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  1. NewFolder's Avatar
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    E-mail notification for replies
    I'm quite surprised that TSR does not have an option for receiving an e-mail notification that someone has replied to your post (unless it already has and its well hidden!).

    Would it be possible to perhaps implement this into TSR?
  2. mr tim's Avatar
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    Re: E-mail notification for replies
    http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/prof...do=editoptions

    Halfway down the page there is "Default watch thread" and a drop down box telling you which you how you want to do e-mails.

    Although this way means that you'll also watch threads if you reply to a thread too, but you can remove it from your watch thread list by clicking on "thread tools" at the top of the threads.
  3. NewFolder's Avatar
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    Re: E-mail notification for replies
    (Original post by mr tim)
    http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/prof...do=editoptions

    Halfway down the page there is "Default watch thread" and a drop down box telling you which you how you want to do e-mails.

    Although this way means that you'll also watch threads if you reply to a thread too, but you can remove it from your watch thread list by clicking on "thread tools" at the top of the threads.

    Sorry, didn't phrase it very well. What I meant by 'reply' was when someone replies to a message you wrote, quoting your message (like I'm doing now)
  4. NewFolder's Avatar
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    I know you can get instant e-mail notification for all replies on a watched thread, I already have that enabled.

    What I would like to see is the option to only receive an e-mail if someone replies, quoting you in their message. I know that there is already a feature on TSR telling me who's quoted me, which is useful, but it'd make it more useful if I received an e-mail notification every time someone quoted me in a message.

    At the moment, I am getting a lot of e-mails from TSR because I get one e-mail for every reply (35 in the last 24 hours). It can get annoying. I am completely aware that I can change it to weekly digest, etc, but I would much prefer it if I could switch it to only e-mail when someone quotes me in a reply.

    Is it possible to do this currently? If not, would it be possible for the dev team to consider adding this feature to TSR?
  5. Illusionary's Avatar
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    Re: E-mail notification for quotes
    (Original post by NewFolder)
    I know you can get instant e-mail notification for all replies on a watched thread, I already have that enabled.

    What I would like to see is the option to only receive an e-mail if someone replies, quoting you in their message. I know that there is already a feature on TSR telling me who's quoted me, which is useful, but it'd make it more useful if I received an e-mail notification every time someone quoted me in a message.

    At the moment, I am getting a lot of e-mails from TSR because I get one e-mail for every reply (35 in the last 24 hours). It can get annoying. I am completely aware that I can change it to weekly digest, etc, but I would much prefer it if I could switch it to only e-mail when someone quotes me in a reply.

    Is it possible to do this currently? If not, would it be possible for the dev team to consider adding this feature to TSR?
    I'm almost certain that this would need dev work; it'll be for admin to consider whether the demand justifies working on it. I can see that this could be useful for some.
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