Currently users receive notifications of all posts in a topic, including their own. This emulates traditional mailing list behaviour, but many users are familiar with some mail client’s behaviour that “hides” these emails automatically.
Perhaps there could be an option (off by default) to include the user’s own posts in notifications (on would notify them of their post, off would skip it)?
Email notifications. Our forum will be migrating from a mailing list, so most users will have the following four options ticked:
Receive an email when someone sends you a private message
Receive an email when someone quotes you, replies to your post, or mentions your @username
Receive an email every time a post is made on the forum (unless you mute the topic or category)
Receive email notifications and email digests even if you are active on the forum
Haven’t had time to test myself, but options two and three I believe cause the user to receive even their own posts by email, which is traditional mailing list behaviour, but I don’t think is “modern” behaviour, IMO.
I opted not to start another post on this subject, but is there a solution that can filter these emails from going out. Emailing the system and then getting that email sent back to you as a notification is definitely not how the Google Groups system works and definitely not what we want from this new system. It also confuses the doctors who tend to be kinda fragile when it comes to “techy stuff” ( = basically anything updated that isn’t an iPhone).