You open your inbox and half of it is Reddit telling you someone replied to a comment you forgot you left, and X reminding you an account you follow just posted again. You clicked unsubscribe on one of them last week, and a different flavor of the same email arrived the next morning. Both platforms send these as notification emails, and the switch that stops them lives in their settings, not inside any single message.
To stop Reddit and X emails, change each platform’s own settings. On Reddit, open Settings, go to the Emails tab, and toggle Unsubscribe from all emails. On X, open Settings and privacy, then Notifications, then Preferences, then Email notifications, and switch off the top toggle. Security and account emails stay on in both.
Why do Reddit and X send so many emails?
Both platforms email you every time something happens in the app, and they ship with most of those emails switched on. On Reddit, a reply to your comment, an upvote milestone, a chat message, a trending post in a community you joined, and a weekly digest each trigger their own email. On X, a new follower, a mention, a repost, a like on your post, and a “here is what you missed” recap do the same. You never picked these one by one. You agreed to the whole stream when you made the account, and the defaults stayed loud.
None of it is spam, which is why marking it as junk is the wrong tool. It is graymail: mail you technically opted into and never quite decided to keep. That refill is the same pattern behind email subscription fatigue, where you clear the inbox and it fills right back from senders you never audited in one place. The durable fix is to stop the notifications where each platform generates them.
How do I turn off Reddit email notifications?
Open Reddit’s Emails settings and toggle Unsubscribe from all emails. The catch that trips most people: the email controls live under a separate Emails tab, not the Notifications tab, which governs only in-app and push alerts. Here is the desktop path, current as of 2026:
- Open Settings. Click your profile icon in the top right, then choose Settings.
- Open the Emails tab. In the settings menu, select Emails. Do not stop at Notifications, which controls in-app and push alerts, not what lands in your inbox.
- Turn the emails off. Switch off individual categories you no longer want, or scroll down and toggle Unsubscribe from all emails. That one switch stops every optional email at once.
On the Reddit mobile app the route is a little deeper: tap your profile picture in the top right, open Settings, tap Account settings for your username, then Manage emails, and flip Unsubscribe from all emails.
Expected outcome: activity emails, digests, and product prompts stop. Account messages like email verification and password resets keep coming, which Reddit sends regardless. Reddit’s own Managing Your E-mail Preferences help page documents the same toggle.
How do I turn off X (Twitter) email notifications?
Open X’s Email notifications screen and switch off the master toggle at the top. X, formerly Twitter, keeps one control that grays out every option below it, so you do not have to uncheck each category by hand. Here is the desktop path, current as of 2026:
- Open Settings and privacy. Click More in the left sidebar, choose Settings and Support, then Settings and privacy.
- Go to Notifications, then Preferences. Select Notifications, then open the Preferences section.
- Open Email notifications and turn it off. Click Email notifications, then switch off the toggle at the top. Every category beneath it turns gray and stops sending.
On the X mobile app: tap your profile icon, choose Settings and privacy, tap Notifications, open Preferences, then Email notifications, and flip the same master toggle off.
Expected outcome: mention, follow, like, repost, and recap emails all stop. X still sends security and verification email, such as login alerts and password resets, from its own account addresses. X’s help page on email preferences covers the same screen.
Reddit vs X: where the email setting lives
Both destinations do the same job, a single master switch, but they sit in different menus with different labels. Here is the side by side:
| X (Twitter) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Desktop path | Settings, then Emails tab | Settings and privacy, then Notifications, then Preferences, then Email notifications |
| Master off switch | Unsubscribe from all emails | Email notifications toggle at the top |
| Control type | One switch plus per-category toggles | One master toggle that grays out the rest |
| Common trap | The Notifications tab is not the email tab | Email lives under Preferences, not the main list |
| Can’t be turned off | Account and verification emails | Security and verification emails |
| Footer unsubscribe | Yes, per email type | Yes, per email type |
Bottom line: on Reddit you flip Unsubscribe from all emails under the Emails tab, and on X you flip the master toggle under Email notifications. Neither gives a total blackout, because both hold back a small set of security emails on purpose.
Which Reddit and X emails can’t you turn off?
Account and security emails ignore your settings by design. On both platforms, password resets, email verification codes, two-factor login alerts, and changes to terms or policy arrive no matter how many toggles you flip, because they protect your account rather than promote activity. Reddit states plainly that administrative messages keep coming even after you opt out of everything else, and X sends its verification and password mail the same way.
This floor is deliberate, and it is worth keeping. Those emails are how you learn that someone tried to log into your account or reset your password. The addresses behind them are the ones you should never block or mark as spam, because doing so cuts off your early warning system. Everything else, the mentions and digests and reminders, is fair game to silence.
What is the difference between the in-app setting and the unsubscribe link?
The in-app setting is the source off switch; the footer unsubscribe link usually stops one type of email. When you flip the toggle inside Reddit or X, you tell the platform to stop generating whole categories of mail before they are ever sent. When you click Unsubscribe at the bottom of a single email, you typically opt out of just that one stream, and the other categories keep arriving from their own controls.
Use the footer link when one specific recurring email annoys you and you want it gone in five seconds. Use the in-app setting when you want the whole flood to stop at once. Both platforms attach the standard unsubscribe header too, so many mail apps show their own unsubscribe button at the top of the message without you opening it.
Why do I still get Reddit or X emails after turning them off?
Give it up to a day, then check for a toggle you missed. A message or two right after you save is normal, since the change takes time to propagate and a few emails are already queued. More often, you switched off one category and left another on, so the digest stops while the mentions keep coming. Reopen the Emails tab on Reddit or the Email notifications screen on X and confirm the switch actually saved.
If a specific Reddit or X address keeps mailing you past all of that, treat it like any stubborn sender and cut it off at your end. Blocking the sender or filtering it into a folder stops the mail from reaching your inbox even when a source setting misbehaves, and our guide on how to block an email sender covers the few taps for Gmail, Outlook, and Apple Mail. Keep block as a last resort here, since it can also hide the account alerts you want to keep.
What about the rest of your inbox?
Reddit and X are two senders in a pile of hundreds. Fixing their settings quiets two loud voices, and then the retailer promos, the abandoned-cart nudges, and the newsletters you forgot you signed up for are all still there. Settings pages like these only exist for the handful of platforms big enough to build one. For the long tail, you are back to unsubscribing one message at a time.
That is the job Email Unsubscriber was built for. It scans your Gmail or personal Outlook inbox in your own browser, so your email content never reaches our servers, and lists every subscription sender in one place. It sends real unsubscribe requests where senders support the one-click standard, flags the ones who keep mailing after you opt out, and costs a single one-off payment rather than a monthly fee. The access is read-only with no lingering tokens, which you can verify on our security page. Reddit’s and X’s own toggles are still the right fix for those two; the app handles everything without a settings page. For a Gmail-specific pass over the whole backlog, see our guide to mass unsubscribing in Gmail.
The takeaway
The lasting way to stop Reddit and X emails is each platform’s own settings, not the unsubscribe link at the bottom of one message. On Reddit, open Settings, go to the Emails tab, and toggle Unsubscribe from all emails. On X, open Settings and privacy, then Notifications, then Preferences, then Email notifications, and switch off the master toggle. Expect account and security emails to keep arriving in both, because neither platform lets you disable the messages that protect your login. When the noise is coming from far more than two apps, the in-app toggles will not scale, and a single browser-based pass over every sender will.
