diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b5537c63..1a1d7338 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ The **patch** part changes incrementally at each release.
 * evolinux-base: Fix our zsyslog rotate config that doesn't work on Debian 10
 * certbot: Properly evaluate when apache is installed
 * evolinux-base: Don't make alert5.service executable as systemd will complain
+* webapps/evoadmin-web: Set default evoadmin_mail_tpl_force to True to fix a regression where the mail template would not get updated because the file is created before the role is first run.
 
 ### Security
 
diff --git a/webapps/evoadmin-web/defaults/main.yml b/webapps/evoadmin-web/defaults/main.yml
index af341a53..2d174718 100644
--- a/webapps/evoadmin-web/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/webapps/evoadmin-web/defaults/main.yml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ evoadmin_force_vhost: False
 evoadmin_config_local_php_force: False
 evoadmin_sudoers_conf_force: False
 evoadmin_add_conf_force: False
-evoadmin_mail_tpl_force: False
+evoadmin_mail_tpl_force: True
 evoadmin_htpasswd_force: False
 evoadmin_htpasswd: False