Hello everyone, I recently deployed Discourse on my own server, and while everything is generally running smoothly, I’ve encountered a significant issue. My Discourse instance is sending out an excessive number of email notifications to users, informing them of new content updates. As a result, som…

You can change “max emails per day per user” By default users get notifications only for topics that they are watching. Have you or they done something to watch a category that gets loud) lots of new posts? Are users watching some category that is getting many posts?

Another recent and similar experience here: [image] More then 3 million enqueued jobs show in sidekiq? How to I stop it generate the queue? Support One thing I noticed is that the sidekiq queue issue started right after I upgraded to 3.4.0.beta4-dev, the …

no, even I am just a freshman in the bbs. I received many many emails.

Could you tell me how to set this metric?

Search the system settings for that setting.

How are your categories notification set? If all categories are set to “Watching” then it will email in each topic creation and reply. Watch first post - only sends email on topic creation. Tracked - just keeps notification on site counts without email being sent When I first set up my server I…

could you tell me how can I set this categories notification?

If you haven’t changed defaults in Site Settings\User Preferences then this is not likely an issue that caused your mass emailing <a class="lightbox" href="https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/b/6/3/b6324ba57031c33f1615fb78bd54ff61ebf93e71.jpeg" data-download-href="/uploads/short-url/pZMEKlDQkCsV5ztdFXKhtlcrNDP.jpeg?dl=1" title="The image shows a settings interface with options for selecting default topics that automatically unpin, categories that are watched, muted, or still get watched for the first post, as well as default categories that are not muted and a reset button for each category. (Captioned by AI)">[The image shows a settings interface with options for selecting default topics that automatically unpin, categories that are watched, muted, or still get watched for t…

Were these messages about posts or chats?

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merefield (Robert) January 16, 2025, 10:45am 3

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Help Needed: Discourse Sending Excessive Email Notifications

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