# Mailing list turned OFF - How to Disable Per Post Email for Existing Users

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**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [11월 15, 2017, 12:48오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailing-list-turned-off-how-to-disable-per-post-email-for-existing-users/74079 "2017-11-15T00:48:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Senthil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/senthil/32/116238_2.png) [@Senthil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Senthil)\
**Post date:** [11월 15, 2017, 12:48오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailing-list-turned-off-how-to-disable-per-post-email-for-existing-users/74079/1 "2017-11-15T00:48:27Z")

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Hello All,

Our forum grew from few people to few hundreds now and we started getting complaints about too many emails.

I turned off “mailing list mode”.

 ![24 PM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/0/c/0ce3a16a80b4967130c66af80c105263b08e240b.png)

But still, users who registered when it was ON, get the email for everything.

- Is that an expected behavior?

Since our forum has grown and still growing, I want to clean up a bit have a situation where.

For certain categories.

- Category-1 : I want emails for all posts. I think, the term is **Watching**
- Category-2: I want email for new topic. I think, there is an option available.
- Most Categories: I want no emails to be sent (unless @mentioned), and prefer users coming to site and participating.

I want to set this up, but given 600 users have registered when I had mailing list mode ON, how can do this?

- Should I go to DB and turn-off the mailing list mode from their profile.
- Then I could use Watching and Tracking as needed and will be get the desired behavior?

Thanks,  
Senthil

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