I have a user who is trying to remove himself from all mailings from my Discourse server. He’s technical and has seemingly done everything right, as you can see in this screenshot of his Emails preferences: [image] Plus, I have, as an admin, toggled the relevant settings on and off again, just to…

[image] adamengst: Sent and verify that he’s being sent a message every day, via the mailing_list type. Does he have mailing list mode turned on?

[image] itsbhanusharma: This doesn’t look like the default discourse generated summary so maybe try disabling that plugin first to see if that helps? Ah! Good to know that it’s the plugin message rather than the native one. (Since I read everything on the Web, I don’t really focus on the emai…

Discourse handles summary emails pretty well so you probably don’t need a 3rd party plugin but I’d leave that to you if you want to solve the problem or continue defending a buggy plugin :wink:

Remembering the issue now—the plugin restores Discourse’s previous behavior for providing a digest of all messages for users in mailing list mode. Since I was moving from a traditional mailing list with roughly half our users in Mailman’s digest mode, I wanted to replicate that option. …

The first suggestion would be to disable the plugin from the app.yml and rebuild to see if the emails stop. If he gets these emails daily it will only take 24 hours to get an answer either way.

To close the loop on this problem, just disabling the plugin didn’t work, disabling and rebuilding didn’t work, and the only thing that finally made a difference was deleting it entirely and rebuilding. And now I have people wondering where their full-text digest of all messages has gone, but they’…

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itsbhanusharma (Bhanu Sharma) May 17, 2019, 8:15pm 2

This doesn’t look like the default discourse generated summary so maybe try disabling that plugin first to see if that helps?

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User receiving unwanted email from third party plugin

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