Mailing list question

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We handle this in our community by using the category watching settings, which we can set for other members using the following howto. Basically you’d set the mailing list category to WATCHING and the rest to NORMAL. We stay away from mailing list mode altogether.

Edit a user preference for everyone or a subset of users

If you need to update the user preference for all of your users or a large subset of users, you can do so via the rails console. From console, run these commands to enter the rails console for Discourse ./launcher enter app rails c Then, run a command that selects the set of users you wish to update. Examples Set the last seen date for users who have never logged in User.where("last_seen_at IS NULL").update_all(last_seen_at: 1.week.ago) Unset mailing list mode for all users who may have se…