I would like it so users would have a checkbox in preferences screen to “Received own posts too by e-mail”. So if it was checked, when I post some message, I would also receive a copy of my own message by e-mail.
Currently, when I watch some thread, I only receive e-mails for what everybody else was saying, but my own posts are skipped, so by looking at archived e-mail conversation it is losing significant amount of context.
Note that e-mail is being used as much more than just “transient ephemeral instant notification that something happened” (where it would indeed be useless to notify you that you have just posted), but for much more like:
full archiving of interesting threads (e.g. safeguarding for cases if instance disappears)
selective archiving (e.g. you can remove 95% of uninteresting posts in a thread from your archive after you receive them by e-mail and keep only ones important to you)
offline use
local AI training (and other data retrieval / analyzing techniques)
I think this is already possible when you enable mailing list mode. Then you can choose to receive an email for all posts, or all posts but not your own.
Yes, but enabling mailing list mode (if I understand correctly that warning also seen in your screenshot) completely shuts down almost all Discourse functionality (which threads you find interesting, watched tags, 1st post watching etc).
In other words, it is mostly only useful if one never uses web interface (!!), and prefers to use Discourse as headless mailing lists of the past sending all messages in all threads to you.
Which is not my use case; I would like to keep using Discourse as web forum, watching only some threads (and receiving email only for them), but also have e-mails that I already receive of watched conversations also include my posts (so the saved e-mail threads are actually readable).
As I’m only interested in like 1% of the threads that I watch; I definitely do not want to receive 99% of the other uninteresting threads just so I would receive 0.1% of my own posts too (which enabling mailing list mode would do, if I understand correctly?)
