sam
May 12, 2022, 11:52pm
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Yeah we talked about “echo mode” in the past but never built a toggle for it. It’s about 2-3 days of work to get this working properly, we would need a new site setting, a new user setting, a bit of UI to pick it and so on.
Not sure we should prioritize this work at the moment.
Previous related discussions:
Currently users receive notifications of all posts in a topic, including their own. This emulates traditional mailing list behaviour, but many users are familiar with some mail client’s behaviour that “hides” these emails automatically.
Perhaps there could be an option (off by default) to include the user’s own posts in notifications (on would notify them of their post, off would skip it)?
We’ve recently set up Discourse, and I’ve found that every time I reply to a new topic, I will receive an email containing my reply. This seems similar to Getting notification when you reply to a topic , though this topic does not discuss email notifications.
I feel like this is a bug as I know what I’ve just posted; I shouldn’t have to receive an email confirmation.
While the category email-in support is maturing, are there plans for a feature where the user would get a reply from discourse when they email to a category incoming email address?
this would make it possible for the user to add extra information to the private thread, since they now have an address they can reply to, and it would give some sense of “this email didn’t go into a black hole”.
I couldn’t find anything like this on the private support portal page in regard to this but this would f…
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