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Email received for each topic in the forum: how do I stop them?
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Giovanna
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Jan 24, 2017 - 5:25 am

I am going to cry soon... I did what you suggested, then I went into a post for which I have been receving email notifications. I wrote a reply asking my forum people to reply to it. Then I receive an email that there's a new post in the forum for me... mine! I scanned all the forum users and I do not have any other, although I did in the past. Could the problem be there? Maybe the system somehow remembers a deleted user? I don't know anymore what to think...

My forum (in Italian) is: MsPforum

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Yellow Swordfish
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Jan 24, 2017 - 5:51 am

If you are getting emails about posts you have made yourself then it does sound like a second account that is still active. 

So - you say you did have a second user account - how did you delete it? Did you do it through the WordPress admin - Users? 

Do you have easy access to your database? If so it might be worth looking in the 'sfmembers' table to see if there is a widowed row for the second user account. If there is - don't delete it yet...

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Giovanna
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Jan 24, 2017 - 6:07 am

Andy,

I used to have more users yes and no, I don't remember how I deleted them, if from the WP User list or from the Forum User list, for sure if I did the latter I would have checked the first too to make sure the user was gone from WP too.

I went from the admin panel of the blog to phpMyAdmin but I only see the WP tables, users included, and there are only the current users. I cannot find sfmembers. I can access the files of the blog though, through Filezilla... any use? Sorry but I am not too prepared about the database behind the blog...

Having said that, is there any way to rebuild the forum somehow?

My forum (in Italian) is: MsPforum

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Yellow Swordfish
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Jan 24, 2017 - 6:19 am

I should have said that the 'sfmembers' table is prefixed with your WordPress table prefix. So if you used the default it would be 'wp_sfmembers'.

No - there are no rebuild options in either Simple:Press or WordPress.

The second, widowed user record is all I can think of. If you DO find one then for now we just need the User_ID.

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Giovanna
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Jan 24, 2017 - 6:22 am

Andy another thing which may be important: the email I receive is from the Forum to another active user in the forum (which I guess subscribed to the post itself), as there was an option to send any subcription email also to me as admin... Am I clear? Or I can make some screenshot to explain better. Sorry I noticed this only now...

My forum (in Italian) is: MsPforum

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Giovanna
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Jan 24, 2017 - 6:24 am

and yes, I found the sfmembers table but no, there are no other users than the current active ones...

My forum (in Italian) is: MsPforum

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Yellow Swordfish
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Jan 24, 2017 - 6:30 am

I do not understand 'there was an option to send any subscription email also to me as admin'.
I am not aware of any such option....

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Giovanna
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Jan 24, 2017 - 6:40 am

I am not aware either, that's why I asked 😀

I think I need to explain better what I saw. Let's say I am user "admin" and I have member "goofy".

Admin is not subcribed to any topic or forum or other.

Admin creates a new topic.

Admin receives an emai that notify that a new post has been created in the forum. In the email the From is the forum itself, the To is the email of member "goofy"

So I was wondering if there's somewhere an option that configures an automatic forward of all outgoing emails to the admin...

My forum (in Italian) is: MsPforum

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Yellow Swordfish
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Jan 24, 2017 - 6:44 am

It sounds top me like Goofy is using your email address. Possible?

Go to Goofy's popup forum profile. As the forum admin it will show the email address that is assigned to Goofy so you can check it out.

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Giovanna
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Jan 24, 2017 - 6:45 am

I just found some more options in the Subscriptions plugin. I have a tick on the daily digest. Could that be the culprit?

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