# Changing Username Stops Email Notifications
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-username-stops-email-notifications/69799
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [2017年九月11日 09:49 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-username-stops-email-notifications/69799 "2017-09-11T09:49:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@schungx](https://meta.discourse.org/u/schungx)
#### Post date: [2017年九月29日 06:22 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-username-stops-email-notifications/69799/21 "2017-09-29T06:22:23Z")
Definitely check the user profiles whether those categories are in the “Muted” set.
I had that happen to me last week or so. Wasn’t receiving emails from certain categories that I am certain I should, but receiving emails from others. Turns out that a few categories have been put into “Mute” for some reason.
Deleting those mutes made everything work again. I then manually scanned through my users list and found several user accounts having similar muted categories. I am pretty sure the users themselves (who are not power users) did NOT put them in.
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### Author:  [@JamesNorth](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JamesNorth)
#### Post date: [2017年九月29日 06:40 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-username-stops-email-notifications/69799/22 "2017-09-29T06:40:22Z")
Yeah that’s odd - but this is only two users that have been created recently and they’re both only watching one category with this in the muted bit for each user that has the problem.
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### Author:  [@schungx](https://meta.discourse.org/u/schungx)
#### Post date: [2017年九月29日 07:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-username-stops-email-notifications/69799/23 "2017-09-29T07:37:04Z")
Now this is _really_ odd.
In the process of trying this out, I find that in he latest version `beta11`, watch/track/mute categories can no longer be set!
The UI still works fine. Pressing `Save` still sends the correct REST PUT command with the correct list of categories. The response JSON always comes back with the original, unchanged list.
And the database is not changed.
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### Author:  [@JamesNorth](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JamesNorth)
#### Post date: [2017年九月29日 07:39 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-username-stops-email-notifications/69799/24 "2017-09-29T07:39:56Z")
If that’s the case (db not being updated) it makes sense. UI does indicate all settings are correct but actions not working.
I’ve been using this method to add users for about a year in Discourse and it’s been flawless until these two.
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### Author:  [@schungx](https://meta.discourse.org/u/schungx)
#### Post date: [2017年九月29日 08:14 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-username-stops-email-notifications/69799/25 "2017-09-29T08:14:47Z")
OK. I confirm that it is not working in Meta also. So definitely something is off.
I’m raising a bug.
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### Author:  [@JamesNorth](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JamesNorth)
#### Post date: [2017年九月30日 05:43 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-username-stops-email-notifications/69799/26 "2017-09-30T05:43:06Z")
Turns out this was being caused by the fact that **watching categories just wasn’t working properly for a while**.
> [@User profile watch/track/mute options not persisted](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-profile-watch-track-mute-options-not-persisted/71006):
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> I believe it is the latest beta that has this problem. AFAIK all user profile options can be saved and persisted, EXCEPT for: Watched Categories Tracked Categories Watching First Post Categories Muted Categories Watched Tags Tracked Tags Watching First Post Tags Muted Tags Muted Users work fine. Pressing Save Changes will send the correct REST PUT command. Came back with 200 and “Saved!” right next to the button. Thus, to the web app, the settings have been changed…
Can be closed and I won’t be _watching_ it anymore!
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [2017年九月30日 14:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-username-stops-email-notifications/69799/27 "2017-09-30T14:20:42Z")
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