diff --git a/ghost/admin/app/components/gh-publishmenu-draft.js b/ghost/admin/app/components/gh-publishmenu-draft.js
index dcc1873d7f..33cd55f278 100644
--- a/ghost/admin/app/components/gh-publishmenu-draft.js
+++ b/ghost/admin/app/components/gh-publishmenu-draft.js
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import Component from '@ember/component';
 import moment from 'moment';
+import {computed} from '@ember/object';
 import {isEmpty} from '@ember/utils';
 import {inject as service} from '@ember/service';
 
@@ -15,6 +16,8 @@ export default Component.extend({
 
     'data-test-publishmenu-draft': true,
 
+    disableEmailOption: computed.equal('memberCount', 0),
+
     didInsertElement() {
         this.post.set('publishedAtBlogTZ', this.get('post.publishedAtUTC'));
         this.send('setSaveType', 'publish');
diff --git a/ghost/admin/app/templates/components/gh-publishmenu-draft.hbs b/ghost/admin/app/templates/components/gh-publishmenu-draft.hbs
index c891bee5d4..cab00eb7a2 100644
--- a/ghost/admin/app/templates/components/gh-publishmenu-draft.hbs
+++ b/ghost/admin/app/templates/components/gh-publishmenu-draft.hbs
@@ -32,13 +32,17 @@
                 {{#unless this.deliveredAction}}
                     <div class="for-checkbox">
                         <label class="checkbox" for="email-when-published-checkbox">
-                            <Input @checked={{this.sendEmailWhenPublished}} @type="checkbox" @id="email-when-published-checkbox" @name="email-when-published" />
+                            <Input @checked={{this.sendEmailWhenPublished}} @type="checkbox" @id="email-when-published-checkbox" @name="email-when-published" @disabled={{disableEmailOption}} />
                             <span class="input-toggle-component gh-publishmenu-email-checkbox"></span>
                         </label>
                     </div>
                     <div class="gh-publishmenu-email-label">
                         <div class="gh-publishmenu-radio-label">Email post</div>
-                        <div class="gh-publishmenu-radio-desc">Send post to {{this.memberCount}} members when published</div>
+                        {{#if this.memberCount}}
+                            <div class="gh-publishmenu-radio-desc">Send post to {{this.memberCount}} members when published</div>
+                        {{else}}
+                            <div class="gh-publishmenu-radio-desc">You have 0 members</div>
+                        {{/if}}
                     </div>
                 {{/unless}}
             {{/if}}