# Removing ALL email notifications for a user that has left

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/removing-all-email-notifications-for-a-user-that-has-left/155385>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [June 19, 2020, 6:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/removing-all-email-notifications-for-a-user-that-has-left/155385 "2020-06-19T18:52:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![simon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/simon/32/339122_2.png) [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2020, 7:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/removing-all-email-notifications-for-a-user-that-has-left/155385/2 "2020-06-19T19:17:28Z")

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> [@Judith](#):
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> Sometimes they leave and I want to make sure that they don’t receive any more forum notifications on topics or categories they have subscribed to.

The options that I can think of, from least to most drastic are:

- update a user’s email preferences by setting ‘Send me an email when someone messages me’ and ‘Send me an email when someone quotes me, replies to my post, mentions my @username, or invites me to a topic’ to “Never”
- suspend the user
- anonymize the user

Any of these options could be performed through the Discourse API.

Suspending users might be the closest to what you are looking for. A suspended user’s usercard will look something like this, the message that is displayed is supplied by you when you suspend the user:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/8/2/82d48202288787eefcfde53f8635eac03c663e06.png)

Site staff can still message suspended users, but suspended users cannot log into the site, and will not receive email notifications unless the notification is sent to them from a staff member.

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