# How do I get my (limited) subscriptions back?

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/how-do-i-get-my-limited-subscriptions-back/7203>\
**Category:** Chef Forums Feedback\
**Created:** [October 27, 2015, 11:01pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/how-do-i-get-my-limited-subscriptions-back/7203 "2015-10-27T23:01:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Peter\_Fern](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/peter_fern/32/106_2.png) [@Peter\_Fern](https://discourse.chef.io/u/Peter_Fern)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 11:01pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/how-do-i-get-my-limited-subscriptions-back/7203/1 "2015-10-27T23:01:14Z")

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I believe I was previously only subscribed to chef-dev, however now I appear to be subscribed to everything, as my chef email volume has increased many times over. How do I get back to only receiving mail for the list(s) that I’m meant to be subscribed to?

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**Author:** ![coderanger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/coderanger/32/5_2.png) [@coderanger](https://discourse.chef.io/u/coderanger)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 12:40am UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/how-do-i-get-my-limited-subscriptions-back/7203/2 "2015-10-28T00:40:58Z")

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Sorry for the noise. When we migrated over, there was some miscommunication about how to recreated teh subscription data. I wrote up a guide over on the [FAQ thread](https://discourse.chef.io/t/welcome-to-the-chef-mailing-list/7070) under “How do I unsubscribe from only chef or chef-dev?”. The short version is to go into your user preferences and un-check the “send me an email for every new post” option and then go to the chef-dev category page and set it to “Watching” so you’ll be emailed only of new posts in that category. Sorry again for the trouble!

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**Author:** ![Edward\_Morbius](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/edward_morbius/32/658_2.png) [@Edward\_Morbius](https://discourse.chef.io/u/Edward_Morbius)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 2:39am UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/how-do-i-get-my-limited-subscriptions-back/7203/3 "2015-10-28T02:39:56Z")

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Problem I’m encountering is that, having newly migrated to an Android Tablet, my Gmail filter settings appear to be utterly unavailable to me. I’m getting hammered with what used to be chef-user posts which crippled Tablet email clients really don’t let me deal with (cannot view headers, cannot fix filters, etc., etc., etc.)

All of which are going to my primary inbox, triggering dozens of notifications daily.

It’s making _both_ the list(s) _and_ gmail utterly unusable.

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**Author:** ![coderanger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/coderanger/32/5_2.png) [@coderanger](https://discourse.chef.io/u/coderanger)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 2:45am UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/how-do-i-get-my-limited-subscriptions-back/7203/4 "2015-10-28T02:45:51Z")

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@Edward_Morbius Were you also trying to only subscribe to chef-dev? I can try to set it up for you as an admin. I know I can at least disable the “email for all setting” if that helps.

As for setting up new filters, if you were using the `List-Id` then you’ll have to update those. The new IDs are `chef.discourse.chef.io`, `chef-dev.discourse.chef.io`, and `chef-forums-feedback.discourse.chef.io`. If you were using a subject filter, that should still work as before except for the new Feedback category.

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**Author:** ![Peter\_Fern](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/peter_fern/32/106_2.png) [@Peter\_Fern](https://discourse.chef.io/u/Peter_Fern)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 3:12am UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/how-do-i-get-my-limited-subscriptions-back/7203/5 "2015-10-28T03:12:41Z")

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> [@coderanger](#):
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> When we migrated over, there was some miscommunication about how to recreated teh subscription data.

Hasn't everything been migrated twice now? Surely these subscriptions could have been scripted pretty easily... I'll go and do this work, but it should be obvious that the amplification of effort when _each user_ has to make these changes is enormous versus the effort for a single person to write the migration script correctly.

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**Author:** ![Edward\_Morbius](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/edward_morbius/32/658_2.png) [@Edward\_Morbius](https://discourse.chef.io/u/Edward_Morbius)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 3:29am UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/how-do-i-get-my-limited-subscriptions-back/7203/6 "2015-10-28T03:29:35Z")

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chef-user only AFAIR.

Again: a considerable chunk of the problem is Google’s utterly borked, server-side-only, hidden-from-any-reasonable-view, filtering options.

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**Author:** ![Edward\_Morbius](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/edward_morbius/32/658_2.png) [@Edward\_Morbius](https://discourse.chef.io/u/Edward_Morbius)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 3:34am UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/how-do-i-get-my-limited-subscriptions-back/7203/7 "2015-10-28T03:34:30Z")

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…and on filtering: I _know_ what I can filter on. And if I could set up client-side filters with procmail, I’d have done it already. I’ve accepted Google’s effed-up silo, and am stuck with Google’s effed-up tools.

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**Author:** ![coderanger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/coderanger/32/5_2.png) [@coderanger](https://discourse.chef.io/u/coderanger)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 5:27am UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/how-do-i-get-my-limited-subscriptions-back/7203/8 "2015-10-28T05:27:12Z")

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@Edward_Morbius I’ve switched your subscription settings so you should only get notifications about threads in the chef category or when you are explicitly at-mentioned (like here). Hope that helps!

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**Author:** ![Edward\_Morbius](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/edward_morbius/32/658_2.png) [@Edward\_Morbius](https://discourse.chef.io/u/Edward_Morbius)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 6:36am UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/how-do-i-get-my-limited-subscriptions-back/7203/9 "2016-03-03T06:36:39Z")

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Finally have bandwidth to deal with this, apologies for the late delay.

Purge my account from anything to do with chef or Discourse. I'm  
revoking any rights for you to have, store, copy, or distribute any  
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exception:

Put this email on a "do not email, ever, under any circumstances"  
status, however implemented.

You may, personally, respond to this email to verify completion of these  
requests.

I'll be instituting a block for all Discourse domains following receipt  
of same, or within one week (March 10, 2016).

I could run down all the ways this transition was a complete and total  
failure, but really, that's not my job. I'm hugely unimpressed by Jeff  
Attwood's ability to evoke technical competence from his team.

on 05:27 Wed 28 Oct, coderanger ([noreply@chef.discourse.org](mailto:noreply@chef.discourse.org)) wrote:

> @Edward_Morbius I've switched your subscription settings so you should only get notifications about threads in the chef category or when you are explicitly at-mentioned (like here). Hope that helps!
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> Posted by coderanger on 10/28/2015
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**Author:** ![coderanger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/coderanger/32/5_2.png) [@coderanger](https://discourse.chef.io/u/coderanger)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2016, 6:55am UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/how-do-i-get-my-limited-subscriptions-back/7203/10 "2016-03-03T06:55:05Z")

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