[Solved] How to stop email notifications from gitlab.archlinux.org

ugjka · 2025-09-19 03:43:58

Posted this on the mailing list and it has been a week and no one has responded, so posting it here

mailing list wrote:

Hello,
There was a time I wanted all gitlab activity sent to my email, so i set
Preferences => Notifications => Global notification level => Custom (to the
activities I was interested)
Now times have changed and I no longer have to the time to catch up with
thousands of emails a week.
So i tried setting the activity level to "Participate" which should only
notify about things I'm involved in somehow, like issues I've commented on or
things I've explicitly set to be notified about. But I still receive emails
about issues created mostly by Bumpbuddy (and some others). Like hundred
emails a day.
Also ticking and unticking "Receive notifications about your own activity'
doesn't seem to change anything either.
I also tried to set the global notification level to "Disabled" which should
kill all emails as it says but even that has no effect either.
If I do a search on issues " Subscribed = Explicitly subscribed", I only get 1
closed issue.
So I believe something is broken, because I haven't explicitly subscribed to
anything that much, so the global setting shouldn't be bypassed.
ugjka

Last edited by ugjka (2025-09-19 15:51:44)

seth · 2025-09-19 08:31:49

Have you tried editing the custom settings?

ugjka · 2025-09-19 09:50:35

seth wrote:

Have you tried editing the custom settings?

I did, no change

seth · 2025-09-19 15:13:55

=> https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … e/-/issues ?
Though you made sure the mails are coming from gitlab directly and not some other service?

ugjka · 2025-09-19 15:30:12

seth wrote:

=> https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … e/-/issues ?
Though you made sure the mails are coming from gitlab directly and not some other service?

Yea example from ""? Bumpbuddy ? (@bumpbuddy)" <gitlab@gitlab.archlinux.org>"

seth · 2025-09-19 15:39:27

'key, last guess: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/help/user/ … cations.md
You can configure global notifications but also for projects and groups etc. - maybe you originally changed several layers?

ugjka · 2025-09-19 15:44:35

Dear god, that was it. I had custom notification layer on https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging.

Marking as solved, and thank you!

Last edited by ugjka (2025-09-19 15:56:53)

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#1 2025-09-19 03:43:58

[Solved] How to stop email notifications from gitlab.archlinux.org

#2 2025-09-19 08:31:49

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