Disabling emails for a few hours without Sidekiq queueing them

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Hello,

We’d like to perform some maintenance on our mail server and would like to disable Discourse from sending emails for a period of time.

I know that I can do this by changing the SMTP settings, but Sidekiq will then queue failed emails and send them later, which could cause a lot of load and even bombard some user’s mailboxes.

Is there a way to disable emails for all users temporarily, then re-enable / restore their preferences later?

Thanks

Sam

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Yes simply use the disable emails option in your site settings.

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Thanks – not sure how I missed that.

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