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JDPower

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This has been an annoyance of mine for a long time so thought it was time to ask. Am I the only one that gets forum email notifications (new topics, replies to messages etc) regardless of how I have the email settings in my control panel set? Yesterday I tried unticking ALL the email settings and I still got a bunch of email notifications since.

 

I don't mind getting emails to inform me if someone replies to a topic I've taken part in but getting an email for every new topic that's posted is a nuisance.

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If I couldn't disable it via the My Controls settings, I would block the notification email address.

Thing is I just want to be able to control it normally. I'm perferctly happy to get a notification email if someone replies to a topic I've taken part in, just wish I could cut down the number i get as a result of getting one for every new topic posted and seems the forum is completely ignoring whatever changes I make in my email settings :huh:

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seems the forum is completely ignoring whatever changes I make in my email settings

Have you tried changing the settings in a different browser. Maybe it's a cookie issue, which is the only thing I can think of why it may not be saving your settings.

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Well just to update, after trying everything and giving up, I discovered the problem by pure chance when looking through my forum settings for something else. For some reason I was subscribed to the entire software section of the forum, so every new post and reply in the software section was sending an email notification to me, even though I had all email settings disabled. A strange quirk of the forum software I presume.

 

So having now removed that subscription (that I don't remember ever setting) all is well again and forum is finally only notifying me of replies to topics I've taken part in. Took a while but got there in the end :wacko:

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Sorry I didn't see your topic sooner.

(Having a few years managing this software, IP.Board, you tend to learn the common problems.)

Glad you sussed it out anyway. ;)

Yorkshireman

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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

Albert Einstein

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