For the most recent forum post, based purely on “watch” status there should have been c.1300 users emailed. But from the Amazon SES console and from the Discourse /admin/email-logs Sent page there were only c.700 sent. Only c.20 appear on /admin/email-logs/skipped as “Skipped”, the reason in those cases being “Exceeded bounce_score_threshold”. What other reason might there be for this discrepancy? I’ll keep an eye out for future messages to see whether this was a one off.

I’ve just had a thought. There’s a setting to stop sending emails after a certain period of not visiting the forum. I bet the missing people are beyond that point. Is there a way to check using Data Explorer?

[image] Jonathan5: There’s a setting to stop sending emails after a certain period of not visiting the forum. I think that’s just for the activity summaries? (Suppress digest email after days) Or did you have another in mind? A missing 600 seems like a lot of people to have changed their email preference to ‘never’, but may be worth a check just in case? Did you check how many had received a notification for it?

Yes that’s what I had in mind (hazily). I’ll try to find those things in the database using Data Explorer this evening.

[image] JammyDodger: A missing 600 seems like a lot of people to have changed their email preference to ‘never’, but may be worth a check just in case? About 1100 “always” and 300 “never” (nobody in between!) so we have accounted for half of them already! Thanks.

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NateDhaliwal (Nate Dhaliwal) July 4, 2025, 11:29am 2

Are there any in /admin/email/bounced?

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