How do I stop email notifications of subscribed thread activity?

jim hardy

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while you're tweaking --

how do i prevent the emails notifying me of updates to thread?
I found it once on my profile, but darned if i can again.

old jim

Ryan_m_b

My PF, settings and options, edit options, scroll to messaging and notifications.

Redbelly98

Be aware that once you change the settings, they are only applied to future threads that you post in or subscribe to. Existing subscribed threads will still generate email.

When you get an email about a previously-subscribed thread, you can go to the thread and click:

Thread Tools
Unsubscribe from this thread

Voila! No more email messages -- for that thread.

Then, if you want you may resubscribe -- so that the thread still appears in your subscribed threads list:

Thread Tools
Subscribe to this thread
Notification Type: No email notification (should be default)
Folder: Subscriptions (should be default)
and click Add Subscription

You'll basically have to keep doing this to individual threads for a while, but the frequency of doing this will decrease as older threads seldom get posted to.

mfb

You can change the subscription type for threads in groups of 40 in the subscription list: Check the upper right box (in the header of the table, this checks all threads on that page), and change the subscription type (below the table) to "no email notification".

You can remove all subscriptions at once, too, but then you don't have them in the control panel any more.

Redbelly98

Wish I'd known about that 4 years ago