# Discourse emails?
**URL:** https://gramps.discourse.group/t/discourse-emails/1310
**Category:** Help
**Created:** [March 14, 2021, 2:53pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/discourse-emails/1310 "2021-03-14T14:53:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@prculley](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/prculley)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2021, 2:53pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/discourse-emails/1310/1 "2021-03-14T14:53:31Z")
I haven’t gotten any emails from the Discourse groups lately; has something changed?
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### Author:  [@emyoulation](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/emyoulation)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2021, 4:28pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/discourse-emails/1310/2 "2021-03-14T16:28:29Z")
Mailing list mode has disappeared from the Discourse user preferences.
Saw a 5 day old reference to a thread from other Discourse users about it being gone. But my throttled connection isn’t letting me get to the info.
> **[Update today disabled mailing list mode?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/update-today-disabled-mailing-list-mode/182590)**
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> Hi Discourse Meta — Checking my inbox this evening, I seemed to be missing notifications about several messages that should have been sent out in the past several hours which was worrisome because we’re freezing our Spring release today. After...
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### Author:  [@emyoulation](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/emyoulation)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2021, 4:38pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/discourse-emails/1310/3 "2021-03-14T16:38:49Z")
@Nick-Hall@gramps-project
An admin setting for Discourse has incorrectly reset itself. The above link was to a redundant thread. It refers to a solution in the following Discourse support forum thread:
> **["mailing list mode" mysteriously deactivated](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mailing-list-mode-mysteriously-deactivated/182650)**
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> In a forum I manage, we have had the mailing list mode activated for months. Suddenly some hours ago the setting got deactivated. How can this have happened? It now looks like this: Checked the staff action logs and nothing related to this showed...
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### Author:  [@gramps-project](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/gramps-project)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2021, 7:41pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/discourse-emails/1310/4 "2021-03-14T19:41:00Z")
> [@emyoulation](#):
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> An admin setting for Discourse has incorrectly reset itself.
I’ve set it back to what it was!
It was a deliberate choice by the Discourse project to reduce cost according to them:
> This decision was not take lightly. **It was based on extreme real world problems we saw where email costs for** self hosters and **other discourse installations went sky high.**
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> We opted for a safer default, to keep costs down for people.
I’m guessing our freely provided Gramps Discourse is hopefully not the target of this change, and looks like they will be reviewing how changes to Discourse’s software default setting are made in the future?
Very appreciative of the [free service](https://blog.discourse.org/2018/11/free-hosting-for-open-source-v2/) they provide us as an open source project!
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@emyoulation](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/emyoulation)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2021, 8:10pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/discourse-emails/1310/5 "2021-03-14T20:10:21Z")
Thank you. Definitely share an appreciation of their hosting too.
There is no need to notify users to check settings. My previous setting (with the mailing list mode enabled) survived the cycling of that admin switch.
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### Author:  [@system](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2021, 8:10pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/discourse-emails/1310/6 "2021-04-13T20:10:38Z")
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