Thread: Mail broke?

I am not receiving any mail for the last few days. I am in daily subscription. PM notifications also don't come. Is this just me or is everyone noticing it? I checked my mail on file to make sure some glitch hadn't changed it. :sundecided:

geeeeeeeze I wish, but no the spam and crap is still comin

Originally Posted by Rhiannon

geeeeeeeze I wish, but no the spam and crap is still comin

Is that what you call WTF mail

Lol Rhia, we don't send spam and crap.

I believe Autumn's referring to WTF's mail server. I don't know what could be the problem but I should probably check that the dns zone is fine since I managed to mess up my other one pretty bad and just cleaning it up fixed issues, it's also on the same server.

as far as I know all is gtg

grim added 4 Minutes and 38 Seconds later...

I don't know, I'm getting them just fine. You sure it's not getting blocked as spam on your end?

I get them fine too but some mail servers are different as I learned with stupid Yawhore!..

Originally Posted by grim

I don't know, I'm getting them just fine. You sure it's not getting blocked as spam on your end?

Positive. My mail client only blocks when I tell it to. It just suddenly stopped working for no reason that I can see.

It's not always a client, it can be the server or even your ISP on your end.

Not saying it is, but the client is not the only spot that this can happen.

Do you have another email you could try?

Originally Posted by Autumn

Positive. My mail client only blocks when I tell it to. It just suddenly stopped working for no reason that I can see.

Autumn, if I gave you an email addy to email me at this domain, could you from the email that's not getting emails? This way if I don't get it, you might get it bounced back with an explanation why it's not reaching it's destination, this is what happened with my design domain and yahoo email, the yahoo bounced back email explained the problem and we were able to fix it so I could start receiving emails from there again.

Just trying to narrow it down.

Sure PM me an email

Autumn added 1 Minutes and 25 Seconds later...

Just as a matter of interest, I have has one from seotalk since WTF mail stopped.

They are on different servers.

Did you change your email address in profile?

No I didn't change it. All other mail arrives just fine.

Originally Posted by Autumn

No I didn't change it. All other mail arrives just fine.

I got your email, just replied, let me know if the reply arrives.

Originally Posted by Autumn

No I didn't change it. All other mail arrives just fine.

That does not even remotely mean it's not being blocked on your end.

Ok, she got my email from this forums email address, it's the same one the forum uses to send mail.

I will send you some info Grim.

A standard mailing though is not automated, spam type items look for automated look and other factors.

grim added 48 Minutes and 22 Seconds later...

It appears from the bounce messages it was indeed your server refusing the email. I have tweaked some settings on this side, I hope it will fix the issue for you. I just hope it does not cause any problems elsewhere.

Let us know if it starts working, it may take a bit.

Originally Posted by grim

Let us know if it starts working, it may take a bit.

How long is a bit?

/me sets this post to instant notification.

No idea, if it is the reason your server is blocking mail from here it could take standard propagation times.

Yayyy I just got a couple of mails! One was for a PM received yesterday

Edit: and now a few more came in!

I am only getting some e-mails about replies to threads I am subscribed to. Most are not getting to my e-mail box for some reason and I have to keep checking my user CP.

Check your settings on your end. spam filters can easily block them. That is what was happening to Autumn, spam settings on the server bouncing them back.

Originally Posted by grim

Check your settings on your end. spam filters can easily block them. That is what was happening to Autumn, spam settings on the server bouncing them back.

LOL, I received an e-mail about your reply this time.

I have not changed any settings in my e-mail filtering or my WTF account. I do use SpamAssassin and I wonder if some of the WTF e-mails are receiving a high spam score while others are not. Maybe there are things in the subject lines of some of the e-mails that SpamAssasin doesn't like.

Could be, there however are other things other than spamassassin which can cause emails not to be delivered depending on your setup

Originally Posted by grim

Could be, there however are other things other than spamassassin which can cause emails not to be delivered depending on your setup

Of course. I don't have any other spam filters, though. I did, however, recently install a new firewall script called csf, but this problem was happening before I installed that. It could be security stuff on my ISP's end of things. I don't know if they're doing any minor e-mail filtering.

Originally Posted by grim

Check your settings on your end. spam filters can easily block them. That is what was happening to Autumn, spam settings on the server bouncing them back.

Musta been my ISP, I can't control their settings. Nothing is blocked by me. And I get reply notification from two other forums at the same addy just fine.

I am receiving more e-mails from WTF now. The Gremlins must realize I'm on to them.

Yeah I am still getting them. I had 5 days to catch up on

Originally Posted by Autumn

Musta been my ISP, I can't control their settings. Nothing is blocked by me. And I get reply notification from two other forums at the same addy just fine.

That's why I wanted you to try another email addy

Originally Posted by grim

That's why I wanted you to try another email addy

I could have changed my email to another addy, but then you wouldn't have fixed this