Are You Receiving Email Notifications?

[Jason Dunn]

I believe we finally nailed down the email notification problems we were having last month, but I wanted to make sure. If you sign up for discussion forum update notifications, or private message notifications, do you receive these via email? Answer the survey below please. If you don't use this feature of phpBB, please don't answer the survey. Thank you!

[Jason Dunn]

I believe we finally nailed down the email notification problems we were having last month, but I wanted to make sure. If you sign up for discussion forum update notifications, or private message notifications, do you receive these via email? Answer the survey below please. If you don't use this feature of phpBB, please don't answer the survey. Thank you!

[ThomasC22]

Is this "as of today"? Because I was getting them briefly last week and I got a batch mid-week, and last night I got a batch of them. So I'm not sure if that's a yes or a no :?

(that was a confused :? btw, I'm not quite sure what that paticular emoticon is supposed to convey and I myself have used it in several different contexts so I wanted to make sure I was clear)

[entropy1980]

I am with Thomas.... got them periodically last week then nothing...

[ThomasC22]

Thanks Jeremiah, now I know I'm a No

Anyway, no, I'm not getting them right now as I didn't get one for this thread.

[entropy1980]

That's what I am here for .... to proclaim we are NO's 8O

[Ed Hansberry]

Those that are priodically getting them is one thing - but those that aren't and have signed up for them - make sure they aren't going to a trash folder due to a filter. Some ISPs like Earthlink use BrightMail and they may be shuttling it off to your trash bin. I know Hotmail does it for nearly 100% of notifications I get from other boards and I have to add those notifications to my "safe list."

[Janak Parekh]

Jason, can you add a third option for Erratically? I had the exact same behavior last week as Tom & co.

--bdj

[karen]

And someone at PPT out to ensure that there are no spam filters between PPthoughts and their SMTP server.

My host for my communities just installed a spam filter (with no notification) and they have it set to stop sending an e-mail once there is more than one bounce message. We have thousands of subscribers, so there is just no way to ensure that every single e-mail recipient has an up to date, valid, working e-mail address.

We struggled for weeks, looking a logs, testing, trying to figure out why some lists sent messages just fine an other sent only a couple of messages correctly. Finally, someone at the host thought "uh, I wonder if..." and bang, that was it.

Karen

Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry

Those that are priodically getting them is one thing - but those that aren't and have signed up for them - make sure they aren't going to a trash folder due to a filter. Some ISPs like Earthlink use BrightMail and they may be shuttling it off to your trash bin. I know Hotmail does it for nearly 100% of notifications I get from other boards and I have to add those notifications to my "safe list."

[KyleC]

Well, I can honestly say that I do get my messages, and I would say quite regularly. However, I only do the "Watch this topic" thing so it may be other notifications that are messed up. :scatter:

[Gerard]

I don't think I'm getting them lately... no, I haven't seen a Thoughts email for a couple of weeks at least. I can't really tell if I miss them, because I respond to stuff posted on today's main page, and if I don't hear back I just lose track of the threads. There are far too many forums to keep touch with to spend time hunting down old threads everywhere, so when Dale's or Steve's or Aaron's email notifications fail, I miss stuff there too. Just the breaks, I guess. Perhaps a side effect of dialup combined with Pocket IE? Kind of limits interest in spending huge amounts of time tapping links, which in theory means I get more work done!