# Notifications and the evening mail

Two channels for the same information: the bell, which says everything right away inside the screen, and the evening mail, a summary by e-mail once a day.

## The bell

The **Notifications** button (a bell, at the top of every screen) carries a badge with the number of unread notifications — "Notifications (1)". With nothing new, it opens on: "Nothing new: invitations, replies, and moved milestones show up here." With something new, each line says who did what, on which schedule, and how long ago ("Anne replied under Foundations · Rénovation Atelier · just now"); the **Mark all read** button clears the badge without reopening each line.

Three families observed, as the screen itself announces them: **invitations** (someone invited you, or joined a schedule you own), **replies** (to a comment you posted), and **moved milestones** (an icon moved by another member or by a link's propagation).

## The evening mail

Set from **Settings › Preferences › Notifications**, **Evening email** section: a checkbox, "The evening mail: a daily summary of what concerns you", checked by default. The text under the checkbox is explicit: "Sent at 6 PM, on days when something has been waiting for you for more than an hour — if the server has SMTP mail configured. The bell, on the other hand, says everything, right away."

Two conditions have to both hold, then, for you to receive this mail: having left it checked, **and** the instance having an SMTP server configured (a self-hosted instance with no SMTP will never send it — the bell stays the only reliable channel). The message groups notifications by schedule ("*n* new item(s) on *name*:"), one line per notification with a direct link, and ends with a reminder of how to stop it (a link to Preferences).

## What happens when you get it wrong

- **The evening mail is cluttering your inbox**: uncheck the box in Preferences — the bell keeps saying everything, without waiting for the evening.
- **A notification read by mistake**: reopening the screen doesn't bring it back — it's not a gesture that undoes, but it stays readable in the relevant schedule's History (see *[History and Compare](/docs/en/guides/historique-et-comparer/)*).

## What this page doesn't cover

- **Changing your e-mail or your password**: see *[Account and data](/docs/en/compte-donnees/)*.
- **Inviting someone, which triggers an invitation notification**: see *[Sharing and roles](/docs/en/guides/partage-et-roles/)*.
- **Commenting and replying**, the source of reply notifications: see *[Comment threads](/docs/en/guides/fils-de-commentaires/)*.