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Hi there

I didn't ever receive ANY e-mail notifications about new posts to my topics from this forum at all.
Anyone else experiencing this issue?

I'm quite confident that the issue is not on my side, as I am a sysadmin and therefore I SHOULD know what I'm doing ;)
I have full control over my whole email system and I have checked the logs of my inbound smtp gateways (which are the mx records for my domain) and there is NO connection attempt from any IP address at the time where the notification should have been delivered.

I wonder if there is any chance checking the eevblog forum outbound smtp logs to maybe find the "black holes" where the messages are being lost.

I'd love to participate more on this forum but not getting notifications is kind of a show stopper for me..

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Re: not receiving email notifications from this board - anyone else?
« Reply #1 on: August 25, 2018, 09:43:39 am »
I know of others having problems and it may have started after Dave and gnif shifted to another host for the forum.

Maybe rather than in this board you can shift this thread to:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/ (EEVblog Specific)

You have a 'Move Topic' button at the foot of this page so you can place it there where Dave is more likely to spot it.
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Re: not receiving email notifications from this board - anyone else?
« Reply #2 on: August 25, 2018, 07:04:52 pm »
Thanks!

@Dave: if you read this, I am willing to help you/your sysadmin to track this one down, if you need any help with this.
 

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Re: not receiving email notifications from this board - anyone else?
« Reply #3 on: August 25, 2018, 07:10:37 pm »
If there is a problem, it must be pretty recent.  I exchanged PMs with a forum member and I did receive email notifications.  This was around August 16
 

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Re: not receiving email notifications from this board - anyone else?
« Reply #4 on: August 25, 2018, 07:12:52 pm »
Risking to kick in an open door here, but I don't think these notifications are on as default, have a look here:

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/profile/?area=notification;u=139974
Keyboard error: Press F1 to continue.
 

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Re: not receiving email notifications from this board - anyone else?
« Reply #5 on: August 25, 2018, 07:13:51 pm »
If there is a problem, it must be pretty recent.  I exchanged PMs with a forum member and I did receive email notifications.  This was around August 16

obviously this does only happen to very few members. probably some weird international routing issue or some stupid spamfilter.

i have this issue since day one of my registration. i wonder how i got my account activated, though. mayvmbe it started shortly after my registration. can' remember exactly as it has been quite a while.
 

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« Reply #6 on: August 25, 2018, 07:15:10 pm »
Risking to kick in an open door here, but I don't think these notifications are on as default, have a look here:

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/profile/?area=notification;u=139974

nah, all turned on.. but thanks anyway
 

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Re: not receiving email notifications from this board - anyone else?
« Reply #7 on: August 25, 2018, 08:07:26 pm »
Have you tried sending a message to yourself?
I just did it and it arrived before I could swap to my email handler.  Practically instant delivery of the notification.
 

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Re: not receiving email notifications from this board - anyone else?
« Reply #8 on: August 25, 2018, 09:09:37 pm »
Have you tried sending a message to yourself?
I just did it and it arrived before I could swap to my email handler.  Practically instant delivery of the notification.
It's not about PM's, they work fine.

Email notifications of replies is threads is the issue and they're set up using Notify at the foot of the page.
I haven't used it myself as 'View Replies' at the head of the page suits my needs.
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Re: not receiving email notifications from this board - anyone else?
« Reply #9 on: August 25, 2018, 10:19:25 pm »
Have you tried sending a message to yourself?
I just did it and it arrived before I could swap to my email handler.  Practically instant delivery of the notification.
It's not about PM's, they work fine.

Email notifications of replies is threads is the issue and they're set up using Notify at the foot of the page.
I haven't used it myself as 'View Replies' at the head of the page suits my needs.

I thought we were talking about the notifications that come by email to alert the member to a forum message.  My bad...

I have never used the thread notification feature.
 

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Re: not receiving email notifications from this board - anyone else?
« Reply #10 on: August 25, 2018, 10:20:43 pm »
So I thought I would turn Notify on and post another reply.  We'll see...

Yes!  It works...  Not as fast coming in as the previous test but it got here in a couple of minutes.
« Last Edit: August 25, 2018, 10:23:32 pm by rstofer »
 

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Re: not receiving email notifications from this board - anyone else?
« Reply #11 on: August 25, 2018, 10:21:18 pm »
Have you tried sending a message to yourself?
I just did it and it arrived before I could swap to my email handler.  Practically instant delivery of the notification.
It's not about PM's, they work fine.

Email notifications of replies is threads is the issue and they're set up using Notify at the foot of the page.
I haven't used it myself as 'View Replies' at the head of the page suits my needs.

tried it anyway - no notification for the PM either...
 

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Re: not receiving email notifications from this board - anyone else?
« Reply #12 on: August 25, 2018, 10:29:28 pm »
Have you tried sending a message to yourself?
I just did it and it arrived before I could swap to my email handler.  Practically instant delivery of the notification.
It's not about PM's, they work fine.

Email notifications of replies is threads is the issue and they're set up using Notify at the foot of the page.
I haven't used it myself as 'View Replies' at the head of the page suits my needs.

I thought we were talking about the notifications that come by email to alert the member to a forum message.  My bad...

I have never used the thread notification feature.
It's useful for those that don't frequent the forum much but have say threads that offer discounts, support and the like.
It really needs gnif to setup a new member and check that it's all working properly in both threads not posted in and to notification of reply to one's own posts/threads.

A lot of members have an email icon below our profiles (I don't) but are those links functioning as they should ?
They don't seem to.  :-//
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Re: not receiving email notifications from this board - anyone else?
« Reply #13 on: August 25, 2018, 10:37:40 pm »
Have you tried sending a message to yourself?
I just did it and it arrived before I could swap to my email handler.  Practically instant delivery of the notification.
It's not about PM's, they work fine.

Email notifications of replies is threads is the issue and they're set up using Notify at the foot of the page.
I haven't used it myself as 'View Replies' at the head of the page suits my needs.

I thought we were talking about the notifications that come by email to alert the member to a forum message.  My bad...

I have never used the thread notification feature.
It's useful for those that don't frequent the forum much but have say threads that offer discounts, support and the like.
It really needs gnif to setup a new member and check that it's all working properly in both threads not posted in and to notification of reply to one's own posts/threads.

A lot of members have an email icon below our profiles (I don't) but are those links functioning as they should ?
They don't seem to.  :-//

Well, thread and PM notifications work for me and I have been around here for awhile.  Not a long-timer like most but a couple of years, I suppose.  Certainly from before the server switch a few months back.

I went into my Profile and verified my email address but it would have to have been correct and it was.

Some members don't allow direct email as a Profile option.  I don't.  I get an email notification that a PM is available but I have to come to the site to read it.
 

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Re: not receiving email notifications from this board - anyone else?
« Reply #14 on: August 25, 2018, 10:44:03 pm »
Have you tried sending a message to yourself?
I just did it and it arrived before I could swap to my email handler.  Practically instant delivery of the notification.
It's not about PM's, they work fine.

Email notifications of replies is threads is the issue and they're set up using Notify at the foot of the page.
I haven't used it myself as 'View Replies' at the head of the page suits my needs.

I thought we were talking about the notifications that come by email to alert the member to a forum message.  My bad...

I have never used the thread notification feature.
It's useful for those that don't frequent the forum much but have say threads that offer discounts, support and the like.
It really needs gnif to setup a new member and check that it's all working properly in both threads not posted in and to notification of reply to one's own posts/threads.

A lot of members have an email icon below our profiles (I don't) but are those links functioning as they should ?
They don't seem to.  :-//

Well, thread and PM notifications work for me and I have been around here for awhile.  Not a long-timer like most but a couple of years, I suppose.  Certainly from before the server switch a few months back.

I went into my Profile and verified my email address but it would have to have been correct and it was.

Some members don't allow direct email as a Profile option.  I don't.  I get an email notification that a PM is available but I have to come to the site to read it.
Yeah there's a few things that maybe could have impacted on this functionality but interesting yours seems to work fine. Thanks for checking.  :-+
I know of a couple of others that are having the same issue as nemail whereas once Notify worked fine for them.

nemail, can you get PM's ?
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Re: not receiving email notifications from this board - anyone else?
« Reply #15 on: August 25, 2018, 11:25:57 pm »
nemail, can you get PM's ?

you mean e-mail notifications for PMs? No.
I do get PMs within the forum (if i log in to the website, I mean), however.
 

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Re: not receiving email notifications from this board - anyone else?
« Reply #16 on: August 25, 2018, 11:32:39 pm »
nemail, can you get PM's ?

you mean e-mail notifications for PMs? No.
I do get PMs within the forum (if i log in to the website, I mean), however.
OK, so something for you is broken as you should get an email advising you that you have a PM.
Double check your account settings and the various switches/tick-boxes within.
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Re: not receiving email notifications from this board - anyone else?
« Reply #17 on: August 26, 2018, 12:02:56 am »
i agree, something is broken here.

attached you'll find my settings. dunno what possibly could be wrong there...
 

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Re: not receiving email notifications from this board - anyone else?
« Reply #18 on: August 26, 2018, 12:19:09 am »
i agree, something is broken here.

attached you'll find my settings. dunno what possibly could be wrong there...
It looks OK and all I can suggest is to turn lots of them OFF and then Save Profile changes. Then get back into them again and set to ON and then again Save.
Check if that works otherwise gnif will need to look into a possible forum bug.
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« Reply #19 on: August 26, 2018, 12:27:33 am »
hmm did that, sent myself a PM, didn't get any notification...

edit: did even check my inbound smtp gateways log files. no connection attempt has been made...
« Last Edit: August 26, 2018, 12:29:50 am by nemail »
 

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Re: not receiving email notifications from this board - anyone else?
« Reply #20 on: August 26, 2018, 12:31:16 am »
You have turned on "Allow users to email" (or whatever it is called).  Maybe when that is ON, PMs are OFF.  Maybe...
 

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Re: not receiving email notifications from this board - anyone else?
« Reply #21 on: August 26, 2018, 12:32:36 am »
You have turned on "Allow users to email" (or whatever it is called).  Maybe when that is ON, PMs are OFF.  Maybe...

maybe, but I don't receive topic reply notifications either...
 

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Re: not receiving email notifications from this board - anyone else?
« Reply #22 on: August 26, 2018, 02:40:02 am »
Have you tried an alternate email address - something on a completely different domain?
 

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Re: not receiving email notifications from this board - anyone else?
« Reply #23 on: August 26, 2018, 09:09:22 am »
Have you tried an alternate email address - something on a completely different domain?

yarr, company mail address works. but how does this help?
 

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Re: not receiving email notifications from this board - anyone else?
« Reply #24 on: August 26, 2018, 09:45:44 am »

Anyone else experiencing this issue?


Since 2 or 3 days no more notifications - exept the PCAD-thread today... and there was a lot of trafic on https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/dynamic-electronic-load-project/ since my last notification from 20.8.2018...

from my side I assumed a hickup with yahoo as yahoomail is not that stable from my experience as it should be, so it will be stable in some days again.



 


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