# Understanding email notification settings

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/understanding-email-notification-settings/44721>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [24. Mai 2016 um 06:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understanding-email-notification-settings/44721 "2016-05-24T06:44:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![dictoon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dictoon/32/47968_2.png) [@dictoon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dictoon)\
**Post date:** [24. Mai 2016 um 06:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understanding-email-notification-settings/44721/1 "2016-05-24T06:44:11Z")

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I’ve been using Discourse for a few years now and I love it, but I still don’t understand the email notification settings:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/1/7/177beb5d1d6d799fb54b387ccf053d22f3c04a58.png)

(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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