We have a private forum (hosted on Digital Ocean) of about 950 members. Normally, we send around 75k to 90k emails a month (we use SendGrid as an email relay host and are pretty happy with them). This month, because of community growth and helping members deal with COVID-19 issues, posts have soar…

One solution would be to turn off mailing list mode for all users and enable summary emails. Those who really want mailing list mode would have to turn it back on. I imagine that most users aren’t opening them.

Limit volume of forum emails via admin

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) April 4, 2020, 9:12am 6

There are some examples at Administrative Bulk Operations

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Limit volume of forum emails via admin

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