want whenever you have the time nobody should expect that you'd reply immediately to their emails there are other means of of communication that are more appropriate if something is really really urgent emails are asynchronous and it's more efficient to deal with them in batches the only notification that you want to say is the one that tells you that you broke the build and please never be one of these guys that they type an email and they want to tell you just to make sure that you received an email this is