# How to use this forum as a mailing list

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There are two ways to use this forum as a mailing list, you can either:

- Subscribe to the whole forum (and mute any sections or threads that do not interest you)
- Subscribe to individual sections

You can reply via email (any posts made by email are shown a little email icon towards the top right of those posts). When replying by email, please do not [hard wrap](https://www.arp242.net/email-wrapping.html).

**How to subscribe to the whole forum**

- Go to your preferences
- Scroll down to ‘Email’
- Check “Send me an email for every new post unless I mute the topic or category (Mailing list mode)”

**How to subscribe to individual sections**

- Go to the section you want to subscribe to
- Click on the bell icon in the top right hand side
- Select ‘Watching’ if you want to subscribe to **every post** made in that category, or
- Select ‘Watch first post only’ if you only want to be alerted to **new threads** posted in that category

## Alternatives to using the mailing-list modes

There are a couple of alternatives to using the mailing-list modes.

**Standard forum use and auto-tracking of topics**

By using the forum online you automatically get subscribed to any threads you participate in. So, if a new reply I posted in one of these threads, and you haven’t logged in in the past 15 minutes, the system will send you en email notifying you of the reply.

**Email Digests**

You can also get the system to send you an email digest after a period of inactivity, look for the `When I don't visit here, send an email digest of what's new:` in your settings.

The options are:

- every 30 mins
- hourly
- daily
- every three days
- weekly (default)
- every two weeks