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Someone contacted me by email but my email is not public

Last week I got an email to my email address saying "I saw on Stack Overflow that you were interested in.." and the content of the question I asked. The email suggested I'll star a bug \ feature ...
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Can we get the email address of the logged user with a client script?

I need to find the email address of the logged user on the StackOverflow using a client script. Is the email address stored in cookies or localStorage? I don't see it. What is the best solution to ...
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Incorrect email address in account recovery mail

I have an email address "[email protected]", but when I try to recover my account I receive mail with incorrect address: Someone requested an account recovery on Stack Overflow for [email protected], but ...
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OS X Mail/iOS Mail adds lots of padding to notification e-mails

My notification e-mails look great on the Gmail web version, but they aren't so nice on the OS X mail app, or on iOS. When I look at them, there is a lot of extra padding on the top and bottom parts, ...
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How can I get an e-mail as soon as I get an answer [duplicate]

I would like to know how to get an e-mail as soon as I recieve an answer. Thank you.
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Emails from community at stackexchange use markdown

Markdown does not work in emails, so you should probably not use it in them. The email is still readable and the links work, they're just not at the place where you'd expect them to be.
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Mark inbox item as read when reaching its relevant post from email

Suppose someone has answered my question, I got notification in my email and clicked the email link to get to the answer. When doing this, I see there's still a notification in the top bar. Can the ...
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How do I change the email address of my Stack Exchange/Stack Overflow account? [duplicate]

The email provider of my old email address is gone. My old email address is no longer valid (in fact, I guess the new domain holder will now control that). However, I originally registered my ...
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Should the “bounty ending soon” email contain a link to the question? [duplicate]

I have found questions complaining and status-completed that the text should be different when there are no answers, questions objecting to even getting emails when bounties are expiring, complaints ...
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Filter e-mail links to deleted question

I am subscribed to new questions in the "model-theory" tag on Maths.SE. So today, I got an e-mail with a single new question: ...
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Plaintext notification emails do not link to questions

This is what the text/plain part of a notification email looks like: The following items were added to your Stack Exchange global inbox since you last checked it on 2013-09-17: Sep, 17 Cannot ...
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Bounty notification doesn’t show title

I don’t recall putting a bounty on … \… and what about it, anyways? That’s a fragment. We should consider revising it.
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Email states that my bounty has ended, when it clearly has not

Something is wrong with when these emails are getting sent, I think. Perhaps a time zone, or DST bug? I got an email at 3:02 stating that the bounty had ended (and got a notification in my SE ...
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Images broken in Stack Overflow emails

Seems to be related to this question, but I see that it's from 2011, so reporting again. The images in Stack Overflow notification emails are broken. See the screen shot bellow: The link to ...
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Have not received expected automatic support email — did my query reach support?

I submitted a support query using this form about 50-60 minutes ago and it said I should receive an email "shortly"... There is no email in my inbox or spam folders. Does that mean support didn't ...
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Careers job application feedback

After applying for a job on careers.stackoverflow, I got an automatic email and that's it. Is there a transparent known process that follows this action or is it just an ad-hoc one that depends on the ...
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How can I change the email address for my logins in Stack Exchange? [duplicate]

I want to change the email address that I am using to sign in using the Stack Exchange. I tried editing and updating my email address on my profile and saving the changes to all my accounts. Then, I ...
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Careers 2.0 email subject lines should include applicant name

Without the applicant name all the message updates from Careers 2.0 have the same subject. Gmail then groups all these emails together which is super annoying to find the coherent conversation with ...
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Leaderboard email sent under incorrect circumstances

This morning, as I checked my email, I noticed the following friendly email in my inbox: Hello, I just wanted to drop you a note to thank you for participating in the ongoing beta of ...
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Improving the HTML of the email notifications

The HTML emails I receive from Stackexchange notifying me about a new item in my inbox have some issues: the HTML is faulty. The W3c Validator also shows several errors, some of them trivial, some ...
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Subscribing to tags - changing the email

I log into SE with my Google Mail account, and I regularly get updates of the form "2 new items in your Stack Exchange inbox" to that account. That's great. However, when I try to subscribe to a ...
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Immediate inbox notifications I can get on my mobile

There's been some old discussions here and here about receiving immediate emails when your inbox has new messages, and some reasons were given why not to do this (spamming, people will stop using the ...
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Remove underline from hyperlinks in tag filter emails

Maybe I'm just being OCD, but can the underlining of the filter emails be removed? It is a lot more readable and looks a lot better to me without underlining, and it's not like it's difficult to tell ...
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Is my account available when yahoo.com.cn email service shutdown?

as yahoo.com.cn email service will shutdown in the coming future, I use yahoo.com.cn email to register my stackoverflow account, so I want to know if my account will be available or not after ...
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Stackoverflow is not sending notification emails

I have an SO account and I have signed up using Google login. Now earlier I posted a question, and I did not receive any email notification for when either someone commented on it or when someone ...
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New email filter option: questions unanswered for __ hours/days

I'd like an option in email filters to specify unanswered for __ hours/days. Currently I get email about questions which are already answered by the time I look at them. So I'm never able to help on ...
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Password-change email could be more helpful

Having changed my Stack Exchange password today, I noticed that the confirmation email includes the text: If you didn't do this, you should be worried. Whilst this is perfectly true and valid, ...
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Password-change email has a broken link

I changed my Stack Exchange password today and received a confirmation email with a link to "your Stack Exchange account" (https://openid.stackexchange.com/user) that, if you're not logged in, returns ...
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Careers 2.0 invitation to email address I'm not using with SO - where from?

I just got an email titled "Expanding your Reputation" to my work email address - which, IIRC, I never used on any Stack Exchange site. The email body starts with In recognition of your contributions ...
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How can I see email address of other users on Stack Overflow? [duplicate]

Often I ask some question and someone provides very useful answers. So when I ask a similar question, I want to have that person answer it. Or I have an additional question to discuss with him/her. ...
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Changing my e-mail address doesn't work

The title doesn't fully cover the problem; on SO, I can change my e-mail by editing my profile, but it won't let me login with it. It tells me no account is associated with that particular address. ...
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Cannot remove email from my profile page

It seems that I'm unable to persistently remove my email address from my profile pages. Initially removing my email address works fine, I simply visit my profile page on any site associated with my ...
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[email protected] should reply to mails with a “This mailbox is not monitored”

An appreciative user of the Careers 2.0 service, I've failed a user design hurdle that I feel could be improved. Email interactions on the service are being sent to my Gmail account. I responded ...
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Changing email on an account to be merged changed SO subscription accounts

I changed my email on my Academia account that was connected to my StackExchange profile (to my OzEmail account) so I could save the change needed to allow it to be merged with a manual account with ...
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my logins duplicates login id, why?

The "my logins" section of my user profile shows the same email twice. I have "remove" option for both. When I removed one, both were removed and I had to resign up I guess to get back to SO. Is ...
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Respond to employers on Careers 2.0 via email

I think it would be a valuable feature to be able to reply to emails from employers on Careers 2.0 via email. I have Careers send me an email notification with the message contents every time I get a ...
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e-mail servers use wrong hostname

Currently, the e-mail servers trying to deliver mail from stackexchange to my address appear to sit behind 69.59.196.221: Dec 18 21:33:56 avalon postfix/smtpd[1132]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from ...
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Cannot update my profile - email in use?

I'm having the same problem from this thread. Even though it is said the issue was addressed, whenever I try to update my profile, it says my email is already registered. I had an OpenID associated ...
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Careers 2.0 mocking my poor answers

I just got an email from Careers 2.0: We're impressed by your "r" tag answers on Stack Overflow. I've written two answers, with 0 and 1 upvotes. Maybe the algorithm should be tweaked so it's a ...
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Email account going to get removed

My email account for this account is going to get removed at the end of this week, as it is my school account and I'm leaving school. I would like it be changed to another email address, but I have ...
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Change registered email for SE account

Is it possible to change the registered email for a StackExchange account so that you can use a new email for login? I have tried to change the email that is in my profile (as shown in picture) but ...
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Do not include own questions in mails from subscribed tags

When you subscribe to a tag you get mail about new questions for that tag. If you yourself write a question with a tag you are subscribed to this question will be included in mail updates about that ...
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Possible to ask a question by e-mail? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: post question by email Can I ask my questions by sending an email? I can post to my Blogger stream using a "key" embedded in the address or body of the e-mail, could I ...
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New [tag] questions for [date] email script stuck?

I'm getting the same email again and again from Android enthusiasts today, I think there's a looping script somewhere in your system. The email is: 1 new question in samsung-gt-i9000 filter on ...
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post question by email

I want to be able to ask a question by sending an email to some special email address for stack overflow. I have found this convinient in other situations like google groups, blogging and facebook ...
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As central points of contact for a site, can moderators get a stack exchange email address?

I have seen the prior question - but it didn't focus on what I would see as the value to each site, and by inference, the wider SE network: As a representative of a site, possibly connecting with ...
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What does “Allow email notifications when I subscribe to questions or tags” mean? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: E-Mail Notifications in StackOverflow This option is found in the preferences section of the user profile. Additionally, how do you subscribe to a question or a tag?
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Feature Request: Option to send all subscription results in one email

After subscribing to a number of topics on stackoverflow.com, I now get numerous emails, each having questions related to one topic. Is there a way I can receive one combined email containing all ...
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Do accounts need email addresses to be deletable?

A recently deleted question about account deletion (meta 10k only) included some unresolved discussion about the requirements to delete an account that was cut short when the question was deleted. ...
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Email and Username inconsistencies on StackExchange.com

EDIT: Looks like the miraculous return of this bug, which was apparently fixed over a year ago. (Reported partially before, but mistakenly marked status-bydesign) I recently changed my username ...

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