Getting email notifications when comments or answers are posted

Question

Is there a way for me to get email notifications when comments are posted on my answers or when answers are posted to my questions (mostly the former...)?

I have looked all over in my preferences and I have the box "Allow email notifications when I subscribe to questions or tags" checked. I don't see any "subscribe" button on questions that I answer in order to follow up on them. (Other than subscribing to the answer rss feed... but that seems a little heavy handed.) I just want to make sure I am on top of responding to people! I know there is the little notification center in the upper left, but I am hoping for emails, because I don't check my so tabs often enough.

Answer 1

You automatically subscribe to your own questions and receive inbox messages. You can edit your email settings from your profile, or click here to go to the menu directly. Unfortunately, that's the best Stack Overflow can offer.

Answer 2

I have my email address entered into the StackExchange email options and have it set to email me unread messages every 3 hours. However, the only notifications I receive are for updates relating to Meta Stackoverflow (ie this thread.)

I'd very much appreciate a clear set of instructions as to how one can be notified when someone responds to a question one has posted on Stack Overflow. This seems like it shouldn't be very complicated.

Answer 3

Sounds like StackOverflow email is busted, as I have this problem too, though set for 3 hr emails.

The way to get notifications pushed is with their mobile app. My iphone now shows notifications of responses, etc, as they happen! Try that out. And StackOverflow, please add an option to send every individual notification as an email. Those of us who don't live on SE would appreciate it, and yes, we can handle the email. That's why we're asking :)

Answer 4

I too have this problem that I don't get the emails. I have checked the setting for getting emailed when there're updates to my questions and answers, but all I can get is a list of new activity and nothing spec related to my questions and answers. I though this was going to be fixed but either I've misunderstood or it's a bug. See also: How does one get email notifications from Stack Overflow?