Email notification disabled

[john]

Unfortunately I have to disable email notification for the time being. I'm not happy about it but for the moment it's necessary. Anyone who tried to access the server in the last 40 minutes will no doubt be aware that it wasn't working and I'm 99% certain this was due to the email notification (many people receive email notification and that's one email per person per message). Until things are clearer to me (I'm consulting with the ISP again) it'll have to be disabled.

 

[john]

Not any more, it's baaaaack...

 

[david]

And now the chat room's down. I get a fatal error message when I click on "chatting".

 

[john]

That's because I was tweaking it. Thanks for letting me know though.

 

[john]

Right, I'm having issues with my ISP again so I've had to disable email notification _again_.

 

[john]

I've just been informed by the hosting company that there was a policy change a few months ago so the number of emails sent by all customer servers here has been limited to 50 every 5 minutes. That means that something like 90% of forum notification emails haven't been going through. So all of this trouble over email notification was academic because they weren't allowing all of the emails out any way.

Well the long and the short of it is that email notification has been disabled for the foreseeable future. I apologise for that.

 

[joeri]

Maybe you could work out a new system of email notification? Like 1 mail/topic instead of 1 mail/answer in a topic. This would mean a drastic decrease in the number of outgoing mails and still everyone would be informed about new replies.

Just a suggestion, don't know if it's a solution or even if it's possible on this forum or for your ISP.

 

[john]

Thanks for the suggestion but it's not possible to configure the forum software that way. Joeri, welcome to Caudata.org by the way

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