# Less Frequent Email Options for Less-active accounts

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/less-frequent-email-options-for-less-active-accounts/27659
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [2015 年4 月 16 日 17:17 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/less-frequent-email-options-for-less-active-accounts/27659 "2015-04-16T17:17:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![BCHK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/bchk/32/3268_2.png) [@BCHK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BCHK)
#### Post date: [2016 年6 月 7 日 16:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/less-frequent-email-options-for-less-active-accounts/27659/22 "2016-06-07T16:37:06Z")

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> [@sebastianh](#):
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> but what is the alternative?

Probably some sort of account / email aging system that decreases email frequency based on the clicks received on them and frequency of email logins.

Personally - I’d also love to have a backup plugin of SMS contact to users using Twilio or something similar so we have a more efficient means of pulling people back to the forums.

> [@Twilio - for SMS notifications to users - Anyone Else Interested?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/twilio-for-sms-notifications-to-users-anyone-else-interested/44132):
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> Continuing the discussion from [Plugin to send 'private' SMS or Instant Messages from Categories](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-to-send-private-sms-or-instant-messages-from-categories/42621/5): Has anyone tried this yet? I’m really interested in this as a way to improve user engagement in our forums. I am very concerned about the fact that the vast majority of our users are on Gmail (which filters our forum notifications into the rarely-reviewed bucket of “forum” messages,and Most of our users are in their 20s and so tend to use texting over email, - so I don’t think most of our users e…

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### Author: ![sebastianh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sebastianh/32/40415_2.png) [@sebastianh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sebastianh)
#### Post date: [2016 年6 月 7 日 16:50 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/less-frequent-email-options-for-less-active-accounts/27659/23 "2016-06-07T16:50:26Z")

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> [@BCHK](#):
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> 可能是一种账户/邮件老化系统，根据收到的点击量和邮件登录频率来降低邮件发送频率。

我认为这是一个避免向休眠账户发送每日邮件通知的绝妙主意。有这样的设置就太好了！#Contribute > Feature

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### Author: ![riking](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/riking/32/170938_2.png) [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [2016 年6 月 7 日 18:18 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/less-frequent-email-options-for-less-active-accounts/27659/24 "2016-06-07T18:18:33Z")

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> [@sebastianh](#):
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> Deleting everyone who hasn’t logged in within the last 12 months and deal with their complaints if they decide to come back in month 13? 😉

Users who don’t come back for a year get the digest mails stop being sent to them.

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### Author: ![sebastianh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sebastianh/32/40415_2.png) [@sebastianh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sebastianh)
#### Post date: [2016 年6 月 7 日 18:22 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/less-frequent-email-options-for-less-active-accounts/27659/25 "2016-06-07T18:22:40Z")

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But not topic notifications, I assume…

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### Author: ![chapoi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/chapoi/32/537252_2.png) [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [2025 年12 月 4 日 11:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/less-frequent-email-options-for-less-active-accounts/27659/26 "2025-12-04T11:35:52Z")

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