{"id":9378,"date":"2026-06-05T18:56:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T18:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=9378"},"modified":"2026-06-05T22:51:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T22:51:49","slug":"suppress-automatic-emails","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/knowledge-base\/suppress-automatic-emails\/","title":{"rendered":"Suppress Automatic eMails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new feature in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/knowledge-base\/ip-blocking-and-banning-dialog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>IP blocking<\/strong><\/a> dialog now allows adding selected entries (a User Account or email, a Base Station, or an IP)\u00a0 to a special list that will NEVER be sent any automated eMail when a problem is detected with that connection.\u00a0 Other routine email to that user (or base station owner) is not affected.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9375 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/NoAutoEmailButton.png?_t=1780685671\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/NoAutoEmailButton.png 560w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/NoAutoEmailButton-300x139.png 300w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/NoAutoEmailButton-50x23.png 50w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/NoAutoEmailButton-320x149.png 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is accessed with the <strong>Never Auto-Email\u2026<\/strong>\u00a0 button in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/knowledge-base\/ip-blocking-and-banning-dialog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>IP Ban Setting<\/strong><\/a> dialog.<\/p>\n<p>Using this feature requires both a <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong><em>Pro <\/em><\/strong><\/span>model of <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP <\/strong><\/span>and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/knowledge-base\/sending-email-from-snip\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Email Plug-In<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 A dialog with a list of the entries as well as the number of times eMail was suppressed for each entry (and the last date this was done) is displayed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/NoAutoEmail.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9374 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/NoAutoEmail.png?_t=1780685671\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/NoAutoEmail.png 700w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/NoAutoEmail-300x214.png 300w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/NoAutoEmail-50x36.png 50w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/NoAutoEmail-600x429.png 600w, https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/NoAutoEmail-320x229.png 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the above image there are 29 entries, shown sorted by the number of times the function has been used. You can use this to decide when\/if an entry should be removed (when abuse of your Caster has ceased) and to keep track of the worst offenders.<\/p>\n<p>You can disable this function by un-checking the <strong>Enable<\/strong> checkbox.<\/p>\n<p>You can add new items (Base Stations, User Accounts, or IPs) \u00a0as needed using the middle section and the Ass button.<\/p>\n<p>You can right-click on any entry to<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>remove that entry, or<\/li>\n<li>to reset its count value, or<\/li>\n<li>to copy it to the clipboard.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Selecting one of the radio buttons will preload the combo box with entries of that type (unless there are hundreds of such entries making the list too large to display).<\/p>\n<p>This is a powerful tool if you do not have full control over who your end users may be (typically a public Caster of some sort).<\/p>\n<p>The use case for this feature is very narrow.\u00a0 Normally you would just block a User Account, a Base Station, or an IP from\u00a0 making a successful\u00a0 connection to the Caster in the other existing ways. But if the user has provided a bad email, or the IP which is being used constantly changes (from DCHP etc.), these other ways fail to fully address the problem and result in the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>SNIP<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0operator getting annoying bounced emails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new feature in the IP blocking dialog now allows adding selected entries (a User Account or email, a Base Station, or an IP)\u00a0 to a special list that will NEVER be sent any automated eMail when a problem is detected with that connection.\u00a0 Other routine email to that user [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[112,283],"ht-kb-tag":[487],"class_list":["post-9378","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-general","ht_kb_category-managing-user-accounts","ht_kb_tag-email"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/9378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9378"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/9378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9391,"href":"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/9378\/revisions\/9391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=9378"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.use-snip.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=9378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}