# Email Notifications

**URL:** https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/email-notifications/863
**Category:** Site Feedback
**Created:** [March 11, 2023, 8:07am UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/email-notifications/863 "2023-03-11T08:07:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![Lora](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/goingtoseed.discourse.group/lora/32/1307_2.png) [@Lora](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/Lora)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2023, 8:07am UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/email-notifications/863/1 "2023-03-11T08:07:13Z")

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I’m getting like 10 emails a day notifying me of site activity that mostly doesn’t pertain to me. That is my one criticism. I don’t need those emails because I get the notifications here as well. Though I could see how that helps keep people engaged.

It took a few days but I feel like I am able to find my way around pretty easily now. Enjoying it very much. Thank you.

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### Author: ![RayS](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/goingtoseed.discourse.group/rays/32/130_2.png) [@RayS](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/RayS)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2023, 1:03pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/email-notifications/863/2 "2023-03-11T13:03:45Z")

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At the bottom of the thread is a dropdown menu button with a bell icon. If that button shows either Watching or Tracking I think you get email notifications. If I don’t want them I set this to Normal so that I only get notified if my @ name is used or someone replies directly to a post I have made in that thread.

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### Author: ![ChlorophyllDragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecc23a/32.png) [@ChlorophyllDragon](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/ChlorophyllDragon)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2023, 1:11pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/email-notifications/863/3 "2023-03-11T13:11:59Z")

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I hear you! I’m very sensitive to the volume of emails I get, and I’m ruthless about eliminating useless emails coming into my inbox. It did take me a little while to get the email flow from this site to what I consider a reasonable level.

Adjusting the settings under Preferences / Tracking helps. I have “Automatically track topics I enter” set to never and “When I post in a topic, set that topic to” set to normal. I remember having to go a number of threads and manually untracking them too.

Also, I don’t remember whether or not Activity Summary under Preferences / Email was checked by default, but I have it off now.

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### Author: ![julia.dakin](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/goingtoseed.discourse.group/julia.dakin/32/12_2.png) [@julia.dakin](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/u/julia.dakin)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2023, 10:28pm UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/email-notifications/863/4 "2023-03-13T22:28:51Z")

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Another thing you can do is choose to get a daily, weekly, monthly or never, email summary.  
To to your profile, preferences, emails… , it looks like this:

 ![Screen Shot 2023-03-13 at 3.25.35 PM](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/landracegardening/original/2X/1/108f8f4587e2cb4b7d9a005514c5b43775ef9097.png)  
And then you can select how often you want it  
 ![Screen Shot 2023-03-13 at 3.23.51 PM](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/landracegardening/original/2X/a/acce7da6a0aaa40e13145f56da9eb111c26ee67b.png)  
I thought it asked people right off the bat! I hope the constant emails isn’t an issue for everybody, unfortunately I can’t exactly choose the preferences for everybody.