Stopping TFF emails

[steveR]

I do not want or need the email notifications from TFF, as they overload my phone inbox, and I can miss important emails in the blizzarrd! I never use or look at the TFF notifications, even on the desktop or laptop either!

I have ticked every single box in my |Settings| |Preferences| but still they arrive....

Have I overlooked something please?

 

[Chris F]

Like the reminders of when you are tagged in a post?

 

[steveR]

Like the reminders of when you are tagged in a post?

Yes...

And when someone has responded to a thread I am "involved" in...

I log on far too frequently, and so I just click on the Alert icon to get updates

 

[Chris F]

Yes...

And when someone has responded to a thread I am "involved" in...

I log on far too frequently, and so I just click on the Alert icon to get updates

In Preferences does it look like mine - I don't get emails:

 

[steveR]

Yep, exactly the same... hence my confusion....

 

[Clive]

mine are set like this - i don’t get emails every time i’m tagged or quoted

 

[steveR]

Thanks @Clive

I really am bemused why the system keeps on sending emails, in spite of my "ticking" all the boxes, although in our case, it is unticking all the boxes...

 

[steveR]

 

[Clive]

try un ticking the “automatically watch content you create” and “watch content you interact with boxes” maybe ?

 

[Chris F]

I'll create a ticket @steveR but I have fixed for you in the mean time.

 

[steveR]

I'll create a ticket @steveR but I have fixed for you in the mean time.

Merci Bucks, it is a weird one that had me messing on and off before now, but with the move to collecting all email on my phone at present (project going on) the TFF email output, was almost like spam!

 

[Chris F]

Merci Bucks, it is a weird one that had me messing on and off before now, but with the move to collecting all email on my phone at present (project going on) the TFF email output, was almost like spam!

If you use the system a lot, alerts are way to go

 

[steveR]

If you use the system a lot, alerts are way to go

I use the system FAR too much Chris...

Was away for a morning and come back to find 20 odd alert messages!! FAR too much!!!

 

[renewablejohn]

Think you may have a problem with scammers using TFF as a back door to gain email address by notification of wanting more info on a sale item. Received email supposed to be wanting more info on forwarding trailer from a Linda Epstein but is nothing of the sort just a phising scam offering me 1.000.000 USD if I email her at [email protected] It went in my spam box so no harm done but others might be more gullible.

 

[Chris F]

Think you may have a problem with scammers using TFF as a back door to gain email address by notification of wanting more info on a sale item. Received email supposed to be wanting more info on forwarding trailer from a Linda Epstein but is nothing of the sort just a phising scam offering me 1.000.000 USD if I email her at [email protected] It went in my spam box so no harm done but others might be more gullible.

If its from Classifieds - that can be used to send you an email from the Classifieds system. They never get your email address to contact you directly, unless you email them back. We just have to keep adding them to our banned IP list.

There is no such feature within TFF - just the DM system, which can also be abused, but is more complicated to bypass.