nobody gets paid here jackass.

 

LOL, zoom... Can I do anything to get the email option working (besides complaining)?

Thanks!

 

LMAO! :D

 

Paid or not bad, jackass, as volunteers you still have responsibilities. If you don't know how to fix it, then find someone who can or remove the feature from the site.

 

we have no responsibility to make sure you get email notifications what so ever. in fact any resposibility we have to forum members ends when they suggest things like firing us.

i dont know if i can fix it or not since i have never been an Admin before. I know that there was a point where no one was getting them and now most are but some are not. does that sound like a forum issue to you? a couple people have asked me to check it out for them and i have already started.

 

Sorry to get you all riled. I have a lot of respect for your input on this forum. Maybe this should of been addressed specifically to the admins.

FYI...My initial remark was a wise *** remark so I guess I deserved for you to yell a bit.

 

Maybe the forum got blacklisted as a spam source or open relay... and thus only some mail providers are blocking the mail? I dunno, just guessing. I haven't received an email notification for months.

BUT, I just switched my notification email address to a different account at a different provider, so someone post a reply to this thread and we'll see what happens

 

posting reply for heelnToe... *crossing fingers*

 

Can we try that again (someone reply to this)? iPowerWeb had apparently turned of my "catchall" email account that I'm using for this test, so it would have deleted anything sent to it. It's fixed now

 

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OK... I just got an email notification after switching my email address to another provider (iPowerWeb). I was using a Comcast address, which stopped receiving notifications months ago.

I'll let it go for a few more notifications to make sure it's consistent, then switch back to Comcast. If Comcast then fails as before, we know it's a provider-specific problem.... right? Again, perhaps the forum's SMTP server got itself blacklisted on one of the various spam/relay lists...? Or a DNS problem? Or...?

 

The iPowerWeb-hosted email address works fine. Got 6+ notifications right away. I'm back on ComCast again, so we'll see if that fails as before.

Can you Admins receive/see mails which bounces back? There might be a clue in there, as most blacklists return an error message. I don't know how the forum software works, but the forum's SMTP server should return an error message as well if it runs into probs, including DNS difficulties.

Do you know the IP of the forum's SMTP server? I think you can go to places like http://dsbl.org/listing and see if it's blacklisted.

Then again I barely understand any of this stuff, so don't laugh at me if I'm way off base here, lol...

 

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Yup, my email@comcast.net address definately does NOT work, while my email@ipowerweb.net address definately DOES work. I've switched back and forth a few times, and it's consistent.

So... my guess is the forum software is fine, but your SMTP server is being rejected by SOME of the destination SMTP servers it's sending too. iPowerWeb likes you, but ComCast thinks your bad news, lol.

The tech support of the forum's hosting company should be able to look into it and see if their SMTP server is blacklisted, is having DNS problems (doubtful since it's been months), etc. I doubt there's anything you Admins here can do... it's really a problem for the hosting company to fix (assuming all my assumptions aren't totally off-base, lol).

 

HeelnToe,

I've always used Adelphia for my email and mine stopped working a few months back.

I might try switching to some free email (suggestions?) to see if adelphia is the problem.

 

GMAIL BABY ill send you an invite

 

ps i have 49 other invites left

 

Nice troubleshooting HeelnToe, you seem like you are on to something. I have switched to another e-mail account and I'll see what happens.

 

sal i aakse dthe forum to send you an email at the yahoo account let me know if you get it

 

Yeah Baby!!

Never ever have I been so excited to see that someone had replied to Klegg's blog. :p

Email subscriptions are BACK!

Turns out it was just my isp (adelphia) who wasn't digging the notifications.

Thanks to Zoom, I got on gmail and all is well. :D

 

Looks like that may have been it. Zoom44, I received the e-mail to my yahoo account.

 

oooh man i want Gmail Cmon Zoom

 

send me a note to [com[/email] and i will get you one.

beers

 

Done thanks

 

I've been experimenting some more too...

Gmail and Hotmail work fine for me too, as does my iPowerWeb hosted account as mentioned.

My Comcast email won't receive any notifications at all. Interesting.