Questions tagged [email-notification]
For questions about being notified of Stack Exchange events by email.
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Links in E-Mails look like phishing
Stackexchange started to use URLs in E-Mails, that look like phishing and have nothing to do with the real stackexchange domains.
Example:
<a
href="http://sg-links.stackoverflow.email/wf/...
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Subscription feed emails still doubly encode < and > characters
This is a re-post of a bug from six years ago, in the hope that it will get some love.
When I receive emails for my Stack Exchange email subscriptions, characters like < and > are doubly encoded,...
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Exposing the existence of inbox emails to drive-by users
We're soon going to start split testing a new feature: adding a checkbox by the answer field that allows users to opt-in to receive unread inbox items via email.
To be clear:
This will roll out as a ...
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Please format and add URLs to plain-text notification e-mails
In a previous question, someone requested that notification e-mails should use plain text. Using plain text for e-mails (or including a plain-text part in addition to an HTML part) is important for ...
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Notify me only of actual incidents when subscribed to Stack Overflow status page (stackstatus.net)
I noticed this in my inbox today:
When I subscribed to the status page, I expected to get emails only for actual incidents, that also appear in the history page (e.g. this one), but alas, looks like ...
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Subscription feed emails doubly encode < and > characters
When I receive emails for my Stack Exchange email subscriptions, characters like < and > are doubly encoded, i.e., they are rendered as < and > (and encoded as &lt; and &...
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How is the start of a bounty grace period a community milestone?
I received an email announcing the start of my bounty grace period:
At the bottom it says:
You’re receiving this message because you reached a Meta Stack Exchange community milestone.
How is this ...
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Subscription mail with no items "Only the top 0 posts shown"
I once more got a subscription mail that showed no items and (correctly) said "Only the top 0 posts shown."
Please stop sending these useless mails.
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Why was a straightforward link in a comment misrendered in a notification email?
In How can I do the work of Universal USB Installer from Linux?, I received the following email notification for the first comment, with a linked URL ending three characters too early:
The link ...
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Did the emails with notifications about inbox messages stop?
Depending on the settings chosen in preferences, a user is supposed to be shown the recent notifications if they have some notifications in the inbox and they haven't checked it for some period (The ...
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E-mail from Stack Exchange with incorrect plural
I received an e-mail from Stack Exchange with the title:
1 new items in your Stack Exchange inbox
This is incorrect. The correct writing is: "1 new item".
It would be nice to correct this.
Then, ...
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Can I request email with plain text only?
I'm grateful that there are both HTML and plain text sections in my daily notification emails, but every byte counts against my monthly email quotas. If I could choose to only receive plain text, I ...
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Email alert for new bounty questions of specified tags
Is there a way to get instant email notifications when a bounty is started on any questions (of specified tags)?
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Bounty completed notice (and grace period notification email) happen before bounty ends
The email notice that bounties have ended and are entering the grace period as well as the inbox notification seem to happen before the bounty period is actually over.
Several similar requests marked ...
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Plaintext part of notification mails does not link to comments and is otherwise broken
In Mutt, notification mails look like this for me:
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 18:19:25 +0000
From: Stack Exchange <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: 1 new ...
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Email notification with weekly unanswered question on my favorites tags
Recently I found useful to provided answers to unanswered questions, since I regularly search for a certain problem and get many related questions with no answer for a very long time.
Since ...
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My Stack Overflow email profile is set on 3 hours, but I'm not getting any notifications
I'm not getting notified of replies to my posts.
Why? What setting on stackexchange.com am I missing?
If there's an FAQ for that site, please let me know where, since I can't find one.
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Email Questions which meet condition XYZ
I would like to get email messages once a day (for example at 8 o'clock in the morning) about questions on a specific site (Stack Overflow) which are tagged with my most recent used tags which have no ...
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Ampersand not showed correctly in e-mail updates
As you can clearly see from the screenshot here below, the Ampersand char "&" is not correctly escaped in e-mail digest.
The screenshot comes from the daily update I receive from the "dnd-5e" feed ...
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Duplicated filter emails again
Before marking this as duplicated, I did find a couple of questions with the same question, but they were back in 2012 and were marked as solved.
I've been getting multiple emails for my tags ...
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Typo in email notifications (tag subscriptions)
The plaintext part of the tag subscription eMails contains the following text (slightly redacted):
[Unsubscribe from this
filter](<http://stackexchange.com/email/unsubscribe-filter/x/x?code=x>) ...
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E-mail escaping broken again
I'm seeing < for < in my, "New [topic] question for [date]", e-mails.
This seems to be a duplicate of an old issue that was marked resolved a couple years ago: Ellipses in email ...
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Is it possible to receive email update from favorites?
Here is my scenario:
i have a problem that is already in question on stackoverflow. i shouldn't add a comment to that question just to say "me too" and receive email updates. that is why i mark that ...
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Please send email notifications immediately when someone answers questions
Some time ago, I noticed that Stack Exchange isn't sending email notifications immediately when someone replies to my questions. I'd like to be notified via e-mail when someone answers my questions as ...
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Notifications by email: What are the conditions?
I'm a bit confused: I think I set my options to "no email", as I normally don't get any SE notifications (I visit Chess SE almost daily, so the indicator on the upper right of the homepage ...
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Bug in the Newsletter Subscription form
I found a small bug in the newsletter subscription form on the Stack Exchange platform.
Steps to reproduce it:
In the "Preferences" tab, check in the "Newsletter" section "Send me the weekly ...
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Do not send me emails about questions written by me (even if they have a tag I am subscribed to)
I subscribed to the tag "ecm", so I often receive such emails:
PROBLEM: Many of these email are about questions written by me.
(I am quite active in that field, usually answering but also often ...
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Would it be possible to get tag alerts only if the question(s) have not been viewed?
I am subscribed to the logic tag in Philosophy.SE, and have set it up to get emails every three hours with new questions.
I also happened to be on the site just now at the same time another user ...
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Notification emails contain lots of whitespace and empty lines in plaintext version
Please, nuke the whitespace in plaintext version of the notification emails! It’s almost hard to find the info. I highlighted the text to show how much whitespace the plaintext version of the emails ...
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Have there been modifications recently with filter subscriptions page on stackexchange.com?
I've been using the subscriptions to receive mails with questions (SO) about specific tags for a some time. However, since a couple of days I don't get any. I know that the stackoverflow service had ...
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Send full comments in email notifications
Because comments can be deleted but emails are permanent (until the receiver decides to delete them), can we have the full comment included in the email notifications, not just the first line.
I ...
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Add a link that takes me to my global inbox to emails telling me I have new messages
When I get an email notifying me of new messages in my SE inbox, I’d like it to include a link that gets me either
directly to my global inbox, or, at least,
to a Stack Exchange page with the message ...
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Email updates for filter delayed by several hours
I'm using a filter (https://stackexchange.com/filters/305027/sam#) to keep track of new questions within my area of interest. I have email updates enabled for every 15 minutes.
Since a couple of days,...
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Separate filter email updates for each question with unique subject lines
I currently use IFTTT to send me an email for each new feed item from questions I am interested in on Stack Exchange but I would much rather use Stack Exchange's own filters feature with email updates....
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Why is Stack Exchange using my old email address?
Yesterday, Stack Exchange sent me an email with the Developer Survey 2017 results. I am importing mail from various addresses, so it was only by chance I noticed it was sent to one of my older emails.
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Why do email notifications show HTML entities in question details?
This is a rendering problem in email notifications received based on watched keywords. The text containing question details is rendered as HTML-escaped. The characters < (less-than) and > are ...
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Ability to get notifications for keywords (not tags)
I'm not sure how feasible this would be, but it could be nice in many cases to be able to subscribe for alerts on questions having a specific keywords. I saw a similar questions asked before, but ...
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Plaintext notification emails do not link to questions
This is what the text/plain part of a notification email looks like:
The following items were added to your Stack Exchange global inbox since you last checked it on 2013-09-17:
Sep, 17 Cannot ...
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Replacing the login e-mail address doesn't replace the notification e-mail address
A few days ago, I changed the e-mail address associated with my Stack Exchange account by adding the new e-mail address, then deleting the old one and deleting the old address from the mail service. ...
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Open app directly from filter email notifications
I have a Stack Exchange-wide filter set up to email me every few hours when certain tags are used. However, when clicking the links in the email, they always open in Safari, from which I need to click ...
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Global inbox email says "updates every 3 hours", linked page says "daily updates"
It's only a small one, but I just got an email notifying me of an item in my inbox. The footer shows:
However, when I click the link, the page looks like this:
As you can see, the email states that ...
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Email notifications not working (never)
I know it has been asked before but I never receive notifications, even after weeks. I suppose setting it in my account settngs should be enough, isn't it?
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I don't think it's a duplicate ...
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Account issue - notifications to old email address
At one point or another, I've used 2 email addresses with Stack Overflow - one when I started, and then I updated it as I changed my email address.
The problem is: my notification emails are still ...
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There is no email notification link in the Stack Exchange menu
I followed the instructions on the blog to try to set up email notification. But there is no link there at the bottom-left corner of the Stack Exchange logo.
I tried in FF and IE. But now suddenly I ...
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Text email notifications have broken tags
The text version of email notifications have only the first tag listed. Random example from my mail box below -- note the "Tagged: list".
[How is the value of (list 'quote '5) = ''5 rather than '(...
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Option for email alerts to not show questions you've already answered/viewed
I like and use the email alert option for certain tags, but I get emailed on questions I have already seen and/or answered and/or commented on. It would be great to have an option to filter out ones ...
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I already read my incoming messages on SO, but still I got the "1 Question Has 2 Answers" email the next day
In my prefs I've enabled "I'd like email notifications of activity on questions I've asked". I got some answers to a question of mine, the envelope lighted up red when I visited SO again, I went and ...
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What's the purpose of same sentences with and without plural forms?
There're a couple of the same sentences in traducir.win:
Your post has been associated with a similar question. If that question doesn’t answer your issue, edit your question to highlight the ...
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Change email for all subscriptions at once
I moved to a new email address and would like all of the StackExchange filter alerts I receive to go to that one. However, seeing as I have quite a few of these, it'd be a pain to set up by setting an ...
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Easy way to re-subscribe on Tag
Last 3 months ago , I had un-subscribe on some tags. Today, I want to subscribe on them again.
So , I find subscription confirm message from my old mails and clicked on Confirm Subscription links.But ...
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