Q:

How to receive email for responses to posts on Stack Overflow

When I post a question on Stack Overflow, I need to avoid having to log back in just to check to see if there is an answer to my post. The Preferences for my user account on Stack Overflow should have an option to select which types of responses send email. 
Otherwise, I have to explicitly log back in and check, which is a waste of time. Note that the forum on www.linuxquestions.org has implemented this already, so why can't Stack Overflow implement something similar?

A:

You can configure your email settings across the whole network by going to the preferences section of your user profile on any site:

As Michael Petrotta mentions, there is a link displayed when asking a new question that will open this screen. Email settings used to be displayed in other locations on the site, but they've been relocated as part of an overhaul of how email notifications are handled.

