As a free account you have to subscribe to threads manually and set the email option to on; paid accounts have some defaults, mine is subscribe no email

Go to your Subscriptions page and make sure that you have the threads you want email notifications for set to not

On your subscriptions page threads that you want to receive email updates from should show the blue envelope with green checkmark, not the blue envelope with the red no symbol

Free accounts do have access to the subscription system, although it is limited when compared to paid accounts.

Free accounts cannot subscribe on all boards(General for example), have fewer results shown on their subscriptions list, no default to Disable Automatic subscriptions, Subscribe without Email Notifications, or Subscribe with Email Notifications, no ability to Change the Subscription Option at the time of posting (Do Not Add to Subscribe List, Without Email Notification, Subscribe With Email Notification).


If the subscribe button isn't present then you are in a community, i.e. General, that you do not have access to the subscription system for.

Additionally threads you have created are available under MyTopics


subscriptions=threads you have subscribed to, via posting or marking as subscribed.

My Topics=threads you have started

My Board =forums you have marked as such will show up as a custom community for you under MyBoard

Active Topics=Topics most recently posted in by anyone.