Forum - no email notifications - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: obiwanjacobi
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 13, 2015, 05:23:35 am
content: Not sure if this is the right place...I am not receiving any email notifications the last couple of months.I checked my account/profile settings and the notification settings of the forum-posts in question...Is there a known issue with the email server or has my email address been black-listed?Thanx,Marc

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 13, 2015, 08:57:51 am
content: Anyone else?I don't use the email notification system myself.

author: zapta
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 13, 2015, 02:01:39 pm
content: I am getting email notifications for PMs sent to me. OP, did you check your spam folder?

author: tautech
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 13, 2015, 08:21:40 pm
content: Quote from: zapta on September 13, 2015, 02:01:39 pm+1

author: obiwanjacobi
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 14, 2015, 05:43:44 am
content: Yeah I did check my spam filter - nothing but junk. ;-)I use a hotmail account that I use for all my internet related email - I still receive emails from other sites...I will try a different account - see if that makes any difference...

author: obiwanjacobi
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 17, 2015, 01:56:27 pm
content: My last message there was that I would try a different email address and I did and it worked, at least I got the email-verification/activation email!Then I thought I re-enter my original email address. Unfortunately that did not work. Tried a few times to (re)send the activation email but nothing. Then I thought I'd switch back to the account that worked, but now also that account does not seem to receive the activation emails anymore.After playing around with activation I got this error:QuoteIt seems that the current email address cannot be re-activated.Anyway, I have created an alias an reactivate that - which worked (at least once) and forward all email to my internet email account.Still, there is something fishy going on with the way the forum software treats email addresses.I would really appreciate if some forum admin would check out why I cannot reuse my original email account - even after activating a new one...? Is there a black-list or a recently used list or...?

author: logictom
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 03, 2015, 08:52:41 pm
content: I was just about to post a new topic but found this one.I've noticed I haven't been receiving any notifications either for some time, I've checked over the forum settings but can't see anything.I am also using a hotmail account, perhaps it is hotmail related?

author: logictom
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 03, 2015, 09:16:04 pm
content: I just tried using the 'Send this topic' button on this page, didn't get the email to either hotmail or outlook address, I did however get it to my gmail account

author: tautech
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 03, 2015, 09:26:51 pm
content: Quote from: logictom on December 03, 2015, 09:16:04 pmIn your A/c settings> Modify Profile you can edit/set the email address you want notifications sent to.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 04, 2015, 02:39:14 am
content: Quote from: logictom on December 03, 2015, 08:52:41 pmYep, huge problem with hotmail it seems.People who use hotmail don't get registration emails.I have no idea why.

author: SL4P
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 04, 2015, 03:30:45 am
content: Since the forum site rebuild - I get about 60-75% of expected emails...Certainly not all 'replies/updates' as expected.Not a hotmail account

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 04, 2015, 04:36:45 am
content: Quote from: SL4P on December 04, 2015, 03:30:45 amThe forum site was not rebuilt or touched in any way apart from the page width.The email server was not touched.

author: SL4P
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 04, 2015, 05:14:28 am
content: Ok, I thought there was a mention a month or two ago that the forum wen was being migrated to this updated form.My bad!It just seems coincidental that I received almost no forum emails for a couple of weeks, gradually increasingly back to present level of approximately 75%Maybe some counter or flag was reset - looking at new vs replied vs followed posts

author: logictom
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 04, 2015, 12:15:33 pm
content: I've always used the same email account on here (apparently 6yrs) and only ever had an issue the last couple of months.I would change the email but I don't use gmail - I only have the google account for all the other things google based.

author: crispy_tofu
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 04, 2015, 12:21:20 pm
content: Quote from: EEVblog on December 04, 2015, 02:39:14 amI'm pretty sure it's the overzealous spam filters.