# Automatically watching a topic I've posted to
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatically-watching-a-topic-ive-posted-to/55779
**Category:** Meta Elastic
**Created:** [July 18, 2016, 3:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatically-watching-a-topic-ive-posted-to/55779 "2016-07-18T15:50:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@shaunak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shaunak)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2016, 3:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatically-watching-a-topic-ive-posted-to/55779/1 "2016-07-18T15:50:49Z")
Hi,
Currently, whenever I post to a topic, I get notified via email if someone else replies to my post. If a post is not in reply to my post, I don't get the email notification.
I'd like to receive email notifications for _all_ posts in a topic once I post to it. I can achieve this today by Watching each topic I've posted in. Is there a setting that would let me automatically Watch all topics I post in, without requiring me to go into each topic individually and start Watching it?
Thanks,
Shaunak
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### Author:  [@Bargs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bargs)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2016, 5:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatically-watching-a-topic-ive-posted-to/55779/2 "2016-07-18T17:31:49Z")
Looks like this is a limitation of Discourse ☹
> **[Automatically set Topics to Watching after posting](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-set-topics-to-watching-after-posting/21230)**
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> We’ve had this come up multiple times now, several of our users want topics they post/interact with to be automatically set to Watching. You can get it automatically set to Tracking, but the only way to get Watching is by Watching a category (and...
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### Author:  [@Sam\_Saffron](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sam_Saffron)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2016, 10:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatically-watching-a-topic-ive-posted-to/55779/3 "2016-07-18T22:44:06Z")
I am not against adding this as a feature, but it is not slotted yet.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/automatically-watching-a-topic-ive-posted-to/55779/4 "2017-07-06T13:46:37Z")