tons of emails - I am aaaaaaaaaaaaangry
cosmo71
Posts: 3,609
hello,
I get tons of emails from the forum just because someone has posted something to the forum, I haven`t enabled any notification and I don`t want to be notifed that someone has posted something.
so daz do something
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Disable notifications in your control panel.
It's dumb, but it's the default setting to send them.
as I have written above, I had no notification enabled.
but probably I have found "my" mistake. It was the subscription to threads, I have unsubscribed these two threads I have subscribed to (can`t remember that I have) and now let`s see what will happen.
It's the default setting. You don't enable default settings - you disable them if you don't like them. As you say you just did ;-)
You get subscribed when you post, unless you shut that off in control panel.
Yup. make sure you have found this page in your account profile, and then unclick boxes
Accept email from other members of this site
Enable email notifications by default when you post messages
Notify me via email when someone sends me a private message
Enable Smart Notification
Well, please don't untick the Accept email from site administrators option.
Yeah, sorry I should heve been more specific. In Cosmo's case he needs to just untick the
Enable email notifications by default when you post messages box, and maybe the Enable Smart Notification
box, but I am not quite certain what that one actually dooes,
As I understand it, Smart Notification sends an email for the first reply to a thread and then waits until you visit. Non-smart notification sends an email for every reply.
why do they have that option then?
(I haven't chosen it btw)
If one doesn't want to receive site email, the boxes to untick in the control panel would be:
Accept email from other members of this site
Enable email notifications by default when you post messages
Notify me via email when someone sends me a private message
The Accept email from site administrators & Enable Smart Notification, if you are subscribed to a specific thread, should remain ticked. Like Richard said, the Smart Notification would send out one email notifying of activity in a subscribed thread.