# Getting email notifications for my own posts
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/getting-email-notifications-for-my-own-posts/12922
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [2014年二月20日 21:51 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/getting-email-notifications-for-my-own-posts/12922 "2014-02-20T21:51:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@uppfinnarn](https://meta.discourse.org/u/uppfinnarn)
#### Post date: [2014年二月20日 21:51 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/getting-email-notifications-for-my-own-posts/12922/1 "2014-02-20T21:51:51Z")
I have checked _Receive an email every time a post is made on the forum_, but I did not expect it to be literal enough to email me about my own posts.
Is this intended behavior, or a bug? I personally think it’s rather useless to have my own posts emailed back to me, but there might be a reason for this that I’m unaware of.
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [2014年二月20日 22:36 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/getting-email-notifications-for-my-own-posts/12922/2 "2014-02-20T22:36:56Z")
That’s the mailing-list mode. Some people like to have a full local archive of all the messages, and that’s their choice.
You may be looking for watching categories, which follows the normal logic of not emailing you if you’ve been on the forum in the last 10 minutes.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2014年五月1日 06:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/getting-email-notifications-for-my-own-posts/12922/3 "2014-05-01T06:00:13Z")
Yes, this is 100% intended behavior, for the record.
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [2025年十二月4日 11:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/getting-email-notifications-for-my-own-posts/12922/4 "2025-12-04T11:09:22Z")