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.

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.

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.

Cool! When enabled, is there a way to prevent it from sending me email notification about my own messages?

This has been a very common feature request, but hasn’t been implemented yet :sadpanda:

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…

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.

The Felix, that’s the first suggestion I remember reading which can really help cut through the debate. Nice.

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?

Yes, provided you configure “email reply support” appropriately: [image] Set up reply by email with POP3 polling Self-Hosting 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 defa…

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.

What is "Mailing List mode"?

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steko (Stefano Costa) July 13, 2016, 3:16pm 10

Yes, provided you configure “email reply support” appropriately:

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How do I stop myself from receiving email notifications for my own posts in mailing list mode? Support email	20	7928	May 26, 2016
Should not receive emails for your own replies Feature mailing-list	23	5442	September 17, 2024
Mailing list mode "Send me an email for every new post" doesn't send mails for your own posts Support mailing-list	4	490	March 9, 2024
In Mailing List Mode allow users to receive copies of their own posts Support email	28	960	June 15, 2023
Option to disable own post notification in "mailing list mode" Feature	8	2549	June 21, 2016

What is "Mailing List mode"?

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