Instant e-mail notifications have stopped being sent

[Lefty Scaevola]

Password reset done

 

[MattZed]

Thank-you, Riso and Lefty! =)

 

[Riso]

[13:00:06] <Protagonist> I think my account was disabled (I haven't been on here in a while) is there anyway to reactivate it?
[13:02:19] <Snarko> Your forum account? Or your IRC account?
[13:02:32] <Protagonist> My Forum Account.
[13:03:37] <Snarko> Never heard of an account being disabled due to inactivity before, didn't even know that was possible.
[13:04:17] <Protagonist> It might not be that. For whatever reason, it's not letting me post.
[13:05:42] <Snarko> What happens when you try?
[13:07:46] <Protagonist> It says that I "Do not have permission to view this page". Hm...maybe I never activated my account?

 

[Lefty Scaevola]

Protagonist account manually activated.

 

[Askthepizzaguy]

Hi Lefty.

I have a yahoo mail account, and I'm getting zero emails from this site, have gotten zero for quiiiiite a while. All year, I think. No spam folder, nothin.

Could you work your magic with my account? I thought no one was even talking to me, but I got PMs and no notifications, no notifications for subscribed threads, etc.

Anything you can do here would be most appreciated.

 

[Nightinggale]

Could you work your magic with my account?

If they could do that, the problem would have been gone long ago. Sadly it appears to be rather common that people get no email notifications.

In around two weeks it will have lasted a year. That's an awful long time for such a severe problem and I can't help wondering if it would be working now if the entire email system had been scrapped and replaced with a brand new install.

 

[Takhisis]

^Probably the server software is Windows Vista.

 

[GenMarshall]

In around two weeks it will have lasted a year. That's an awful long time for such a severe problem

I agree. You'd think that I'd be resolved by now. Unfortunately, this isn't the case .

 

[Melda]

It's pretty much devastated democracy games.

 

[Lefty Scaevola]

Hi Lefty.
Could you work your magic with my account? I thought no one was even talking to me, but I got PMs and no notifications, no notifications for subscribed threads, etc.

Anything you can do here would be most appreciated.

The automatic emails are a global setting, not an individual one, nor do I even have access to to the one involved here. It is currently switched off by CFC's host, Atomic Gamer, until the security/exploit problem is isolated and fixed.

 

[Takhisis]

And what happens to AtomicGamer's own emails and those of the other forums they host?

 

[Lefty Scaevola]

They would be on different servers, as well as different programs. I have no information about other than CFC being affected or any other information about them.

 

[Askthepizzaguy]

For the time being, I can be reached here.

http://www.quicktopic.com/51/H/k3hEVvwtHywPh

If anything changes, please leave a note.

 

[GenMarshall]

Given the length of time this has been going on. I doubt anything would change.

 

[Whomp]

Hey Lefty, Ainwood or other moderators--I forgot my password and have tried resetting it on two of my three devices but can't remember it. On this device I'm logged on so I was able to post here. Can I get a password reset email? I have sent some requests but can't find it anywhere.

 

[Whomp]

Thank you!

 

[Nightinggale]

Something is happening. I just received around 150 emails in 20 minutes and it would appear that they keep on coming steadily. They appear to be all the messages that I have been missing for quite a while, but they are coming in random order, making meaning those from today are mixed with those from last year

Hopefully it will finish eventually and then just work. The big question is if or when it will be reliable enough to count on no new posts due to lack of emails.

 

[Takhisis]

Indeed, Mr. Nightinggale! I've checked my spam folder. Today I have received an email telling me that in mid-December my PM inbox was full.

 

[DarkScythe]

Haha. Glad to see I'm not the only one coming here confused about the sudden deluge of email notifications.

It feels like the notifications hadn't worked for a while, but then suddenly became "unclogged" and all the backed up email notices are coming all at once.

Was this due to some action on the admins' part?

 

[Takhisis]

I still want my Gallery updates!