Email notifications not working?

Lorix2

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Is anyone not getting an email notification when someone responds to a thread that you have subscribed to? I've checked into 5 that I was subscribed to and still have not received the email that lets you know someone had responded. I'm losing track! LOL!

Sorry if this is duplicated - one thread looked familiar, but not totally about this in particular....

I'll have to check back with you all later.

Thank you.
 
As of 10:10 am eastern time , mine is working properly.I have been getting notifications regulary.:D
 
Are you using a DIS email. If so, it has not work for quite some time. If you are, you might think about using your isp's email.
 
thank you ncligs.

Dan - this is what I mean. usually, in my own isp's mailbox, I get notified of a thread response. For 2 days now I've had nothing and when I visiit the threads I've subscribed to, there have been new responses, yet no email notification.

I know my email is working properly because I received email from non-DIS people as recently as a few minutes ago.....what do you suggest? I went into my profile and it IS checked to receive email notifications....this is weird - I feel left out of the "loop". You replied to a thread of mine today and I received nothing...I had to go back in to be updated.

thanks anybody - and everybody!
 

Lorix2,

Just posted again to see if you get an e-mail notification or not. I also sent you a "Private Message" also. Let me know if you got either of these.

Nick
 
Hi Nick,

thank you for responding again. I did get your PM, but no email notification - it's now 2:04.

Lori
 
Lorix2,

I got your posting by e-mail notification, 1 minute after you posted to this thread. I hope you get this by notification. If not, maybe a tech. support can look into it for you.

Good Luck,

Nick:rolleyes:
 
I've never used the email notification so I can't say for sure what the problem may be. I can make some guesses though and maybe that will help.

As you all are aware, there have been some major moves and reconfigurations of the boards over the last few weeks. In that time they have also upgraded the forum software. We've seen the search feature off, then back on and then off again. We've seen the same with the black dots on the envelopes next to each thread. The DIS web pages will be going away because of loading. The state of the DIS email is anyones guess. I've seen the boards be really slow and take anywhere from 10 minutes to an hour or more for a post to actually register in the post count and bump the thread to the top of the page.

All this is to say that there are many things happening in the background and many features that are being turned on and off and back on in an effort to isolate problems and optimize the board performance. This isn't to say that you shouldn't report issues like this, I know that I do and would expect everyone to as well. It is just to say that some of these may just be interim issues that will solve themselves with a bit more time. At least we can hope.

If anyone else has any definitive knowledge of this issue, please let us know.
 
Thank you Bob - I thought the same thing, but others are getting their notifications...I'll just wait it out for a while. The last DIS Discussion Forum Mailer I got was the 7th of Feb.
 
Sorry that I can't be of more help right now. Like I said, I've never used that feature so I can't tell you how reliable or not it has been for me.

One interesting thing that just happened to me. I have an second login name on the DIS board that I've never posted under but just have it there to try things out. I registered it with a yahoo.com email address. In testing out something the other day about the PM system, I filled up the PM folders of this account until I got a message that the folders were full when I tried to send another one. When that happens, the board will send an email to the registered email address that your PM folders are full and that someone tried but was unable to send you a PM.

I went to my yahoo email account and couldn't immediately find the automatic emails that I should have gotten from the DIS forum software. Finally found them and it seems that Yahoo considers such automatically generated emails as potential spam and put them into a folder called Bulk Mail rather than my Inbox!! I've submitted the email to them for consideration to have it allowed through but it was interesting to see this happen. I don't know it this has always been the case or if it is new or changes over time.

Just another thought.
 
oh thank you. good to know....i'll have to check that out. still as of today the 10th, not one notification and I've posted plenty since the 7th and today...this is really frustrating when your used to having this option and have it suddenly stop...
 
A huge thank you to Bob Brazeal! I contacted my isp this morning and explained what you had suggested may be the problem and they were going to look into it for me. I returned home much later and had 48 email notifications from the DIS and all the PM's as well. There was no explanation - but that's okay, at least I know now that it is working. I never would have thought to bring it up to them since my regular email was getting thru - THANK YOU THANK YOU!

Again thank you to Nick and Dan as well!

Lori
 
Lori,

I am glad you got to the bottom of this.................And I hope you get this by e-mail notification!!!!!!!!!:bounce:
 















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