Hi Hayley,

There are indeed multiple different ways to subscribe to forums and threads within a forum.

What you did, like you explained above is subscribing to a forum instance which means you get notifications for ALL posts in a single forum. If it's a busy forum you will definitely get annoyed by all the notifications. To check which forums you subscribed to please head to Profile -> Settings and scroll to the bottom of the page and look for all "Yes"ses, like below :

Make sure you un-subscribe from the forums you get too many notifications from.
My settings are like the image below, so probably looking at what I explained above would already make a good first step. (so looking at the different forums in groups you are member of)

Apart from that in the beginning of your post you refer to not getting notifications you should get from some forum posts, could you please explain what notifications you think you're not getting? Then I can try to help you change some settings.

Hello Lennert Fransen 

Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately the situation is still not resolved. I will try to explain the issue in more detail below, in the hope that you can help:

1. The issue concerns the "SDL Trados Studio" forum in the "Translation Productivity" group. 
2. I sometimes post questions in this forum, so I want to receive an email notification when someone replies to my threads.
3. I do not want to receive notifications when other people create threads in this forum, nor when people reply to those other threads.

My settings are currently as follows:

• I am subscribed to the forum:

• I have unchecked 'Creates threads in forums to which you are subscribed" in all three columns in my notification settings:

Nonetheless, I am still receiving irrelevant email notifications. It would appear that these are all for replies to other people's threads:

Have I missed a setting somewhere?

Hayley

Hello Lennert Fransen 

Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately the situation is still not resolved. I will try to explain the issue in more detail below, in the hope that you can help:

1. The issue concerns the "SDL Trados Studio" forum in the "Translation Productivity" group. 
2. I sometimes post questions in this forum, so I want to receive an email notification when someone replies to my threads.
3. I do not want to receive notifications when other people create threads in this forum, nor when people reply to those other threads.

My settings are currently as follows:

• I am subscribed to the forum:

• I have unchecked 'Creates threads in forums to which you are subscribed" in all three columns in my notification settings:

Nonetheless, I am still receiving irrelevant email notifications. It would appear that these are all for replies to other people's threads:

Have I missed a setting somewhere?

Hayley

Hi Hayley,

Thanks you for your explanation.

Please follow the steps below, your settings are probably the wrong way around.

1. You keep receiving emails because you are subscribed to the whole SDL Trados Studio forum. Your first screenshot, please change Yes to No.
You won't receive irrelevant emails from the Trados Studio forum anymore.

2. In the second screenshot, you can re-check the "'Creates threads in forums to which you are subscribed" because you won't be subscribed any more because of step 1.

3. Once you create a post yourself, you will automatically be subscribed to that single thread and receive notifications/emails, no actions needed

Hopefully this works for you!