# Disable email notifications for own posts
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-email-notifications-for-own-posts/28769
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** notifications, email
**Created:** [May 13, 2015, 3:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-email-notifications-for-own-posts/28769 "2015-05-13T15:38:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 18
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### Author:  [@dictoon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dictoon)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2015, 3:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-email-notifications-for-own-posts/28769/1 "2015-05-13T15:38:17Z")
Hi all,
I’ve enabled email notifications (“Send me an email for every new post”) in my profile. Unfortunately, I now receive notifications for my own posts and replies.
Technically it makes sense, but it’s slightly annoying. I’m aware that it’s by design: [Getting email notifications for my own posts](https://meta.discourse.org/t/getting-email-notifications-for-my-own-posts/12922)
I think it would be nice to have some kind of “Notify me of all new posts” option to user profiles. As the admin of a low traffic forum, I’d like to be notified of all and every posts/replies without getting an email for my own.
Does it make sense?
Franz
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2015, 3:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-email-notifications-for-own-posts/28769/2 "2015-05-13T15:41:44Z")
I think what you want is WATCHING. Look for it in your prefs.
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### Author:  [@dictoon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dictoon)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2015, 4:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-email-notifications-for-own-posts/28769/3 "2015-05-13T16:02:23Z")
Ah, I had missed that option somehow. Thanks for tip.
Franz
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### Author:  [@dictoon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dictoon)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2015, 11:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-email-notifications-for-own-posts/28769/4 "2015-05-21T11:38:52Z")
@tobiaseigen I tried your suggestion of using the Watching list, however it’s still not what I want, since I no longer get notified of new posts in existing topics.
Here are my current profile settings:
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### Author:  [@dictoon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dictoon)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2015, 12:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-email-notifications-for-own-posts/28769/5 "2015-05-21T12:29:40Z")
Hold on, I seem to be getting notifications again. I don’t think I’ve changed anything, so maybe I just missed earlier notifications…
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2015, 1:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-email-notifications-for-own-posts/28769/6 "2015-05-21T13:31:57Z")
you are aware that you don’t get emailed by discourse if you’re active on the site?
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### Author:  [@dictoon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dictoon)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2015, 1:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-email-notifications-for-own-posts/28769/7 "2015-05-21T13:42:56Z")
I did check “Do no suppress email notifications when I am active on the site” (as per the screenshot above), so I should get them anyway…
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### Author:  [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2015, 12:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-email-notifications-for-own-posts/28769/8 "2015-05-22T00:07:24Z")
I believe this goes something like this:
1. Where historically topics have been created in Category “Amazeballs” and replies made to these topics.
2. Reading posts in a topic for a (site setting based) amount of time (usually 4 minutes) will change your current “notification options” for that topic from “Regular” to “Tracking”.
- The current topic “notification options” can be seen at the bottom of any topic: 
1. Now adding the “Amazeballs” category the User Settings to “Watching” will:
- make **all new topics created from this point forward** in the “Amazeballs” category **initially start** with the “Watching” “notification options” state rather than the “Regular” state.
1. Topics created before the “Amazeballs” category was added to the User Setting “Watching” will:
- continue to maintain their already defined “notification options” state.
1. If you wish to start receiving notifications for a topic change the “notification options” to “Watching”:
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1. Even though you as a user have your settings for the “Amazeballs” category set to “Watching”; this only controls the initial “notification options” state for the newly created topics; so:
- A user always has the choice to change an individual topic to any “notification state” so they don’t receive notifications regardless of the category “Amazeballs” being added to “Watching” in user settings.
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### Author:  [@dictoon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dictoon)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2015, 8:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-email-notifications-for-own-posts/28769/9 "2015-05-22T08:46:06Z")
Hi @DeanMarkTaylor, thanks for chiming in!
Honestly, I find all this needlessly complicated. Maybe I’m not representative of most users, but my needs are pretty simple. I want to be able to enable email notifications:
( ) Every time someone mentions me (in any topic), replies to my post (in any topic), or post in a topic I created (optionally: unless I’m currently active on the site).
( ) For every _foreign_ post (optionally: even my own posts).
I understand that you need to cater to a wide audience with varied needs, but maybe this area could use some compromising for the sake of simplification…
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2016, 2:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-email-notifications-for-own-posts/28769/10 "2016-04-16T02:51:56Z")
I do think this has come up enough that we should offer it as a user pref.
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### Author:  [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2016, 3:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-email-notifications-for-own-posts/28769/11 "2016-04-16T03:38:06Z")
Doing so will keep the email list migrants happier.
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-up-reply-via-email-support/14003/22?u=downey](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-up-reply-via-email-support/14003/22)
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2019, 2:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-email-notifications-for-own-posts/28769/12 "2019-01-07T02:58:25Z")
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2019, 3:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-email-notifications-for-own-posts/28769/13 "2019-01-07T03:17:14Z")
I’m actually surprised nobody bumped this in nearly 3 years.
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### Author:  [@dictoon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dictoon)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2019, 8:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-email-notifications-for-own-posts/28769/14 "2019-01-09T08:51:03Z")
FWIW I’m still looking forward to such an option: I no longer get notifications for my own posts but I also no longer get _any_ mail notification, so I’m regularly missing posts.
I guess I’m not in the target demographic, our forum is a small, low traffic one, and I read (and when I can and see them in time, answer) all posts.
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### Author:  [@dictoon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dictoon)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2019, 9:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-email-notifications-for-own-posts/28769/15 "2019-01-10T09:28:52Z")
To be honest, my confusion about Discourse continues to deepens 🙂 I don’t see anything regarding email notifications anymore in my profile:
I’ve also just been told by other members that email notifications have stopped for them a few months ago…
Should I create a new topic?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2019, 4:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-email-notifications-for-own-posts/28769/16 "2019-01-11T04:03:56Z")
🤔
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### Author:  [@dictoon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dictoon)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2019, 10:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-email-notifications-for-own-posts/28769/17 "2019-01-11T10:02:44Z")
I have no words 🤦♂️
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### Author:  [@Flominator](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Flominator)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2021, 6:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-email-notifications-for-own-posts/28769/18 "2021-11-02T06:13:07Z")
> [@Getting email notifications for my own posts](https://meta.discourse.org/t/getting-email-notifications-for-my-own-posts/12922/2):
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> That’s the mailing-list mode. Some people like to have a full local archive of all the messages, and that’s their choice.
@dictoon: you’re on mailing list mode, right?