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 pos…

I think what you want is WATCHING. Look for it in your prefs.

Ah, I had missed that option somehow. Thanks for tip. Franz

@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: [image]

Hold on, I seem to be getting notifications again. I don’t think I’ve changed anything, so maybe I just missed earlier notifications…

you are aware that you don’t get emailed by discourse if you’re active on the site?

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…

I believe this goes something like this: Where historically topics have been created in Category “Amazeballs” and replies made to these topics. 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…

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 to…

I do think this has come up enough that we should offer it as a user pref.

Doing so will keep the email list migrants happier. https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-up-reply-via-email-support/14003/22?u=downey

Disable email notifications for own posts

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@dictoon: you’re on mailing list mode, right?

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Disable email notifications for own posts

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