# Moving old posts triggers email notifications **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-old-posts-triggers-email-notifications/208343 **Category:** Support **Created:** [November 5, 2021, 8:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-old-posts-triggers-email-notifications/208343 "2021-11-05T08:49:11Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 3
### Author: ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger) #### Post date: [November 5, 2021, 9:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-old-posts-triggers-email-notifications/208343/3 "2021-11-05T09:35:50Z")
That didn’t work for me? I turned it off, moved a topic, and the ‘watching first post’ user still got a notification. Is there anything else I needed to do? **Edit:** I had a brainfart, and didn’t do a bulk move. I’ll try again. 🙂 **Update:** It still sends the watching first post notification when I use the bulk move too? I’ve tried a few times and I can’t seem to figure out what I’m doing wrong? * * * I had to do a similar thing a small while back, and I went old school and put a notice up saying that I was moving/going to be moving a chunk of topics from one category to another, and that people who were ‘Watching First Post’ may get a few spam-like notifications. I was hoping it would give people a chance to change their category notifications (or just be aware and ignore them). It wasn’t so bad, though a couple of people missed the notice and were a little confused. Looking at it again now I know more about the admin settings, it may be possible to default the category notification in the admin settings to ~~normal~~ muted, which would stop the watching first post notifications - but I don’t know how you’d ‘reset’ it to what it was before once you’d finished? There are a few tips in this older post that might be useful: > [@Any way to NOT send emails when a topic category is changed?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-way-to-not-send-emails-when-a-topic-category-is-changed/112845/3): > > Changing the category with bulk selection will trigger notifications/emails to users that are watching the destination category. There are a couple options to prevent this: Gather the topic ids and use the rails console to change the category. If there are a lot of topics, you can use the [Data Explorer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/data-explorer-plugin/32566) to track down a set of topic ids, otherwise you can get them manually. This method bypasses all notifications/emails. You can bulk unlist the topics in their current category, then move the… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moving-old-posts-triggers-email-notifications/208343)._