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Can I turn off these emails: We've detected a sign-in to your account from a new IP address (lemmy.ca)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have a mastodon.social account (if the instance I'm on matters). I use VPN and notice I'm getting these emails each time I sign in. My account is also just a post viewing account, so I have no account security concerns.

I checked the settings UI in mastodon and all email preferences are content/interaction-related versus security-related - I couldn't find any way of turning these emails off.

Setting up 2FA to extinguish this is out of the question. Is there a way to turn these emails off on the Mastodon side or are my only options to mark Mastodon emails as spam on the email side (or delete the Mastodon account and go back to viewing without an account)?

TIA! :)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oof, that must be hard for people without a permant IP address or on mobile. Maybe make an account on another instance?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Thanks for the empathy and suggestion :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Depending on your email provider, you should be able to set up a filter that automatically marks matching emails as read or archives/deletes them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Thanks for your suggestion! This is what I implemented, and with Protonmail it was pretty easy to set up. It would be a nice thing for them to implement on the Mastodon.social side of things