Email Notifications Going Missing?

davecov · Email Notifications Going Missing?

Dear Members,

I don't appear to be able to receive any email notifications of updates or replies to posts or topics I am watching and I wonder if any of you have the same problem. It is a bit embarrassing as I am missing lots of posts! The strange thing is that I have the identical settings to those in my Airfix site and I always get those but never the Whispers ones.

Please can you make a post below telling me whether you do or no not receive the emails. I need to know both.

Thanks

Dave

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hodders

Do you have a cleanup utility e.g. CrapCleaner (recommended!) that you run periodically? this will delete your cookies and these could vary from site to site.

davecov

Thanks for your comments, lads.

It is not a cookie issue or anything like that. I don't retain cookies anyway and my browser cache is deleted at the end of each session. It was a more fundamental issue than that. Quite a few site owners had been complaining and then I realised that I wasn't getting the Whispers ones although I got my Airfix forum ones.

As it turns out, tonight I have been receiving the notifications again. Perhaps the hosts have tweaked something because I certainly haven't. As I said earlier in the thread, I have the same settings in both of my forum - supposedly to make it easier to flit back and forth!

Anyway, seems the problem is solved.

Dave

davecov

The same old problem of my not getting notifications is back again, both on this forum and my other Airfix Tribute Forum. So, apologies to those of you who are having to wait a long time for me to approve memberships. It is rather annoying because I am also missing replies in threads that I am involved or interested in and I'm not getting Private Message notifications either. As I am having to spend most time away from the forum, it is doing my nut in as I don't want to be seen neglecting you all!

Dave

hodders

Maybe (over-excessive) spam filtering by your ISP? You could test for this by creating yourself another email ID at another ISP, then having that ID notified of new appends. Even hotmail or googlemail would probably suffice.

davecov

I suspect it is the domain hosts for my email address, not the ISP as I just checked my emails online and there were none. I have reported it to the hosts now that I know that the rest of you are okay. I didn't want to raise a support ticket until I had heard from some of you.
Thanks for the help.

Dave

Mr. Blew Itt

When I signed up to join the Forum several days ago, I waited for a reply to announce my login had become effective to start posting, but it never came. Today, I just tried again and found it working!

So there must definitely be a problem with automatic e-mails.

hodders

Mine are working fine, indeed I am getting email alerts for this very topic. The last one is below, if others are wondering what we are talking about:

Hello,

You are receiving this email because you are watching the topic, "Email Notifications Going Missing?" at - Whispers From Walmington Forum -. This topic has received a reply since your last visit. You can use the following link to view the replies made, no more notifications will be sent until you visit the topic.

http://whispersfromwalmington.myfastforum.org/viewtopic.php?p=870#870

If you no longer wish to watch this topic you can either click the "Stop watching this topic link" found at the bottom of the topic above, or by clicking the following link:

http://whispersfromwalmington.myf...topic.php?t=185&unwatch=topic

--
Thanks

DaveCov
Site Owner
Whispers From Walmington Forum
http://whispersfromwalmington.myfastforum.org/forum2.php

By the way, the email client I'm using is nothing more sophisticated than Outlook Express on Windows XP.

davecov

In addition to those notifications, I also get admin ones telling me when somebody has signed up. I haven't been getting them for months now and my other forum has gone the same way in the past fortnight or so. I haven't changed anything, use the same set up - Outlook & XP, and have had the same email addresses since both forum were set up. It really is puzzling as normal mail is getting through to the email addresses and I have the forum hosts in my White Lists.

Dave

davecov

Finally, my email notifications are back to normal again. Took time as well! It was caused by my domain provider blocking MyFastForum (MYFF) for being a spammer. This was because MYFF had different IP addresses when various lookups were performed on their domain. I got them to correct the IP address problem and everything is okay now.

Apologies to anybody who may have written to me by PM or post and expected a reply or whose account may not have been activated promptly. Hopefully that should be the end of it.......

Dave

spoken20

thanks for sharing this info.

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