# Why so many outgoing emails?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-so-many-outgoing-emails/47021
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [09.Июль.2016 06:27:42 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-so-many-outgoing-emails/47021 "2016-07-09T06:27:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author: ![SidV](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sidv/32/119460_2.png) [@SidV](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SidV)
#### Post date: [09.Июль.2016 06:27:42 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-so-many-outgoing-emails/47021/1 "2016-07-09T06:27:42Z")

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I’ve got a small forum, less than 3k users.

And at sparkpost report:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/f/2/f26e3b97c80db09b39770c9bf42cc54d8630d0b3.png)

Of course SparkPost denied me the “sending” emails, so no new user activations are sending now and I must “pay” if I need fix this problem now 😢

At the moment I decided to disable the summary emails, and try to decrease any outgoing email from the forum., To see if I can reduce emails.

> I detected this problem after updating latest version, I don’t know, maybe it’s coincidence.

Regards!

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### Author: ![fefrei](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/fefrei/32/119538_2.png) [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)
#### Post date: [09.Июль.2016 07:00:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-so-many-outgoing-emails/47021/2 "2016-07-09T07:00:44Z")

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You could try browsing the email logs in the admin section to see why these emails were sent 🙂

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### Author: ![SidV](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sidv/32/119460_2.png) [@SidV](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SidV)
#### Post date: [11.Июль.2016 12:37:39 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-so-many-outgoing-emails/47021/3 "2016-07-11T12:37:39Z")

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Thanks @fefrei.

Apparently `digest` and `mailing_list` eat all the included “free” quote by sparkpost. ☹  
So, I disable mailing\_list and I will test that this month.

Thanks

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### Author: ![meglio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/meglio/32/71444_2.png) [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)
#### Post date: [04.Ноябрь.2016 08:46:01 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-so-many-outgoing-emails/47021/4 "2016-11-04T08:46:01Z")

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Hi, @SidV, learn your email statistics with using this query for [data explorer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/32566?silent=true):

> [@Email statistics](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-statistics-sql-script-for-data-explorer/52478):
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> I run into 100k / mo emails limit of a free SparkPost account. To better understand what type of email exactly I have to tackle, I had to write an SQL query which calculates email statistics by email type. Sharing it with the community. Example result: SQL query -- [params] -- string :date\_interval = 1 month WITH stats AS ( SELECT email\_type, COUNT(id) as num FROM email\_logs WHERE created\_at \>= CURRENT\_TIMESTAMP - interval :date\_interval GROUP BY email\_type ) SELEC…

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [25.Март.2019 03:44:23 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-so-many-outgoing-emails/47021/5 "2019-03-25T03:44:23Z")

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [19.Май.2022 14:18:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-so-many-outgoing-emails/47021/6 "2022-05-19T14:18:03Z")

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### Author: ![itsbhanusharma](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/itsbhanusharma/32/180717_2.png) [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)
#### Post date: [19.Май.2022 14:23:11 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-so-many-outgoing-emails/47021/7 "2022-05-19T14:23:11Z")

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