Title: How Subscriptions Work
Last modified: November 22, 2022

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# How Subscriptions Work

 *  Resolved [bobjgarrett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bobjgarrett/)
 * (@bobjgarrett)
 * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-subscriptions-work/)
 * I need some reassurance!
    I am in the process of migrating many years of forum
   threads from another forum system into bbPress. This is all looking good but 
   I want to enable all members to receive alerts when new threads are created, 
   but not the old threads I am migrating. If I do the migration and only after 
   that turn on Subscriptions for all members can I be sure they will only get alerts
   for new threads as they are created? ie there is no risk the software will look
   at all the old migrated threads and send hundreds of alert? Thanks

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 *  Plugin Author [Robin W](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robin-w/)
 * (@robin-w)
 * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-subscriptions-work/#post-16224204)
 * after 30 years in IT, I never say never.
 * I didn’t write bbpress (the style pack plugin is mine), but I have a lot of knowledge
   of it.
 * If you have the subscriptions turned off in
 * dashboard>settings>forums>subscriptions
 * then it should not send anything
 * I’d be tempted to also install
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-emails/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-emails/)
 * and disable email sending whilst migrating as an extra guard!!
    -  This reply was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by [Robin W](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robin-w/).
 *  Thread Starter [bobjgarrett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bobjgarrett/)
 * (@bobjgarrett)
 * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-subscriptions-work/#post-16224257)
 * Thanks.
    The risk with that is that it might stop email alerts going out from
   the current forum system which I would not want to do. I might just migrate one
   forum thread first then and see what happens. That way any damage is limited.
 *  Plugin Author [Robin W](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robin-w/)
 * (@robin-w)
 * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-subscriptions-work/#post-16224275)
 * as I say, it shouldn’t send anything if subscriptions are off, but agree with
   your strategy 🙂

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 * Last activity: [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-subscriptions-work/#post-16224275)
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