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Started by Karma, August 06, 2013, 10:33:25 PM

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Ravensahnk

#25
August 08, 2013, 02:33:29 AM
I had this issue a year or two ago with this website and Gmail.  Google for some reason is just a pain in the ass (but I'm stubborn and enjoy it), I haven't received anything since late Tuesday Evening.  I did manage to get only one email from the morning on Wednesday, but that was only perhaps a few minutes ago after refreshing it constantly.  I have checked my notifications and the count is up to approximately five emails unaccounted for.  :\  It's frustrating, and I did file a claim ticket with Google and E is on my white list and Circles, however nothing is still showing up, and I did just check my Spam box as well and nothing.

Vekseid

#26
August 08, 2013, 12:18:55 PM
More mail seems to be getting through now, but the current backlog stands at 1811 mails for gmail and it's basically random whose get retried during the small windows in which gmail accepts.

I'm going to temporarily disable all notifications for members who use gmail so that people who are registering, resetting passwords, etc. can get mails. Please refrain from re-enabling them until I give the okay.

Vekseid

#27
August 08, 2013, 01:11:07 PM
Should probably note 'cuz it's not obvious

There were still ~1800 affected mails in the queue when I turned off notifications for gmail users. So if you've got one of those 1800 you're still going to get that, eventually (has sent about a hundred of them so far).

Ember Star

#28
August 08, 2013, 01:12:46 PM
I'm still getting notifications
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AurelieCatena

#29
August 09, 2013, 08:06:35 AM
Notifications have been random and with long delay since at least yesterday. I am on Gmail too. I hope this will soon be solved as I use the notifications a lot.

Oniya

#30
August 09, 2013, 08:48:23 AM
Veks has turned off notifications to gmail for a bit, to allow the backlog to go down and to give new sign-ups a fighting chance of getting their verification email.  There will be an announcement when they can be turned back on.
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Vekseid

#31
August 09, 2013, 05:43:09 PM
Oh fuck.

Spamhaus has dropped the entire /18 we belong to into their sbl.

That explains what is going on, at least.

steelsmiter

#32
August 09, 2013, 05:44:52 PM
is there anything individual users can do at that point?
I don't play in PMs
Who wants to join an incest registry?
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Oniya

#33
August 09, 2013, 05:45:03 PM
sbl = Spam BlackList, I presume?

What's a /18?
"Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women.~*~*~Don't think it's all been done before
And in that endeavor, laziness will not do." ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~Don't think we're never gonna win this war
Robin Williams-Dead Poets Society ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~Don't think your world's gonna fall apart
I do have a cause, though.  It's obscenity.  I'm for it.  - Tom Lehrer~*~All you need is your beautiful heart
O/O's Updated 5/11/21 - A/A's - Current Status! - Writing a novel - all draws for Fool of Fire up!
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Oreo

#34
August 09, 2013, 06:26:21 PM
Quote from: Oniya on August 09, 2013, 05:45:03 PM
sbl = Spam BlackList, I presume?

What's a /18?
I am assuming the 1800 held/missing emails mentioned above.

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and touches my dreams. - Harry Chapin

shooter6806

#35
August 09, 2013, 06:44:06 PM
Just fyi I got 2 email notifications today (yes, on gmail) about PMs from another member, but the PMs don't appear on my PM inbox. 
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Vekseid

#37
August 09, 2013, 11:15:05 PM
Quote from: shooter6806 on August 09, 2013, 06:44:06 PM
Just fyi I got 2 email notifications today (yes, on gmail) about PMs from another member, but the PMs don't appear on my PM inbox.

They'd have been delayed by nearly a day at this point, you probably already read the pms?

Geil

#38
August 11, 2013, 02:02:21 AM Last Edit: August 11, 2013, 02:05:09 AM by Geil
I'd heard there were delays so hadn't been worrying too much about it, but I've just checked my mail logs and I haven't had anything from E for almost exactly two days (Aug  9 07:45:28 BST) and I don't use gmail. I have at least two or three chat threads on notify so I know at the very least there should have been some activity e-mailed to me overnight both nights.

(Where I can control it I have others' spam filtering turned off and just use my own Bayesian filter locally. Ah, but stuff from E doesn't even go through that filter.)

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Ravensahnk

#39
August 11, 2013, 02:07:39 AM
Geil, Veks actually disabled email notification for a few days, in a previous post in this thread (or it may be in the "Well Fuck" post he made a day or so ago) but they are disabled and he said to give it a couple of days before enabling them.  I hadn't received anything over the past couple of days and then suddenly yesterday I started to receive emails about posts that had been made on Tuesday or Wednesday.  I would wait until Sunday Evening at the latest before setting up emails again.  Unless Veks says otherwise.

Geil

#40
August 11, 2013, 02:19:23 AM
Ah, sorry. I misunderstood. I thought they'd only been completely disabled for those going to gmail accounts.

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Vekseid

#41
August 11, 2013, 05:10:50 AM
Mail providers don't like to see huge spikes in mail traffic. We'd been pushing a thousand emails an hour.

Beguile's Mistress

#42
August 11, 2013, 10:17:56 AM
Too bad their algorithms can't factor in the number of users on a site when they look at those numbers and see we are a busy place as far as posting goes.  Knowing the type of site we are would be a with interpreting the traffic, too, since all of it is intrasite to begin with.

swedeboy

#43
August 11, 2013, 12:25:14 PM
I was going to start a new thread which is kind of related to this issue but I thought it would be better to just bring it up here.

Well, my notification settings keep getting changed all by themselves! I request notifications by email for PMs and Topic Replies, and today, I noticed they were changed to 'NEVER.' So I fixed the issue and got notifications back in my email. And a few hours later, I again stopped getting notifications and I went to the Account Settings and the settings were again changed to 'Never.'

Any idea what is wrong?

Karma

#44
August 11, 2013, 12:32:40 PM
Read the whole thread.

Rogue

#45
August 11, 2013, 12:49:16 PM
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