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Peter Nitschke
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Tuesday, December 21, 2004 - 08:08 am, by:  Peter Nitschke

What is Email Notification in my profile?

Email Notification allows you to get notified of new posts to specific Topic groups, or replies to your own posts etc.

This feature is only available to Registered users.

You may configure your account to send out new messages on the boards as e-mail messages to your address. This is the best way to stay up to date on new messages and conversations taking place online, without having to visit the forum each time. If your e-mail client allows you to read messages off line, receiving posts in e-mail means you can also browse through new posts off line. This function is called 'Automatic E-Mail Notification' (as a clarification, the e-mail messages do contain the full text of the posts; they do not simply notify you that a post has been made).

To configure E-Mail Notification:

1. Go to the Profile Editor to edit your profile. Enter your username and password when prompted, to enter your profile editor page.

2. Scroll down to the section entitled 'E-Mail Notification'. Here you will find two tables: the first containing a list of topics (major sections of the message boards) on SoarerCentral to which you have access. The second table contains additional options.

3. In the first table, place a tick in the boxes of all those topics for which you wish to receive new posts as e-mail messages.

New messages posted in all of the threads under a given topic will be sent to your e-mail address if you select that topic for e-mail notification. You may always return to the Profile Editor and change these settings at any time if you wish to disable e-mail notification for certain topics or altogether.

4. In the second table, three options are available that apply to the E-Mail Notification settings for your account:

Tick My own posts if you wish to receive e-mail messages containing posts that you make to the board. This is a helpful feature if you wish to keep a record of your own contributions.

Tick Replies to my posts if you wish to receive e-mail versions of posts made in direct response to a message you posted to the board. This feature overrides the topic selection setting from the first table (i.e., if you have chosen not to receive e-mail notification for a certain topic, but you have selected the 'Replies to my posts' option and posted a message to that topic, you will receive e-mail notification of replies to your message). Note: If you have this option selected, you will receive only the first response to messages you posted in topics for which you do not have general e-mail notification enabled: you will not continue to receive ongoing discussion via e-mail.

Tick Send e-mail notification as HTML text rather than plain text if you wish e-mail versions of message board posts to be formatted as HTML e-mails, rather than plain-text. It is strongly recommended that you select this option. You should only de-select it (i.e., opt for plain-text messages) if you find that your e-mail client does not support HTML messages: several features of the e-mail messages are lost in plain-text format.

5. Click the Save Profile Changes button to save your changes. Your new email notification settings will take effect immediately for all future posts.

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