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E-mail Notifications;clarification Required Please

#1 ruby1

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Posted 31 August 2007 - 06:39 AM

I notice that there are several options we can choose for receiving e mail notifications to replies; one of which is 'delayed'

?? how 'delayed' IS it? an hour, two hours , a day? can this be clarified please :flowers:

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Posted 31 August 2007 - 08:15 AM

From the board "help":

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Please note that there are four different types of subscriptions:

Immediate Email Notification
This option will send out a notification immediately after a new topic or reply has been made regardless of your activity.

Delayed Emailed Notification
This option will send out a notification if a new topic or reply has been made and you're not active on the board.

Daily Email Digest
This option will send out a daily digest showing all new replies or topics for that day.

Weekly Email Digest
This option will send out a weekly digest showing all new replies or topics for that week.

Help for Email Notification of new messages is h e r e

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Posted 31 August 2007 - 09:15 AM

I would avoid using the delayed email notification. It's a bit buggy and we're seeing some problems with it.

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Posted 31 August 2007 - 12:36 PM

KoanYorel, on Aug 31 2007, 03:15 PM, said:

I would avoid using the delayed email notification. It's a bit buggy and we're seeing some problems with it.

hint taken :thumbsup:

I have changed some settings

as to the (very obvious!)help section; I did not get that far in my search :flowers:

#5 ruby1

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Posted 30 September 2007 - 05:01 AM

is the email notification facility disabled as none seem to be reaching me; my control panel is correctly set up :thumbsup:

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Posted 30 September 2007 - 05:21 PM

Make sure you change your notification type of immediate. If you have it set to delayed there is a very good chance you will not get the message. I see that your subscriptions are a mix of delayed and immediate.

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#7 ruby1

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Posted 30 September 2007 - 05:28 PM

I had notification of that reply but I have others that are now lost in the ether of the internet :thumbsup:

I will change them all to immediate perhaps?

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Posted 30 September 2007 - 05:38 PM

Yes...delayed has major problems.

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Posted 30 September 2007 - 05:43 PM

Grinler, on Sep 30 2007, 11:38 PM, said:

Yes...delayed has major problems.

I have had at least two threads on immediate response but got nowt from them either and to my surprise found replies on the board I knew nowt about ; could it all be connected? I have them ALL now on immediate :thumbsup:

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Posted 30 September 2007 - 06:36 PM

Let's see what happens now and go from there. If it continues, we can do some testing.

#11 ruby1

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Posted 01 October 2007 - 09:40 AM

I have noticed that, when you start a new topic or subscribe to a thread or topic, having ticked to receive e mail notifications, the board default is for delayed notifications and the change has to be made in the control panel to up it to immediate :thumbsup: