# What is "Mailing List mode"?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-mailing-list-mode/46008
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [6월 18, 2016, 2:50오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-mailing-list-mode/46008 "2016-06-18T14:50:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@kuba-orlik](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kuba-orlik)
#### Post date: [6월 18, 2016, 2:50오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-mailing-list-mode/46008/1 "2016-06-18T14:50:14Z")
What does the “Mailing List mode” do? How does it affect my notifications?
The only information given to me in the UI is:
> This setting overrides the activity summary.
> Muted topics and categories are not included in these emails.
---
### Author:  [@steko](https://meta.discourse.org/u/steko)
#### Post date: [6월 18, 2016, 4:29오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-mailing-list-mode/46008/2 "2016-06-18T16:29:54Z")
In mailing list mode you will receive one email per post, as happens with traditional mailing lists. This is desirable if you prefer to interact via email, without visiting the forum website.
---
### Author:  [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)
#### Post date: [6월 18, 2016, 5:19오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-mailing-list-mode/46008/3 "2016-06-18T17:19:31Z")
or, you might set it as default if you want your end users to get regular notices of all traffic in all categories, by default.
Useful for closed systems with known sets of users who _should_ be seeing all content. Not as great for public forums, where so much email might be a turn off.
---
### Author:  [@kuba-orlik](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kuba-orlik)
#### Post date: [6월 19, 2016, 9:23오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-mailing-list-mode/46008/4 "2016-06-19T09:23:43Z")
Cool! When enabled, is there a way to prevent it from sending me email notification about my own messages?
---
### Author:  [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)
#### Post date: [6월 19, 2016, 2:33오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-mailing-list-mode/46008/5 "2016-06-19T14:33:49Z")
This has been a very common feature request, but hasn’t been implemented yet :sadpanda:
---
### Author:  [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)
#### Post date: [6월 19, 2016, 9:41오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-mailing-list-mode/46008/6 "2016-06-19T21:41:53Z")
hilariously, if you’re just “watching” a topic, you’ll get all the emails, with context, and you won’t get your own posts.
There’s really no winning that battle.. as many people hate getting their own posts, as worry their post didn’t go through if they didn’t see it echo’d back.
It’d have to be a per-user preference, and I can’t guess if it’s better to have it off or on by default (though on seems better, since people are more likely to act on “I wish I didn’t get my own posts” than they are to guess they could turn on an option to "get my own posts)
there’s many topics on meta about this already, though, no clear winner.
---
### Author:  [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)
#### Post date: [6월 20, 2016, 4:14오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-mailing-list-mode/46008/7 "2016-06-20T04:14:29Z")
Looking at your post, I was starting to wonder…
Would limiting echoing to posts made via mail make sense? There, some confirmation is nice – on the web, you already saw your post go through.
---
### Author:  [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)
#### Post date: [6월 21, 2016, 3:20오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-mailing-list-mode/46008/8 "2016-06-21T03:20:41Z")
The Felix, that’s the first suggestion I remember reading which can really help cut through the debate. Nice.
---
### Author:  [@Jo-Erlend\_Schinstad](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jo-Erlend_Schinstad)
#### Post date: [7월 13, 2016, 2:46오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-mailing-list-mode/46008/9 "2016-07-13T14:46:01Z")
Does this also mean users can also respond to posts by email and it’ll appear as if added as a normal comment though Discourse?
---
### Author:  [@steko](https://meta.discourse.org/u/steko)
#### Post date: [7월 13, 2016, 3:16오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-mailing-list-mode/46008/10 "2016-07-13T15:16:02Z")
Yes, provided you configure “email reply support” appropriately:
> [@Set up reply by email with POP3 polling](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-up-reply-via-email-support/14003):
>
> So you’d like to set up reply via email support for your Discourse forum. mega Reply via email is pre-configured and enabled by default on all [discourse.org](http://discourse.org) hosted sites. The guide below only applies to those self-hosting. Good news! Unlike outgoing email, which is completely unsuitable for typical consumer mail services like GMail, Outlook, Yahoo Mail, etc, incoming reply via-email tends to be extremely low volume. Unless you have a truly massive forum with a zillion people replying to no…
---
### Author:  [@Jo-Erlend\_Schinstad](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jo-Erlend_Schinstad)
#### Post date: [7월 13, 2016, 4:51오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-mailing-list-mode/46008/11 "2016-07-13T16:51:39Z")
Wow, that sounds awesome. It depends on well it works in practice, of course, but if it can really be usable as a mailing list system as well as a commenting system, that’s pretty fantastic.
---
### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [6월 8, 2024, 12:45오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-mailing-list-mode/46008/12 "2024-06-08T12:45:28Z")
이 주제는 2911일 후 자동으로 닫혔습니다. 더 이상 새 답글을 작성할 수 없습니다.