Im having trouble with emails recently. Before I was posting and only when i did @ trust level then they would get email notifications. Lately (within this month or last) somethings gone insane where when i post in categories everyone gets emailed. Im not sure if it has to do with the follow plugin …

It will be tricky to say how to specifically turn of notifications without knowing exactly what kind of emails are being sent. Are your users using mailing list mode? Or do they have tracking set up for some really active categories? I’ve seen these 2 reasons to be the case for large emails being se…

Thanks. They werent using mailing mode but guess some had categories watched. I still dont think effected everything tho. I just turned off the default to now. I went from 40-50k emails a month to nearly 120k in half a month. What I noticed were my posts, almost every post was being blasted to every…

Mailing list mode is VERY VERY dangerous. It can generate hundreds of thousands of emails in a very short period of time (depending on your userbase). I’m not even sure why we added it to Discourse in the first place, to be honest. I thought we had this auto-disabled behind a site setting @sam ? If …

Our default for disable_mailing_list_mode is false. config/site_settings.yml 54cf3c676 disable_mailing_list_mode: default: false client: true We can change it to true if we want but I recommend wa…

This fell off my plate. Mailing list mode is now default disabled in site settings (beta 2.7.0.beta5 should be coming out shortly). Admins will need to turn it on if they want users to be able to enable mailing list mode.

How to make sure all emails are off unless used for activation or password reset

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) August 24, 2020, 11:59pm 6

Ok @jomaxro can you make sure that happens before the next beta? This setting is just way too dangerous to leave available to users by default.

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How to make sure all emails are off unless used for activation or password reset

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