# 'Decision' reads email: how (when) is this evaluated?

**URL:** <https://forum.mautic.org/t/decision-reads-email-how-when-is-this-evaluated/31149>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [March 4, 2024, 7:21pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/decision-reads-email-how-when-is-this-evaluated/31149 "2024-03-04T19:21:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![donbowman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/donbowman/32/5702_2.png) [@donbowman](https://forum.mautic.org/u/donbowman)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2024, 7:21pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/decision-reads-email-how-when-is-this-evaluated/31149/1 "2024-03-04T19:21:57Z")

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**Your software**  
My Mautic version is: 4.4.11  
My PHP version is: 8.2  
My Database type and version is: tidb

**Your problem**

Not so much a problem as a question.  
If i have a campaign that uses ‘reads email’ decision… If i attach that to a send-email, it appears the ‘has not read’ decision is taken immediately, and, later, when the user does read it,it then _also_ takes the ‘has read’ path.

At what point in time is this decision evaluated? How can i make it take only one path? e.g. how can i say “If after 2days they have not read, take this path, and never take the other even if they later read it on day 3”?