Is there a way to flag a user as “do not email”? (suspend sending emails to a specific user) I understand that it’s possible to adjust all a users email settings - but at some-point I would like to undo the action and revert the email settings back to the user selected values. Basically I am findi…

This is one of many advantages of using an external service like Mandrill.. They automatically pause sending to addresses that constantly bounce, and resume after retrying or give up on the email entirely if it goes bad long enough. This sort of sophisticated email bounce handling is not on our roa…

Actually this is what is happening - currently using Mandrill. Unfortunately “Hard bounces” from addresses already blocked by Mandrill appear to effect “Deliverability” and thus “Sends this hour” etc. And obviously I setup email notification for email delivery faulires - I would like to avoid rece…

We have built in bounce handling for most email services today, and user deliverability scores. So we eventually stop sending emails to users with broken email addresses.

Flag user as do not email / suspend sending emails to a specific user

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) January 4, 2015, 2:44am 4

There needs to be some kind of feedback loop here between mail server (or service) and Discourse itself but it is unclear how to accomplish that at this time.

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Flag user as do not email / suspend sending emails to a specific user

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