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Each subscription has its own frequency:
| Frequency | What you get |
|---|---|
| Right away | An email within a few minutes. Matches that happen close together (within about five minutes) arrive in one email. |
| Hourly digest | At most one email per hour, grouped by repository. |
| Daily digest | One email a day, at your digest hour, grouped by repository. |
Your time zone and digest hour are in Settings. Daily digests are sent during that hour, in your time zone.
Nothing matched? No email: we never send empty digests.
For each matching issue: its repository, title, labels, why it matched (new issue or label added), and whether it's already assigned. Every email links to your dashboard.
Your primary GitHub email is added when you sign up, and can be used right away.
You can add other addresses in Settings, for example a work address. Each new address gets a confirmation email, and nothing else is sent to it until you click the link. The link is valid for 24 hours; you can resend it from Settings.
For now, the dashboard sends every subscription to your first active address. To send a subscription to another address, use the API: each subscription accepts a list of addresses, each with its own frequency.
An address can show as:
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Active | Emails are sent to it |
| Waiting for confirmation | The confirmation link hasn't been clicked yet |
| Disabled | Emails bounced, or you unsubscribed. Remove it and add it again to start over. |
Every notification email gives you two ways out:
Opening one of these links only shows what will stop; you confirm with a button. Email apps that offer a built-in Unsubscribe button (Gmail, Apple Mail, …) unsubscribe from all notifications to that address in one click.
To pause instead, pause the subscription.
Two optional emails, off by default. Turn them on in Settings under Motivation emails:
| When | |
|---|---|
| Streak reminders | Your streak needs a contribution: Friday evening for weekly streaks, every evening for daily ones (your time zone). See Streaks. |
| Goal achieved | You reach a goal. |
They go to your first active email address. Each one has a Stop link and supports your email app's Unsubscribe button, which turn that email off in your settings.