# What difference does it make if a template email is published or not?

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**Created:** [July 1, 2020, 9:39pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/what-difference-does-it-make-if-a-template-email-is-published-or-not/15040 "2020-07-01T21:39:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![lalurran](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/lalurran/32/570_2.png) [@lalurran](https://forum.mautic.org/u/lalurran)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 9:39pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/what-difference-does-it-make-if-a-template-email-is-published-or-not/15040/1 "2020-07-01T21:39:57Z")

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What difference does it make if a template email is published or not? It seems like I can choose template emails that aren’t published in campaigns anyway. I thought unpublished emails wouldn’t show up there.

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**Author:** ![joeyk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/joeyk/32/11164_2.png) [@joeyk](https://forum.mautic.org/u/joeyk)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2020, 8:12pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/what-difference-does-it-make-if-a-template-email-is-published-or-not/15040/2 "2020-07-02T20:12:49Z")

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Hi,  
It will show up yes.  
But it won’t be sent out as a part of a campaign.

For example: you have a nurturing campaigns, where you offer 1 product in every email.  
However, you are out of product nr.3. So you can pull that from the campaign by disabling that template email.

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**Author:** ![lalurran](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/lalurran/32/570_2.png) [@lalurran](https://forum.mautic.org/u/lalurran)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2020, 9:30pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/what-difference-does-it-make-if-a-template-email-is-published-or-not/15040/3 "2020-07-02T21:30:46Z")

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Oh! I didn’t have a clue about that and can’t remember getting warned about it anywhere. Is it stated in the docs?

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**Author:** ![joeyk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/joeyk/32/11164_2.png) [@joeyk](https://forum.mautic.org/u/joeyk)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 3:33am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/what-difference-does-it-make-if-a-template-email-is-published-or-not/15040/4 "2020-07-03T03:33:23Z")

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I don’t know. I’m not really reading the docs.  
But I test out a lot of things 🙂

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**Author:** ![lalurran](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/lalurran/32/570_2.png) [@lalurran](https://forum.mautic.org/u/lalurran)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 7:22am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/what-difference-does-it-make-if-a-template-email-is-published-or-not/15040/5 "2020-07-03T07:22:20Z")

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I see. Thank you for taking the time to help me out!