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Title: Emails for reviews
Post by: nicksgal on January 25, 2007, 04:50:53 PM
I set up my account so that I would be notified each time I recieved a new review. The problem is, I aften don't recieve them for at least an hour. In fact, one just came for a review that was written yesterday.

Is this a problem with the server or my email?
Title: Re: Emails for reviews
Post by: RokofAges75 on January 25, 2007, 04:57:06 PM
It's not just you; sometimes I don't get them at all.  Sometimes I think they get sent to my spam folder, but not always.  I go through periods of time where I get them every time and then other times where I don't get them at all.
Title: Re: Emails for reviews
Post by: nicksgal on January 25, 2007, 05:08:01 PM
The spam folder thing happens to me also... :'(
Title: Re: Emails for reviews
Post by: mare on January 25, 2007, 05:37:35 PM
Actually it's a growing problem that we keep getting a ton of mail bouncing back to us saying mail service is delayed etc... not sure what that means exactly but my guess is lot's of things are bouncing because we have outdated email adresses. I'm not sure if that would effect everyone or not. Chaos might be able to answer that better, but I can just say whenever I check mail there are tons of those waiting in our inbox.

I tend to get my review mails pretty late as well. lol



Title: Re: Emails for reviews
Post by: nicksgal on January 25, 2007, 08:05:14 PM
Just thought I'd add that my information is up to date and correct.

But I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one having a problem. :)
Title: Re: Emails for reviews
Post by: Chaos on January 26, 2007, 07:41:47 AM
There seems to be a big delay for a large portion of the messages that go to yahoo.com addresses. I've been seeing notices of messages that are delayed up to 72 hours. Unfortunately, I believe that it's a problem on the yahoo side since other messages from the site seem to be getting through okay. I did a few test messages to my non-yahoo address and they went through.

I'm not sure it will help, but you might try adding mods@absolutechaos.net to your address book and see if that will help it get through their spam filter (not sure that it will, but worth a shot...?)
Title: Re: Emails for reviews
Post by: nicksgal on January 26, 2007, 03:55:47 PM
Thank you for the response Ash! :) I will add you all right now. :) And maybe it will get the messaes through faster also. :)
Title: Re: Emails for reviews
Post by: RokofAges75 on January 26, 2007, 05:06:09 PM
There seems to be a big delay for a large portion of the messages that go to yahoo.com addresses. I've been seeing notices of messages that are delayed up to 72 hours. Unfortunately, I believe that it's a problem on the yahoo side since other messages from the site seem to be getting through okay. I did a few test messages to my non-yahoo address and they went through.

I'm not sure it will help, but you might try adding mods@absolutechaos.net to your address book and see if that will help it get through their spam filter (not sure that it will, but worth a shot...?)

I'm not surprised.  I like Yahoo, but yeah, that makes sense... mine is a yahoo account, and I have seen some of my review emails in my spam folder.  Not always though.  It's weird.
Title: Re: Emails for reviews
Post by: mare on January 26, 2007, 05:12:09 PM
I just read a message from yahoo on my mailing list. It said all yahoo mails are being delayed for some reason. LOL odd.
Title: Re: Emails for reviews
Post by: nicksgal on January 26, 2007, 05:41:51 PM
Why are they being delayed? ???
Title: Re: Emails for reviews
Post by: Purpura Lipstick on February 06, 2007, 10:43:39 PM
I've found that I've been bouncing because I have too many items on my safe list so lots of things go automatically into my spam folder and I guess some things don't like that and bounce them. *shrugs* I've done some cleaning and have more room on my safe list now
Title: Re: Emails for reviews
Post by: Chaos on February 07, 2007, 09:09:18 AM
Why are they being delayed? ???

I'm not sure what the hold up is, but I'm *guessing* that the astounding increase in spam that's been occuring the past few months is wreaking havoc on the yahoo spam-filters. The same thing happened to the mail servers where I work. Spam has gotten absolutely ridiculous and pretty much the only choices are for them to probably spend millions beefing up their servers and network capabilities, or delay mail while it goes through the spam filter.

Of course that's just a guess as to what's happening, but it seems pretty likely scenerio. A lot of mail that goes to my yahoo mailing address is really slow to reach me these days.
Title: Re: Emails for reviews
Post by: nicksgal on February 07, 2007, 02:48:10 PM
Yet another reason to hate spam. *shakes head*

I'm almost inclined to switch it to my University email, but I can forsee that being a bad idea...