# Understanding email notification settings
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/understanding-email-notification-settings/44721
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 24, 2016, 6:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understanding-email-notification-settings/44721 "2016-05-24T06:44:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@dictoon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dictoon)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2016, 6:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understanding-email-notification-settings/44721/1 "2016-05-24T06:44:11Z")
I’ve been using Discourse for a few years now and I love it, but I still don’t understand the email notification settings:
(Screenshot from the latest version at the time of writing, v1.6.0.beta5)
Some questions and constructive criticism:
1. What’s the mailing list mode? One email for every new post? Maybe this needs a short explanation.
2. Why is the setting “When I don’t visit here, send an email digest of what’s new” in two places?
3. Isn’t there some overlap between “When I don’t visit here, send an email digest of what’s new” and “Send me email notifications even when I am active on the site”?
And my main gripe, which has already been discussed several times here but about which I’m not sure of the current status: Can I finally disable notifications for my own posts (topics and answers) while keeping notifications enabled for everything else?
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2016, 12:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understanding-email-notification-settings/44721/2 "2016-05-26T12:59:08Z")
> [@dictoon](#):
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> What’s the mailing list mode? One email for every new post? Maybe this needs a short explanation.
We now throw a warning modal when this setting is selected which explains better what you’re getting into by giving an estimate of how many mails you’ll be receiving per day by enabling the setting.
> [@dictoon](#):
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> Why is the setting “When I don’t visit here, send an email digest of what’s new” in two places?
This is a known UX bug and will be fixed.
> [@dictoon](#):
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> Isn’t there some overlap between “When I don’t visit here, send an email digest of what’s new” and “Send me email notifications even when I am active on the site”?
No. The first one is for digests only, while the second one is for all email notifications.
> [@dictoon](#):
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> Can I finally disable notifications for my own posts (topics and answers) while keeping notifications enabled for everything else?
Huh? In what instance do you receive notifications for your own posts?
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### Author:  [@dictoon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dictoon)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2016, 3:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understanding-email-notification-settings/44721/3 "2016-05-26T15:15:55Z")
> [@erlend\_sh](#):
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> Huh? In what instance do you receive notifications for your own posts?
See this thread: [How do I stop myself from receiving email notifications for my own posts in mailing list mode?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-stop-myself-from-receiving-email-notifications-when-i-reply-to-a-topic/26473) and numerous others here on Meta.
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2016, 3:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understanding-email-notification-settings/44721/4 "2016-05-26T15:27:27Z")
Continuing discussion in topic linked above.