logged out, cleared out the cache, closed browser down, opened up browser, cleared cache again, came here, logged in, and my notification has turned itself back on again...

**So are you saying that you have never turned your notifications for emails regarding new sitemails ON but you still receive the notifications? Or you had them turned on then decided to turn them off and still received the ebots?
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to answer your question directly, Stacey, they were in their default state when first implemented [Off].  i saw the link in SiteMail before ever seeing anything regarding what it was for and clicked the link to see what it did/governed.  immediately after that, i found this thread, thought "nope nope nope, don't want no stinkin' e-bots" and went directly back into SiteMail & turned them off, so in essence they were turned on by me for p'raps all of 5-7 minutes yesterday, early afternoonish. it has only been today that things have been acting up as i had no issues with anything yesterday, and it was today i received an e-bot or two though i had it set to "Off" as far as i knew... like i said above, it's turning itself on, but i'm not able to truly determine what the impetus is for that...

any other information i can maybe provide that i've not reported that could aid in resolving things, please let me know...