not getting email notifications

[confused]

The last few days I havnt been geting an email to say someone has replied to a post, nor have I been getting one to say a PM has arrived.
Does anyone else have this? (Yes, my options are set right, in fact I havnt touched them for ages, I checked today though just in case the recent upgrades had buggered anyting else up)

 

[Optegris]

Join the club, I haven't been getting notifications for a while even though I have the subscriptions set-up.

 

[Subbynet]

Snap here too

 

Mine seem fine.

 

I take back what I posted, it's stopped working for me now.

 

[HC-Martin]

Spoke too soon Carl!

 

[DanMartin]

Many apologies for the current lack of email notifications. We are working on the problem and it will be fixed as soon as possible. Thankyou for your patience.

 

[stugster]

You know about the problem, but I feel obliged to annoy you with another post to tell you mine has stopped working too!

 

[confused]

haha mines fixed

 

[Ozzy]

Yeah the joys of SPF records and MX records .
Sorry guys the migration to a new server didn't go quite to plan but it IS fixed now

 

[stugster]

I do not concur Ozzy Still problematic my end.

 

Ditto, stopped working since last night for me.

 

[Darren Falkingham]

Hi there,

We've updated the MX records on the server, so hopefully you not seeing them yet is just a symptom of a delay in the domain propagation ... but please let me know if you still have problems tomorrow!

Sorry again... :redface:

 

[stugster]

It's a bit of a worry seeing as you guys are supposedly specialists of "Internet Communities"

 

[Darren Falkingham]

Hi stugster,

We are, that's our business and has been for over 10 years. However, all of our other online business communities run on our own in-house platform, from our own server farm in Bristol. vBulletin is new to that server environment, and with the complexities of putting web accelerators in front of the vBulletin platform, we have experienced a few hurdles.

I hope it's not spoiled your enjoyment of the forums though.

Cheers for now,
Darren

 

[stugster]

Nah, don't worry

The enjoyment went out the window when I realised the forums are now plagued with Chinese trying to drop ship to anyone and everyone.

Or the wa*kers spamming all over the place.

Or the idiots that come on and ask ridiculous questions that could have been answered easier by typing in the keywords into google.

But no, being locked out of the forums, having them go down, and no longer receiving the notifications that let me come back and view all that rubbish has certainly not made me enjoy it any less

 

[Darren Falkingham]

Brilliant! Thanks for the reply stugster. I know what you mean...

Now the server seems settled, we'll be looking at anti-spam plug-ins, upgrades (and whatever else we can find!) to try and take out the rubbish.

Glad you're still a happy UKBFer!

Cheers,
Darren

 

[estwig]

Stuart are you listening mate.........

Stop picking on the mods!!!!!!

It is just not fair mate!!!!

 

And I thought I moaned...

Stop moaning Stuart!!

Everything is working well for me apart from email notifications, but I can cope with that.

 

[ken_uk]

Just write a bit code to hold new posts for a new member for moderation if no mods are online, and alert the mods of new posts by new members when they are online.

Pay the mods a salary.. Only fair..

Nothing will stop people asking questions that can be answered easily on google, and if you did find it, the forums would soon cease to exist, as almost every post could be answered by looking on google...
[edit]
Plus sometimes, some people may ask a question online, knowing full well it will be indexed in google *very* quickly (sometimes in a few minutes on this forum)
in order that 'someone' else may read that question. The asking of the question may be more important than the answer, if you get my drift.
That does not happen often, and usually when it does, its due to spammy reasons, but not always,
[/edit]

The only thing I found odd about the server move was the forum being down while the DNS transferred. I would have just kept the new and the old server up, but pointed the database to the new server, so both the old and the new wrote to the new database (do same for file uploads).
DNS propogates, but people can use either in the meantime, depending on the state of their dns.
Zero downtime during propogation.
Saying that, I could not be bothered to do that last time I moved, but I dont charge for the service....

 

[confused]

mines broke again

 

[elaine@cheapaccounting]

mine doesn't work - do I have to reset anything.

 

[Optegris]

Yep mines gone too again....

Cmon Sift, sort it out!