Managing your emails

Python Morsels sends a few different kinds of email, and you're in control of all of them.

• What kinds of email will I get?
• How do I change what I receive?
• How do I change how often exercise emails arrive?
• How do I unsubscribe from everything?
• I unsubscribed by accident. Can I undo it?
• I'm not getting any emails.

What kinds of email will I get?

There are three kinds you can control:

• Exercise recommendation emails: your personalized nudge to keep practicing, with your next exercise, a due revisit, or a screencast recommendation. You choose how often these arrive (see below), and the occasional reminder about an exercise you've claimed but not finished follows the same setting.
• Python Morsels announcements: very occasional news about new features and sales.
• Trey's Python tips newsletter: my weekly Python tip, sent to newsletter subscribers whether or not they use Python Morsels.

When you first sign up, you'll also get a short series of welcome emails introducing Python Morsels. Those arrive even if your exercise emails are set to "Never". To stop them early, click Stop these welcome emails at the bottom of any of them.

Transactional emails (receipts, password resets, email verification) and billing reminders are always sent.

How do I change what I receive?

Everything is on your Preferences page, under Emails:

• Email me learning recommendations: daily, weekly, monthly, or never, with the day and time they arrive.
• Python Morsels announcements: a switch.
• Trey's Python tips newsletter: a switch.

That page has no save button. Each change saves on its own as you make it.

Each newsletter and announcement email also has an unsubscribe link of its own, and your choices stay in sync however you make them.

Daily Recall notifications aren't email and aren't set here. They're set per device, under Notifications on your recall stats page, and Daily Recall explains them.

How do I change how often exercise emails arrive?

Pick a frequency on your Preferences page: daily, weekly, monthly, or never.

Unless you pick your own time, recommendation emails go out at 7am US Pacific time: every day on the daily setting, Mondays on weekly, and the first Monday of the month on monthly. You can pick the hour and the day of the week on the same page, in your own timezone. A change takes effect at the next matching send, and moving your day of the week earlier can skip one week.

For more on what the recommendation email contains and how it decides what to recommend, see How often you get exercises and emails.

How do I unsubscribe from everything?

Use the unsubscribe link at the bottom of a newsletter or announcement email. Exercise recommendation emails link to your Preferences page instead, where "Never" is one click away.

The unsubscribe link takes you to a confirmation page first, so a single stray click on it never unsubscribes you. Unsubscribing there stops everything at once: exercise emails, announcements, the newsletter, and the welcome emails. If you'd rather keep some emails and drop others, that page also links to your notification settings so you can fine-tune instead.

Your mail app may also show its own Unsubscribe button at the top of a Python Morsels email. That button unsubscribes you from everything immediately, with no confirmation page.

I unsubscribed by accident. Can I undo it?

Yes. The page you see right after unsubscribing has an Undo unsubscribe button that turns everything back on, with exercise emails set to weekly. If you'd had a different frequency before, change it back on your Preferences page.

If you've already closed that page (or you used your mail app's Unsubscribe button), just visit your Preferences page and re-enable whatever you'd like.

I'm not getting any emails.

Python Morsels only sends email to an address you've confirmed. If your Preferences page shows an Unverified badge next to your email address, click Resend the link and then click the link in that email.

If your address is confirmed, check your spam folder and your email settings on the same page. If you still see nothing, email me.