# Sudden increase in emails

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/sudden-increase-in-emails/279777>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [September 22, 2023, 10:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sudden-increase-in-emails/279777 "2023-09-22T10:04:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Alexander\_Wright](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/alexander_wright/32/119518_2.png) [@Alexander\_Wright](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Alexander_Wright)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2023, 10:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sudden-increase-in-emails/279777/1 "2023-09-22T10:04:10Z")

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I’ve noticed a large increase in my forum’s email traffic:

 ![Screenshot 2023-09-22 at 09.35.28](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/7/3/4/7347984ce2895db79af87a2e4b2b97f2e639eba5.png)

In addition to this increase, there are no logs in April.

We did have a peak of posts in August, but this equalled April…

 ![Screenshot 2023-09-22 at 11.01.08](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/d/5/3/d53f35945cb03b0678db633c5a53a9fd806a32a1.png)

We’ve hit a cap in our email relay service, and would like to reduce the number of outgoing emails.

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