# Suddenly getting email notifications of new posts to subscribed thread **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 26, 2021, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suddenly-getting-email-notifications-of-new-posts-to-subscribed-thread/953237 "2021-10-26T13:52:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2021, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suddenly-getting-email-notifications-of-new-posts-to-subscribed-thread/953237/1 "2021-10-26T13:52:07Z")
I am subscribed to one of those forever ongoing game threads. Yesterday I suddenly started getting email notifications for each new post. I thought I had set my preferences to send notifications through the board only and not by email. I revisited my preferences but the emails are still coming. How do I get this to stop, short of unsubscribing from the thread? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2021, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suddenly-getting-email-notifications-of-new-posts-to-subscribed-thread/953237/2 "2021-10-26T13:53:31Z")
Is the thread set to Tracking or Watching? If Watching, try setting it down to tracking. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2021, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suddenly-getting-email-notifications-of-new-posts-to-subscribed-thread/953237/3 "2021-10-26T14:03:21Z")
Watching. I will try changing it. However, I made not change in that setting for this thread yet suddenly started getting emails. I want to see notifications on the web page, I just want to stop the emails. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2021, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suddenly-getting-email-notifications-of-new-posts-to-subscribed-thread/953237/4 "2021-10-26T14:06:19Z")
Tracking will still make a thread show up in the Unread and with the little indicators of how many new posts there are. I have nothing set to Watching but will change this one to watching and see what happens. All 3 of my Email settings are set to NEVER. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2021, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suddenly-getting-email-notifications-of-new-posts-to-subscribed-thread/953237/5 "2021-10-26T14:51:54Z")
I dug down into my settings again and found this. It was under **Emails** and I had been looking under **Notifications**. > Send me an email when someone quotes me, replies to my post, mentions my @username, or invites me to a topic Set to “when I’m away”. I haven’t touched it, don’t know how it is anything but “never.” I set it back to “never” and let’s see what happens. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2021, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suddenly-getting-email-notifications-of-new-posts-to-subscribed-thread/953237/6 "2021-10-26T15:04:29Z")
Cool, hopefully that was it.