So I am trying to figure out how email settings work, and there is this confusing matrix of options that I’m not sure how they relate:
Emails tab:
Send me an email when someone messages me: always / only when away / never
Send me an email when someone quotes me, replies to my post, mentions my @username, or invites me to a topic: always / only when away / never
When I don’t visit here, send me an email summary of popular topics and replies
Enable mailing list mode
Notifications tab
Consider topis new when
Automatically track topics I enter
When I post in a topic, set that topic to
Notify when liked
So my questions are:
Do the settings on the Notifications section have any impact on what emails are sent in any situation?
Do topics that are tracked or watched have any impact on what emails are sent in any situation?
What categories are emails sent for when mailing list mode is on? Is it supposed to be the entire site or just certain categories? If the latter, how does one select which categories to get emails for?
The help text for mailing list mode says it “overrides the activity summary.” When it’s on, though, the warning box says “Mailing list mode enabled. Email notification settings are overriden.” So does that mean that the first two settings I mentioned above are always “always” when mailing list mode is on?
Is there a difference between enabling mailing list mode and listing all categories in the “watched” section under notifications? Does being “notified of all new posts and topics” imply an email also?
I feel silly admitting that I didn’t know it existed, but indeed I didn’t. (Side question: Where should I have seen this?)
It helped clarify some things - so thanks for mentioning it! But after reading through it, most of my questions remain. For instance, the relationship between watches or tracked topics and emails is still quite unclear.
So apparently the core concept of a “notification” in Discourse is that upper-right badge. I guess this is a bit of an overloaded word, because I would consider “email notifications” and “browser notifications” to also be notifications… Ah well.
OK, ¿qué te parece esto: me gustaría recibir un correo electrónico con todo lo relacionado con una categoría específica, y notificaciones regulares (cosas que sigo, menciones, etc.) para todas las demás.
Parece que necesitaría el modo de lista de correo para esto, pero la única forma que veo de activarlo solo para una categoría es silenciar todas las demás, lo que también silenciaría todas las demás notificaciones deseadas.
En ese caso, establece el estado de notificación de la categoría como “observando”. Visita la página de la categoría y busca el control de notificaciones en la esquina superior derecha.