Stop Unwanted E-mails: How to Unsubscribe from PFS Threads

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Users are experiencing unwanted email notifications from PFS threads, despite not subscribing to them. A recent change reset user settings to default, causing automatic subscriptions. To stop these emails, users should navigate to User Control Panel (User CP), edit options, and select "do not subscribe" under Default Thread Subscription Mode. Additionally, users must manually deselect any currently subscribed threads to prevent further notifications. This solution has been confirmed by multiple users in the discussion.
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I didn't subscribe into ANY threads, but every other, week, I am automatically subscribed. When I check my e-mail, I get 40 extra e-mails from pfs telling me I have updates on some threads that I've "subscribed" to, even thought I never have. So, can anyone please do the honors of telling me how I could make it stop?
 
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Nose around in your User CP. There should be an option to turn off "automatically subscribe to posted threads" or some such. I believe someone is working on a fix for this.

Greg, Warren?
 
Hi Imparticle, there was a change made a few weeks ago that reset all options back to default values. Here is the way to fix it.

Just go to User CP, edit options, Default Thread Subscription Mode: select "do not subscribe"

Then go to User CP, select “view all subscribed threads” and deselect any threads listed that you see there, otherwise you will continue to get e-mail notifications on these, even after you reset your subscription default to “do not subscribe”, that only stops you from auto subscribing going forward.
 
[sigh] THANK YOU EVO! You rock! Thanks enigma!
 
You are like the 4th, 5th, person to start a topic on it..
 

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