Although I have checked "follow this topic" I'm not getting e-mail notifications for my posts. Is there something else i should be checking off? thanks Nick
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Although I have checked "follow this topic" I'm not getting e-mail notifications for my posts. Is there something else i should be checking off? thanks Nick
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Nick, The forum switched over to Crowdstack. Since that time, AOL and Yahoo addresses aren't getting emails in a timely fashion or they go to spam, or you don't get them at all. You can add alerts@crowdstack.com to you address book to see if that helps.
More info in this thread
Also check out the topic I posted today in the tech help category on the same issue. Rich provided a solution that is working for me.
Rod
Nick, My emails were coming late to my yahoo email. I did all the things suggested in this topic and the linked topic, with them still coming late. I ended up making a new Gmail account just for OGR Forum emails using the same settings, and they have been coming in like clockwork.
Thanks Mark, I have a Gmail address I'll switch over and see what happens. Thanks again.
This is probably a stupid question ,but i don't know how to add the , alerts @ crowdstack.com to my address book ,can anyone tell me how to do this ? ,as i am having problems getting e-mails going to the right place .
It worked Mark, just switching over to Gmail must have been all it needed as I don't know how to ad alerts@crowdstack.com either.
Nick, that’s good.
I’m not sure how to add it either. I didn’t look into it since I was using Yahoo. The other topic discussion led me to believe adding it would only help folks using emails other than AOL or Yahoo.
Every email program/service has an address book. It's a basic feature of any email program. Go to wherever the address book is in your email program and click to add a new contact. Enter the "alerts@crowdstack.com" email address into the new contact window and save it to your address book. IF you have to give the contact a name, just call it "OGR Forum" or something like that.
If you are not using your address book, you are wasting a LOT of time sending your emails! If you have all your regular contacts in your address book, sending email to one of them is as easy as entering the first couple of characters of their name. If they are in your address book the address will pop up for you. I would be absolutely LOST without my email address book.
Rich ,i did what you said ,i hope i understand what to do ,i put the alerts@crowdstack.com in with all the other e-mail address's i have ,i think that's what you meant ,& i went into my profile & did the solution Rod Stewart used ,so we will see how things workout .
I use Fiirefox with Frontiernet, which is tied to Yahoo.I skipped Firefox and logged in directly at Frontier to check my mail. All my alerts were in that spam folder. I identified them all as not spam and I have been receiving them all on Firefox ever since, immediately after getting an alert.
Firefox is a web browser, not an email client. You can use Firefox to log into an on-line email service, but Firefox has nothing to do with what happens with your email. That is entirely under the control of the web site that Firefox has gone to to retrieve your email.
My mistake. You're absolutely correct, Rich. I meant to say Thunderbird. Too many birthdays at work again.
Thunderbird is a great email client. I have used it for years.
You can set up filters to sort the mail into separate folders, as well as tell Thunderbird that your forum emails are not junk.
I couldn't tell Thunderbird that forum emails weren't junk because I wasn't getting any. They were stopped at Yahoo.
John H posted:I couldn't tell Thunderbird that forum emails weren't junk because I wasn't getting any.
Well, that would be a problem, wouldn't it?
Glad you got it solved.
Fewer e-mails might be considered a blessing,
John, too many birthdays is a good thing! I can identify with you. After early retirement I tried my hand at a low level tech support job. I never had so much stress in 43 years of working. I was always calling things the wrong name. My blood pressure went way high. I’m not working now. LOL
I to was having trouble with e-mails going to spam ,getting late e-mails ,so i did add alerts@crowdstack.com to my contacts list ,my e-mails are now mostly going to my in box,& not to spam ,however i am getting e-mails for many subjects i have no interest in & from posts that i have not responded to ,in my primary notifications the only thing i have checked is when someone follows you, when someone likes your content ,when your content is featured ,& when someone mentions you ,in settings i have instant notifications by e-mail ,&on site alert checked ,HOW DO I STOP FROM GETTING ALL THESE E-MAILS THAT I HAVE NO INTEREST IN from being sent to me by e-mail ,i have no idea how to do this ? Thanks in advance .
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