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I have noticed that virtually all new sign-ups end up hung in the waiting for email confirmation category.

Can someone PLEASE confirm to me that email is being sent from the boards properly? Anyone who subscribes to threads, etc.

Andrew?

I have elected not to recieve email notification, and yet on occasion I still get them. I visit here at least once a day and don't see a need to be notified by email. Perhaps whatever is causing this override is fouling up the notifications?

Christina,

Can you let me know what the messages say? I see in your user information that you still have email notification turned on for when you get a private message.

We use a stock installation of vBulletin, and there haven't been any bug reports about sending out unwanted emails.

as far as as I can tell I have thread notification _on_ (always had) but have never ever recived any such mails. so sometimes I forget to peek in here.

I never got them, so I turned it off.

Apart from one concerning my recent birthday, I never had had emails from the board, but then I never expected any, either.

LOL

Bboy,

Yes I do have the private message notification turned on, but as for the others I still get them. Here is a recent email sent to me:

Hello Christina,

Leona Lee has just replied to a thread you have subscribed to entitled - New Forum - in the Transgender Lobby forum of Eunuch Archive Message Boards.

This thread is located at:

http://www.eunuch.org/vbulletin/showthr ... to=newpost

Here is the message that has just been posted:

***************

Thank's I needed that.Having a down day.You Folk's are pretty swell.

Love,Leona

***************

There may be other replies also, but you will not receive any more notifications until you visit the forum again.

Yours,

Eunuch Archive Message Boards team

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Unsubscription information:

To unsubscribe from this thread, please visit this page:

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Yes, have about three or four every day, works fine for me.

Cheers

Quillman UK:)

i have no idea how it is supposed to work or how many threads i have subscribed to, but i get a few every day.

on an unrelated note, i still can't get stats from "at the Ranch". i was just curious thats all. i posted it in 2000. it would be fun to see how many hits it has gotten. it does not show up in the stats like my other ones.

Bboy wrote: Sun Aug 15, 2004 2:40 pm Can someone PLEASE confirm to me that email is being sent from the boards properly?

I had a member send me both a private message and an email from the board. I didn't get either the email or the email notification of the private message. I have email notifications turned on.

If you used something like the Zend Development Environment and debug line by line and investigate what the variables actually contain you might discover why it never gets to the actual emailing code.

But I guess you would need an account yourself from which you don't get emails to do that.

Have you tried to just take one of us members who do get email and another who does not and snoop around in the database(mysql?) tables and rows and see if there is something weird going on there, comparing them I mean. If theres a number wrong that disables something for one person but not the other.

Since _some_ do get email I guess you could rule out the core-system itself. So if I were you I'd try focus my error-searching to member-db-tables.

Wish I could be more helpful, but I've only used vBulletin once long ago before moving on to other solutions.

Bboy wrote: Sun Aug 15, 2004 2:40 pm I have noticed that virtually all new sign-ups end up hung in the waiting for email confirmation category.

Can someone PLEASE confirm to me that email is being sent from the boards properly? Anyone who subscribes to threads, etc.

Andrew?

Sorry for the lag in responding, had some rituals in connection with the start of The Corn Moon. Anyhow, no notifications for quite some time. I re-checked my CP settings, they are OK.

I wonder if it might be the case that AOL ( and other ISPs) are filtering out the EA as spam/inappropiate sex, the way the Post Office does on its computers? Or maybe just a glitch in the software? Who knows?:(

Andrew (imported) wrote: Tue Aug 17, 2004 11:47 pm I wonder if it might be the case that AOL ( and other ISPs) are filtering out the EA as spam/inappropiate sex, the way the Post Office does on its computers? Or maybe just a glitch in the software? Who knows?:(

It is not the case for AOL. I have all of my filtered spam mail dumped in my spam folder and check it regularly. It doesn't include any from the EA boards.