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Bundle echo email notifications triggered from the same action
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Currently with the Echo extension for 1 single comment added, I usually get 2 emails. One notifies me that the page I had automatically watchlisted because I wrote in it has been changed, the other notifies me that I have a new reply in this conversation I had automatically subscribed while being its starter.
This makes me get double emails for almost everything and feels redundant. Echo email notifications triggered from the same action (as in the aforementioned case) should be bundled into a single email, providing you all the needed information in it.

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Bundling is for multiple instances of the same notification type. One of them could be suppressed instead.
There is no generic way to do this; it would need special casing for each pair of notification types.

Also, Echo doesn't support watchlists yet. Can you provide an example of the notifications you are talking about?

@Tgr, take a look at this short discussion which led to the creation of the task. Apparently I had erroneously believed that you got specific emails from being replied to and from getting messages from threads you were subscribed + watchlist emails (which would make the total emails received from 1 action 3). This explains why in the original task I mentioned "Echo" and "bundling". Then I changed from 3 to 2 when I saw that reply notifications and comments on subscripted threads were actually already bundled. Please do check the aforementioned discussion as that would make everything clear and I don't want to make the thread any longer here by replicating the conversation.

I do agree that suppressing could be a more logical choice in this case. You can feel free to reword the request.