622b08a5b](https://discourse.itk.org/uploads/default/original/1X/ce606b75b8b11fc250f6c23c2b2cd04622b08a5b.png)

4. Click “Enable mailing list mode”, and select the frequency of emails:  
 ![c126ccee51ea306a5d6096c794a8a22a685f2956](https://discourse.itk.org/uploads/default/original/1X/c126ccee51ea306a5d6096c794a8a22a685f2956.png)

5. By default, you will be subscribed to posts in **all categories**. To disable notifications for a category, visit the category page:  
 ![66d5abd1ba4293ffbe7f21746d041559d5ca988b](https://discourse.itk.org/uploads/default/original/1X/66d5abd1ba4293ffbe7f21746d041559d5ca988b.png)  
  
and select the “Muted” option in the notification preference menu:  
  
 ![2794a765375b45611c313a784553080cd7e6731e](https://discourse.itk.org/uploads/default/original/1X/2794a765375b45611c313a784553080cd7e6731e.png)

6. To respond via email, simply click “Reply” in your mail client, and reply as indicated in the email footer.

7. To post a new topic via email, use the following addresses:

- [itk+beginner@discourse.itk.org](mailto:itk+beginner@discourse.itk.org)
- [itk+algorithms@discourse.itk.org](mailto:itk+algorithms@discourse.itk.org)
- [itk+community@discourse.itk.org](mailto:itk+community@discourse.itk.org)
- [itk+engineering@discourse.itk.org](mailto:itk+engineering@discourse.itk.org)
- [itk+announcements@discourse.itk.org](mailto:itk+announcements@discourse.itk.org)

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**Author:** ![matt.mccormick](https://discourse.itk.org/user_avatar/discourse.itk.org/matt.mccormick/32/7_2.png) [@matt.mccormick](https://discourse.itk.org/u/matt.mccormick)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2017, 9:57pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/using-discourse-as-a-mailing-list/32/2 "2017-09-20T21:57:20Z")

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**Author:** ![matt.mccormick](https://discourse.itk.org/user_avatar/discourse.itk.org/matt.mccormick/32/7_2.png) [@matt.mccormick](https://discourse.itk.org/u/matt.mccormick)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2017, 10:01pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/using-discourse-as-a-mailing-list/32/3 "2017-09-20T22:01:48Z")

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**Author:** ![matt.mccormick](https://discourse.itk.org/user_avatar/discourse.itk.org/matt.mccormick/32/7_2.png) [@matt.mccormick](https://discourse.itk.org/u/matt.mccormick)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2017, 10:02pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/using-discourse-as-a-mailing-list/32/4 "2017-09-20T22:02:01Z")

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**Author:** ![seanm](https://discourse.itk.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@seanm](https://discourse.itk.org/u/seanm)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 9:51pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/using-discourse-as-a-mailing-list/32/5 "2017-09-25T21:51:27Z")

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Can it be configured to not send HTML emails?

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**Author:** ![fbudin](https://discourse.itk.org/user_avatar/discourse.itk.org/fbudin/32/14_2.png) [@fbudin](https://discourse.itk.org/u/fbudin)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 6:53pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/using-discourse-as-a-mailing-list/32/6 "2017-09-26T18:53:10Z")

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I do not think that it is possible to change that setting on a user basis.