I disable the preview digest, but today I received an email saying someone commented on a topic. For now, I don’t want users to receive any email for now, other than the invitation email. How to disable?

[image] jenni_alencar: I don’t want users to receive any email for now, other than the invitation email. There is no guaranteed way to do this. We have the disable emails site setting, but that will disable all emails, invite included.

It will also block them from recovering their accounts if they ever need to reset a password. Email is central to Discourse, it’s not really practical to use it without working email.

My problem is, I put an invite HTML in the email style, this way, the same invite template is applicated for all the emails. Therefore, doesn’t make sense other emails with this template, but the invite mail.

What this option does? Custom email template and css are applied to summary emails.

Maybe have a look at https://yoursite/admin/site_settings/category/user_preferences?filter=notification and adjust these: [image] Also, maybe Optional global invite code will help you. But users still need to be able to receive verification and password reset emails, unless you use something like…

[image] jenni_alencar: For now, I don’t want users to receive any email for now, other than the invitation email. How to disable? There are two user preferences that control what emails get sent to a user. The settings are found in the Emails section of the user’s preferences page: [image] …

How to disable all the emails sending by discourse?

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jomaxro (Joshua Rosenfeld) March 19, 2020, 9:51pm 2

There is no guaranteed way to do this. We have the disable emails site setting, but that will disable all emails, invite included.

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How to disable all the emails sending by discourse?

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