In a self-hosted Discourse instance running version 3.3.0.beta1, mirkomen77 reports that the admin user is not receiving notification emails when new posts are made, despite other users receiving them. Email and tracking settings appear correctly configured, and mirkomen77 notes that enabling mailing list mode does trigger emails, but expects them to work without it. Moin suggests checking the notification level of individual topics, as existing topics may not inherit default “watching” preferences set later. JammyDodger recommends reviewing logs at /admin/email/sent and /admin/email/skipped for clues. After further testing, mirkomen77 confirms receiving at least one notification email, but questions whether the Notification Schedule now affects email delivery. Separately, microhit reports a similar issue: a user receives system emails (e.g., password reset) but not reply notifications, despite having personal email settings enabled — suggesting a possible misconfiguration in admin-level settings affecting specific notification types. The thread highlights potential gaps in admin notification behavior, topic-level inheritance of preferences, and possible changes in how Notification Schedule interacts with email delivery.
However, no emails are sent to the admin user, are there any other settings I need to check?
The only way to get emails is to enable the mailing list mode, but I assume it should work anyway with the mailing list disabled, or am I mistaken? Other users are getting the user_posted email, just not the admin.
