over the years every once in a while the email notifications for updated threads got delayed a few hours, i always figured the server got backed up or something…
but for the last little while (couple of weeks?) they have completely stopped
Aha, I wonder if Lycos.com is also blocking SitePoint. I haven’t gotten a free chapter sample of the jQuery ninja book I ordered weeks ago. They did have a spam attack recently.
I’ll try another email address… just a shame to dump one that’s been mine for over 13 years.
We tried to send an email on July 08, and Yahoo! rejected it for policy reasons.
We have deleted the bounce record at our end so let’s see what happens now.
test PM sent to Rudy, he didn’t recieve the email notification. Seeing as he got the email through ok for the sample chapters (post #18) I think we can narrow it down to something going wrong with emails from forums@sitepoint.com to Rudy’s email address, but as yet we don’t know who’s end the problem is at.
@Rudy, any chance that you have an old email filter in place at your end (which you may have forgot about) which is moving them away from the folder you expect them to be in?
sorry, my mistake, i am such an idiot, i requested a free chapter with the wrong email address and it worked
so i went back, and over the course of the last half hour or so, have requested three different book sample chapters with the same email address i use for notifications, and those have ~not~ come through
i double-checked my mail filters and there’s nothing on this end that would turn your emails away
and as i said, i’m using the same email address on a couple of other vbulletin forums and those are coming through fine
I actually have none. I had to specifically subscribe to this thread. It is certainly not the default behavior in our test environment. Can you see new subscriptions being formed against your profile?
I’m not quite ready to escalate this yet as I’m not convinced that there is actually a problem. I wonder if it is to do with your settings. I don’t mean to sound patronising… I know you’re no newbie, but would you mind checking?
It’s actually more likely to be Rudy’s ISP blocking the email from Sendgrid’s servers. I’m having a dev look up your address now Rudy, to see if that’s the case. If so, you might need to have a word with your ISP or use the email address that works.