The option “Mailing list mode” has been enabled again. However, I do ask everyone who is considering enabling it to be aware of the following:
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The name “Mailing list mode” is confusing. This is not the only way to get email notifications through Discourse.
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“Mailing list mode” will email you for every new post across the entirety of our Discourse instance, so don’t enable it, unless this is something you really want.
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The recommended mode for getting emails is to watch categories or sub-categories. However, there are some things about this approach that users have reported not to like such as WebUI notifications and not getting email for your own posts.
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If you choose to use “Mailing List Mode”, but do not want notifications from every category, you can go Mute those categories.
I’ll be adding more to the LLVM Documentation about this topic and will post here once those updates have been finished.