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I've gotten reports of too many emails coming into users filtering based on tags.  http://answers.ros.org/question/238/correct-settings-for-rosanswers-email 
 
 
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        Ok, will look into test cases. Correctness of email alerts so far has been the hardest problem! There are very many combinations of settings to test.
      
 
 Evgeny's avatar Evgeny (14 years ago)   
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
 
 @Benoit, do you have this issue on your site? I know you use the "only selected tags" filter for your users.
      
 
 Evgeny's avatar Evgeny (14 years ago)   
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
 

        The only oddity I have seen is a few times someone has no interesting tags set, but they still get the occasional email.
      
 
 Benoit's avatar Benoit (14 years ago)   
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
 

        I have setup my account to onlly email "entire forum" "instant" "only selected tags" and I have 3 tags selected.  I'm getting emails with unrelated tags.  Out of the 60 questions I've been emailed by askbot a quick read through suggests that 6 of them match my tag queries.  Most are completely unreleated.  
      
 
 tfoote's avatar tfoote (14 years ago)   
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
 

        Signed up like you on answers.ros.org - getting many emails on comments, even though I do not have a single interesting tag. Do you get emails on questions or answers as well?
      
 
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Please give a shot to the latest version - available both at github and PyPi.
 
The getter function for the subscribers on instant notifications for the comments did not have a tag filter, added now.
 
 
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        Great thanks.  I'll try to update early next week.  
      
 
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        Initial tests with 0.6.74 show that at least 1 correctly went through and one was correctly filtered out.  
      
 
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        Ok, seems like there is a chance that it works. I will turn on my instant subscription again (killed it after a few hundred spam messages :). Btw, I met someone from your community at the poster section, unfortunately I did not even ask what is his name - I am pretty bad sometimes in real-time communication, especially when there are 5 or so people talking at once.
      
 
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