Turn off email notifications
Facebook sends you email to your primary email address they have for you whenever you get a post, or some other type of notification. If you have it set to notify you on any event, your email will get full of replies. These replies are from Facebook and not from the group or page that you are a member of.
If you do not want to get notification whenever someone posts on a page or group your involved in, you can set it up to only give you Summary and important updates only. When you set it to summary and important updates only, you will get much less email. However there is no way to completely turn off email notifications entirely.
To change notification to summary and important updates instead of an email whenever someone posts, do the following.
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Access Account Settings
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Click Account Settings
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Click Notifications
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Click Email Frequency and put a check on Send me important updates and summary emails instead of individual notification emails.
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Important updates include photo tag, payment confirmation, security, and privacy notifications. Summary emails will be sent if you've missed popular activity.
If you do not want to get emails at all, you can create you an email account with Yahoo, Hotmail, or some other email service and use it on your Facebook account. This is something I highly recommend. You can have as many email addresses as you want. It costs you nothing to create extra email addresses.
I have an email address that I use for my facebook that I can care less if it gets spammed with mail. It actually does get full of junk mail. I know the mail in this email is junk because I don't use it for regular correspondence. I will periodically go in select all the messages and delete so it won't get too full. That only takes a second since I don't have to see if there is any important ones in there. If I do want correspondence from someone but only one time, I will give this email address. I will then review the messages till I get that one email then I don't look at it again.
You can have one email address that you use for correspondence with, you can have an email address that you use for registering products, you can have an account for accounts (such as Facebook and such). Then you only check the email accounts that you want to correspondence with. Since Facebook notifies you on Facebook of any posts or messages you are involved in, you don't need to read them in email unless you want to. Therefore if you use an email that you don't use for correspondence, you can ignore the email. However you do need to open the email periodically or the email server will think the email is not in use and close the email address down. What you can do is go to the email once a month and open one email and then exit. That will keep the account open.
You can also attach the email address to Outlook, MSN Messenger or some other service. That will keep it open without you having to touch it. Just because it is there doesn't mean you have to view it. I have both my primary email and my junk email address (the one I use for stuff I don't want correspondence from) set up in Outlook. Outlook keeps my junk email address live so it doesn't get canceled. Since it is in a different folder than my main one, I never pay attention to it.