ericgtr

This board is setup to automatically send emails upon replies to your posts. To change this go to the User CP link (top left on menu) Edit Options and look for Default Thread Subscription Mode.

• Do not subscribe = No notifications at all
• No email notification = Will show a check next to the thread you have started or replied and will show it in your User CP to but will not email you
• Instant email notification (default) - Will send email to every response to a thread that you've started or replied to - Same for Daily and Weekly

Kana

Since a number of people have been having problems with this, I decided to throw together a little tutorial to show them with screen captures the settings they need to change to make sure they stop getting e-mails from subscribed threads.

Step 1: Change default thread subscription mode

The first thing you need to do is change you Default Thread Subscription Mode, as Eric described in the first post. This setting can be found in your UserCP, here: http://www.politicalgroove.com/profi...do=editoptions

Scroll down to the "Messaging & Notification" section and find "Default Thread Subscription Mode" and select "No email notification" from the drop down box, as shown in the picture below:


You may alternately chose the "Do not subscribe" option. That makes it so that replying to threads does not automatically add them to your list of subscriptions.

After you change this setting, make sure you scroll all the way down to the bottom of the screen and press the "Save Changes" button.

The effect of changing this setting is that any new threads you subscribe to will be set to the "No Email" option. However, this does not change the email option on threads you subscribed to before changing the above setting.

Step 2: Change notification type for existing subscriptions

To stop receiving email from your currently subscribed threads, you must change the notification setting for each of them. Bring up your subscribed threads list in your UserCP, found here: http://www.politicalgroove.com/subsc...ewsubscription

You will see a list of all your subscribed threads, and if you've been using the default setting and replied to a lot of threads, you may have a lot of them, and they will probably all be set to "Instant" notification. What you want to do is place a check mark next to each thread listed on the page. The easiest way to do that is to check the checkbox at the very top of the list, as indicated in the picture below:


Checking the top box automatically checks them all. Once all the "Instant" notification threads are selected (checked), scroll all the way down to the bottom of the list and find the drop down box labelled "Selected Threads:", as seen below. From the drop down box, choose "No email notification" as shown in the picture.


Alternately, you can choose "Delete Subscription" if you don't want to be subscribed to these threads.

After you make your selection from the drop down box, make sure to press the "Go" button:


This should change all the selected threads to "None" for the notification type, which means no more emails from those threads. Also note that if you have more than one page worth of subscriptions, as you can see I do, you will need to repeat this process for each page worth of subscriptions, until all of your subscriptions are set to "None" for the notification type.

I hope these pictures will help clear up any confusion people have been having.

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DannyBoy

Kana that is fantastic, I'd like o Thank You on behalf of the lot of us for putting such effort into it. Im sure it'll be a Godsend for alot of people. Good on ya . Jeez, cute, smart, funny and thoughtful & helpful ?...

ericgtr

Excellent, thanks for the detailed explanation, Kana.

Chuckweirdstone

Thanks Kana. I was having the same problem with the ones that were still coming and this is what I needed to fix it. Many thanks and heartfelt lust.

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Kana

You're welcome, guys.

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Dr. Zaius

Yes thank you very much. VERY VERY much. Not only were the instructions precise....they worked! I checked my e-mails this morning and not one Political Groove e-mail. Thanks again!

ericgtr

What, not even one? Time for Mark to get a daily newsletter update from us.

Dr. Zaius

I actualy wondered about that, but I think I can still recieve updates from admin......I hope. One a day would be better than 100 a day.

ericgtr

Yeah, you can still receive updates from the admin but that is an option you can turn off. However, it's very rare that you see them coming from me on any of my sites. In all the years I have ran boards I can count on one hand how many emailers that I've sent out. Personally, I can't stand them and see it as spam.