Continuing the discussion from Disable user account and what’s the difference between Suspended and Blocke users? Which of these options would also prevent them from ever getting an email from something they are Watching or via Mailing list mode?

Blocked will stop mailing list mode, suspended will prevent all emails (except for staff PMs). See [image] Understanding user statuses, roles, and permissions Site Management bookmark This is a guide for understanding the various user statuses, roles, and permissions within Discourse, including how they affect user capabilities and how they are stored in the database. person_raising_hand Required user level: Administrator Discourse has many built-in user statuses, roles, and permissions. These statuses and roles can be seen for a given user when viewing their profile from the users’ section of the admin dashboard: [admin-dashboard-user-permissions] Permi…

Deactivating will also prevent mails, until the account is active again. (Therefore, when using SSO, deactivating an account and blocking login on the SSO site will prevent mails indefinitely.)

Which setting(s) would prevent Discourse from emailing an old user?

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jomaxro (Joshua Rosenfeld) October 12, 2016, 3:41am 2

Blocked will stop mailing list mode, suspended will prevent all emails (except for staff PMs).

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Which setting(s) would prevent Discourse from emailing an old user?

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