So, I would say there are three possible scenarios, my preferred outcome is listed for each one:
- You have enabled the preference Send me an email for every new post (unless I mute the topic or category)
- You should always get an email, regardless of if you made a new post via email or via the web.
- You have the default out of the box message tracking and you create a post via the web.
- You should not get an email as you’re already getting visual feedback from Discourse that your post has been added to the forum.
- You have the default out of the box message tracking and you create a post via the email.
- You should optionally be able to get emailed a copy of your post. This allows users to get a feedback loop that their message has successfully posted. I can understand why you would want to turn this off on high volume forums, but without it on low volume forums, our members have to check the website (or email me if they forget how to check the website) to know that their message has been posted. We would prefer that the echo option in this scenario were enabled by default.