What filters did you set up? That might be a sufficient fix.

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Matt Sicker

> On Sep 25, 2022, at 00:05, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote:
> 
> Dependabot really doesn’t need to generate ANY emails. Every time it commits 
> something to Github, including creating PRs, we already will get an email for 
> that. 
> So the dependabot emails are just annoying noise. That is why I configured my 
> email server to discard them all last week. 
> 
> Now, instead of getting hundreds of emails seemingly every day from Commons, 
> Maven and Logging I am down to a manageable number. And the ones I now get 
> are because a human did something that warrants human attention.
> 
> Ralph
> 
>> On Sep 23, 2022, at 5:05 PM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Have you ever heard the expression "Don't shoot the messenger"? ;-)
>> 
>> Dependabot is a great tool IMO.
>> 
>> I think someone had proposed a different email address for bot emails that
>> that obviously did not happen. Then there is classic "inbox rules" reply.
>> Whomever wants to drive this can go ahead...
>> 
>> Gary
>> 
>>> On Fri, Sep 23, 2022, 19:47 Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> After secretary emails, emails related to Dependabot are the next most
>>> common message in my mailbox. I’ve already had to clear out several gigs of
>>> emails, and these Dependabot rebases and relentless updates are making it
>>> impossible to follow anything on the mailing lists anymore.
>>> 
>>> Proposal: all Dependabot messages should be batched into a digest email or
>>> similar. I don’t need multiple notifications per PR, and I don’t need
>>> dozens of Jira issues commented on for no good reason. Alternative: disable
>>> Dependabot as a failed experiment.
>>> 
>>> —
>>> Matt Sicker
> 

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