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Re: Not Receiving Email Alerts

#221 Post by RAZORBACK » Wed Feb 27, 2013 8:41 pm

Got two notifications today relating to the free films forum (for The Paperboy & Losing The Plot) but there was about a forty minute delay from the creation of each thread to a notification being sent/received.

Up to now I've received notifications usually about five minutes after a thread has been created so just wanted to ask if there was something specific that happened today to cause the delay?
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Re: Not Receiving Email Alerts

#222 Post by steve9872 » Wed Feb 27, 2013 9:08 pm

The internet and mail systems can be mysterious at times. Mail that isn't delivered immediately is held in a queue on a mailserver and waits until it can deliver it. Sometimes it can be months.
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Re: Not Receiving Email Alerts

#223 Post by RAZORBACK » Wed Feb 27, 2013 9:13 pm

So basically it's not 100% reliable?
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Re: Not Receiving Email Alerts

#224 Post by steve9872 » Wed Feb 27, 2013 9:17 pm

The vast majority of emails are delivered in seconds, but sometimes the route they take ends up in significant delays. Its usually trustworthy but sometimes a mailserver gets a mood on and delays happen.
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Re: Not Receiving Email Alerts

#225 Post by RAZORBACK » Wed Feb 27, 2013 9:32 pm

All in all the notification system has worked pretty well so far (and has certainly helped me out in the last few weeks) but it's worth knowing that occasionally it will experience the odd hiccup (through no fault of it's own)...
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Re: Not Receiving Email Alerts

#226 Post by steve9872 » Sun Mar 03, 2013 12:37 pm

steve9872 wrote:The vast majority of emails are delivered in seconds, but sometimes the route they take ends up in significant delays. Its usually trustworthy but sometimes a mailserver gets a mood on and delays happen.
As an example of this a pm alert from Fri 01/03/2013 17:39 arrived Sun 03/03/2013 10:31
Its not the worst example of this as i've had a delay of months before now, but this example clearly shows the system isn't 100% perfect.
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Re: Not Receiving Email Alerts

#227 Post by prettyxcool » Sun Mar 03, 2013 1:47 pm

steve9872 wrote: i've had a delay of months before now
Me too! :P
I never rely on my alerts totally. Sometimes, I get it within minutes, other times like you say, it could arrive months later! :D :D
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Re: Not Receiving Email Alerts

#228 Post by bridgemoose » Sun Mar 03, 2013 2:29 pm

I've noticed that if I'm not on the forum for a couple of days, the notifications stop. It actually says in the emails "No more
notifications will be sent until you visit the forum and read the thread while logged in". So, if it's been a while from when I receive the email and when it was posted, I know that I've missed out so don't bother clicking on the link. That means, though, that I've shot myself in the foot because then I don't actually get sent anymore notifications!!!

Sorted that by now coming onto the forum daily to catch up with stuff!!!

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Not Receiving Forum E-mails Even Though Subscribed

#229 Post by ClarkKent77 » Thu Apr 04, 2013 6:43 pm

Hey guys,

I'm subscribed to the Free Films board, but I only receive E-mails about screenings around half the time or less. Anyone know why this is?

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Anyone Else Only Get Sporadic Screener E-Mails?

#230 Post by ClarkKent77 » Mon Apr 08, 2013 9:19 pm

Hi guys,

I've missed a few screenings because I didn't get E-mails about them - despite being subscribed to the free films forum. By the time I found the link later by checking the forum (just in case) all the tickets were gone. This happens quite a lot. When I first subscribed to the forum, I got E-mails about every screening. Now, I don't get any at all.

Anyone else have this problem? And if so, is there a solution? I've tried un-subscribing and subscribing again, but that only 'worked' briefly.

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