# How to force all Discourse notifications via e-mail?
**URL:** https://forum.syncthing.net/t/how-to-force-all-discourse-notifications-via-e-mail/17836
**Category:** Meta
**Created:** [January 8, 2022, 4:29pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/how-to-force-all-discourse-notifications-via-e-mail/17836 "2022-01-08T16:29:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 19
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### Author:  [@acolomb](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/acolomb)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2022, 11:10am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/how-to-force-all-discourse-notifications-via-e-mail/17836/21 "2022-01-09T11:10:37Z")
Okay, those were very valuable pointers. Especially the link in the error message. I submitted a request to remove the IP from that blocking list now. Hope it will get acted upon soon.
Note: [kasserver.com](http://kasserver.com) is the domain and e-mail service provider I use for my domain to which the Github e-mail address belongs. That’s the same one I use here on discourse.
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### Author:  [@calmh](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/calmh)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2022, 11:22am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/how-to-force-all-discourse-notifications-via-e-mail/17836/22 "2022-01-09T11:22:42Z")
In the meantime mail was blocked again due to bounces, so yell when it might be fixed and I’ll reset.
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### Author:  [@acolomb](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/acolomb)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2022, 6:19pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/how-to-force-all-discourse-notifications-via-e-mail/17836/23 "2022-01-09T18:19:11Z")
I received a confirmation from the provider that the IP has been unblocked. Please retry @calmh.
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### Author:  [@calmh](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/calmh)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2022, 7:38pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/how-to-force-all-discourse-notifications-via-e-mail/17836/24 "2022-01-09T19:38:34Z")
I reset your bounce score.
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### Author:  [@acolomb](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/acolomb)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2022, 8:14pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/how-to-force-all-discourse-notifications-via-e-mail/17836/25 "2022-01-09T20:14:19Z")
Great, thanks. This exact message did get notified by e-mail. So glad we could work out the root cause, now let’s hope it stays that way for some time.
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### Author:  [@acolomb](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/acolomb)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2022, 11:15pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/how-to-force-all-discourse-notifications-via-e-mail/17836/26 "2022-01-18T23:15:48Z")
@calmh it happened again a few days ago. Not receiving any e-mails from the forum. Can you please check the logs again what IP it’s barking at this time (if different)?
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### Author:  [@calmh](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/calmh)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2022, 5:47am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/how-to-force-all-discourse-notifications-via-e-mail/17836/27 "2022-01-19T05:47:35Z")
It’s the same IP, I don’t think it changes unless something major gets rebuilt mailgun-side.
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### Author:  [@acolomb](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/acolomb)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2022, 9:49am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/how-to-force-all-discourse-notifications-via-e-mail/17836/28 "2022-01-19T09:49:50Z")
```
Hello Mr Colomb,
our spam protection system detected a lot of spam mails originating from this ip address. Thats the reason why it was blocked again.
We can´t whitelist a ip which permanently sends spam.
The administrator of this ip has to secure the system. Then we won´t block it again.
with best regards
Daniel Lehmann
Supportteam
Neue Medien Münnich
- Inhaber René Münnich -
Hauptstraße 68, D-02742 Friedersdorf
Ust-ID: DE212657916
Tel: +49 35872 353-10
Fax: +49 35872 353-30
E-Mail: info@all-inkl.com
Web: www.all-inkl.com
```
What to do now? 🤷♂️
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### Author:  [@bt90](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/bt90)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2022, 5:07pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/how-to-force-all-discourse-notifications-via-e-mail/17836/29 "2022-01-19T17:07:53Z")
I’d set up a relay mail account.
OT: who the hell blocks mailgun? IMHO you’re dodging a bullet by moving to Hetzner/Strato in the long run. I would avoid those smaller german providers but YMMV.
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### Author:  [@calmh](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/calmh)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2022, 8:35pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/how-to-force-all-discourse-notifications-via-e-mail/17836/30 "2022-01-19T20:35:37Z")
Well I’m not precisely _shocked_ if there is spam coming through mailgun. But from my point of view it is what it is. Not my circus, not my monkeys, we need to send email somehow.
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### Author:  [@acolomb](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/acolomb)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2022, 7:15pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/how-to-force-all-discourse-notifications-via-e-mail/17836/31 "2022-01-22T19:15:16Z")
Maybe mailgun has some degrees of freedom to route traffic from this site through a different IP? In case they operate several servers…
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### Author:  [@calmh](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/calmh)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2022, 9:00pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/how-to-force-all-discourse-notifications-via-e-mail/17836/32 "2022-01-22T21:00:01Z")
There is something like that if you’re on an expensive premium plan, which we’re unfortunately not.
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### Author:  [@acolomb](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/acolomb)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2022, 11:01pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/how-to-force-all-discourse-notifications-via-e-mail/17836/33 "2022-02-07T23:01:33Z")
After a few weeks without e-mail notifications, I tried again to contact my mail / hosting provider. Their official stance is that in order to unblock the IP address permanently, Mailgun would need to reach out to them and clarify the situation. I tried to explain who the stakeholders are here and that I pay them to make e-mail work, which they broke.
Now you @calmh probably are paying Mailgun for the service, so I guess if you contacted them, it would possibly lead to some activity to get the IP unblocked. Can you ask them please? Best pointer would be the URL in the bounce messages probably, and in addition the [abuse@all-inkl.com](mailto:abuse@all-inkl.com) contact address.
Sorry for the trouble, though I feel quite innocent and didn’t expect that the two of us as paying customers would need to suffer from two companies’ blocking policy wars.
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### Author:  [@tomasz86](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/tomasz86)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2022, 1:45pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/how-to-force-all-discourse-notifications-via-e-mail/17836/34 "2022-02-17T13:45:16Z")
@acolomb Has anything changed regarding the spam block or are you still unable to receive notifications?
This may or may not be useful to you, but I’ve recently found out that you can use RSS to subscribe to Discourse forums. I think it can at least serve as a substitute for e-mail notifications. It works by adding `.rss` to the URL, e.g. [https://forum.syncthing.net/latest.rss](https://forum.syncthing.net/latest.rss) or [https://forum.syncthing.net/posts.rss](https://forum.syncthing.net/posts.rss). If you use an email client like Thunderbird, as I do, you can keep both emails and feeds in one place.
RSS can also be faster (if you set a short refresh interval), because Discourse email notifications seem to always come delayed by 10 minutes 😉.
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### Author:  [@calmh](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/calmh)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2022, 3:05pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/how-to-force-all-discourse-notifications-via-e-mail/17836/35 "2022-02-17T15:05:53Z")
As a late reply to the above, I don’t think we have the kind of plan that comes with anything resembling human support, no. But if you want to give it a try, send them a mail. Our account is identified by the sending domain, [mg.syncthing.org](http://mg.syncthing.org).
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### Author:  [@acolomb](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/acolomb)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2022, 9:28pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/how-to-force-all-discourse-notifications-via-e-mail/17836/36 "2022-02-17T21:28:06Z")
Well, for now it just started to work again a few days ago. Dunno if you had to unblock it in Discourse again, or if the ban there somehow expires. At least the IP blocking seems loosened for the moment. Will try to reach out to mailgun when it happens again. Thanks for the pointer.
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### Author:  [@acolomb](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/acolomb)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2022, 9:34pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/how-to-force-all-discourse-notifications-via-e-mail/17836/37 "2022-02-17T21:34:29Z")
That’s actually an interesting idea to use the RSS feed. I usually read those on mobile using Feedly as an aggregator and Palabre as the reader app. That setup doesn’t give me push notifications (which is perfect for my feeds usage pattern). But at this on the PC / laptop where Thunderbird is usually running anyway, it could be a solution. Of course anything that syncs read status among devices is best, which Discourse itself already does but cannot mark the mails or feed entries of course. So right now, I’m trying to get used to a pull model using mostly just the web interface.
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### Author:  [@tomasz86](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/tomasz86)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2022, 9:44pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/how-to-force-all-discourse-notifications-via-e-mail/17836/38 "2022-02-17T21:44:07Z")
> [@acolomb](#):
>
> But at this on the PC / laptop where Thunderbird is usually running anyway, it could be a solution. Of course anything that syncs read status among devices is best, which Discourse itself already does but cannot mark the mails or feed entries of course.
Some may considered this a “hack” 🤪, but if you use IMAP in Thunderbird for your email, you can set up a filter that automatically moves all new RSS feeds to your email account inbox. There, you can mark them as read as you wish. This works, because Thunderbird uses the same file format for emails and feeds.
Obviously, this method won’t work with local POP3 accounts and you’ll also need to keep Thunderbird open and running 24/7 to have everything always synchronised, but I think it could be a useful alternative nevertheless 🙂.
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### Author:  [@monero-money](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/monero-money)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2025, 11:17am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/how-to-force-all-discourse-notifications-via-e-mail/17836/39 "2025-12-27T11:17:34Z")
> [@calmh](#):
>
> There _is_ a mailing list mode where you can request to get every post as an individual email, and somehow attempt to parse incoming mail into forum posts; this has been disabled since roughly forever as we’re already with just the summary emails close to 10 thousand emails per month, which is the limit where sending email starts to get serious and costs money and whatnot. (And we’ve never attempted to set up incoming email.) (And I certainly don’t intend to, not that you asked for this.)
Is this still the case? I am also an email-centric user, and I follow lots of Discourse forums via the “mailing list mode” – much more ergonomic than to log-in to different forums on web browsers (I use ephemeral web browsers, meaning, my web browser deletes everything after I close it, so logging in every time to Discourse forums a hassle).
Would you re-consider allowing mailing list mode for this forum?
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