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Hi,
I have a very active forum thread, we're talking 40 pages in one day. Suddenly I started getting warnings from my provider about 100s and 100s of spam emails and it all seem to originate from that thread. I suspect wpforo sends notifications to everyone active in that thread? Do members automatically subscribe to threads they are active in?
Is there a way to prevent this from happening? It's not really sustainable and I assume it also takes a lot of resources from the server.
Thank you
Anyone?
What is this AI bot response? There is no "Features". How do I stop this feature from overloading my website with emails?
wpForo doesn’t send email notifications to members who haven’t subscribed to topics or posts. Not all members in a thread receive notifications—only those who have subscribed.
I’d suggest checking out this FAQ: https://wpforo.com/community/faq/how-to-stop-spam/
Here you can find steps to reduce spam.
@sofy I see. Is there anything you can specifically suggest to do to stop wpforo to send out 500 emails everytime someone posts in a busy thread? Or would the only option be to deactivate notifications altogether? Is that possible?
You can set the posts to go to moderation so that users won’t receive any notifications until they are approved by higher-level users.
@sofy hm, that wouldn't help since these are legit posts. We're running competitions, so getting hundreds of posts per day in the thread. That's a crazy number of notification messages.
Below are the hook codes you can use to disable any type of email notification you want.
add_filter( 'break_wpforo_mention_send_email', '__return_true' ); add_filter( 'break_wpforo_subscriber_send_email_after_add_topic', '__return_true' ); add_filter( 'break_wpforo_subscriber_send_email_after_add_post', '__return_true' ); add_filter( 'break_wpforo_follow_send_email_after_add_topic', '__return_true' ); add_filter( 'break_wpforo_follow_send_email_after_add_post', '__return_true' ); add_filter( 'break_wpforo_send_email', '__return_true' );
The last one prevents wpForo from sending any email notifications to users. The previous ones disable specific types of emails — you can understand their purpose by their names.
