Hi.
On my new forum as well as on meta, I receive email notifications while I’m connected and active on the forum.
To be sure, I asked @Arkshine to send me a direct message while I was using meta, and I indeed received an email notification.
Weird, it was on “always”, but I’m 95% sure I didn’t get emails for direct messages when I was connected before. Has “always” always been the default value?