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, voici une idée : j’aimerais recevoir un e-mail pour tout ce qui concerne une catégorie particulière, et des notifications régulières (les sujets que je surveille, les mentions, etc.) pour toutes les autres.
Il semblerait que le mode liste de diffusion conviendrait pour cela, mais la seule façon que je vois d’obtenir cela pour une seule catégorie est de mettre en sourdine toutes les autres, ce qui supprimerait également toutes les autres notifications souhaitées.
Définissez l’état de notification de la catégorie sur « suivi » dans ce cas. Visitez la page de la catégorie et regardez en haut à droite pour le contrôle des notifications.