Is there a way to prevent forum users from receiving email notifications for threads?

[Hareon]

I would like to limit the number of emails sent from my board a bit more, since the hosting limits the number of emails sent and I don't want some people to be unable to register because they don't receive emails.

My question is more specifically about Thread Monitoring. When someone posts in a thread, they automatically follow it. When someone replies, other users who follow it receive alerts and emails. I would like to remove the ability to receive thread emails. Is there an option to limit this?

 

[Jeremy P]

You can change the defaults for new users, but it won't affect the settings of existing users:



You can change them for an individual user when editing them via the actions menu in the control panel, but not in bulk:

 

[Hareon]

I saw that in the default settings there is an option to receive emails for new direct messages and news, but not for topics.

I didn't find an option in Nodes for the user to follow only by alerts (preventing the option to follow by receiving emails from appearing).

Unfortunately, I have more than 20,000 registered members. It would be complicated to edit each one's preferences.

Many self-hosted hostings have this limitation on sending emails. So maybe this could be a suggestion to implement these features in the future.

 

[Jeremy P]

I saw that in the default settings there is an option to receive emails for new direct messages and news, but not for topics.

The "watch on content creation/interaction" settings control the default settings for whether or not to receive watched thread emails. Other than watched content, we don't send emails for threads (other than the activity summary if that counts).

This also won't change the ability of new members to later adjust their own preferences to include emails, but it may slow the rate of increase in the short term. Long term, we'd recommend just setting up a dedicated outbound email service (like SES) if your volume is outgrowing what your host is capable of.