# Muted Categories still send emails
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/muted-categories-still-send-emails/177704
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [January 29, 2021, 6:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/muted-categories-still-send-emails/177704 "2021-01-29T18:16:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@ArcticF0xx](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ArcticF0xx)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2021, 6:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/muted-categories-still-send-emails/177704/1 "2021-01-29T18:16:46Z")
My team members are automatically receiving emails from a private category even though they have the entire category muted.
Are we missing another layer of permissions to stop these emails from going out?
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2021, 7:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/muted-categories-still-send-emails/177704/2 "2021-01-29T19:33:29Z")
Do they have mailing list mode enabled?
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### Author:  [@ArcticF0xx](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ArcticF0xx)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2021, 9:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/muted-categories-still-send-emails/177704/3 "2021-01-29T21:34:45Z")
Do you know where to check to see if it’s enabled?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2021, 1:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/muted-categories-still-send-emails/177704/4 "2021-02-01T01:52:20Z")
In their user preferences under emails.