Problem with notifications.

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Achaean
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Re: Problem with notifications.

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St_W wrote:Maybe the mails are rejected by the mail server even before they would be put into the spam box. Especially Microsoft's MSN/Hotmail/Live/Outlook.com mail service is known for doing that. Unfortunately you can't do anything about that (except using a different mail service).
I use GMail.
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sancho3
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Re: Problem with notifications.

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Try switching to a different email and provider.
I am using yandex.
St_W
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Re: Problem with notifications.

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sancho3 wrote:Try switching to a different email and provider.
I am using yandex.
GMail should be fine, but maybe switching is still worth a try.
Yandex is probably only advisable if you are russian (including other post-soviet states) or can read russian - at least I haven't seen that service being used anywhere else.
Achaean
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Re: Problem with notifications.

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I tried Yandex before some months (the international-English site-interface, not the Russian one), still seems to be faced technical difficulties at the time, because when I tried to login (after succesfully completing registration), it informed me (after entering username - pwd), to enter my secret question as well, although I didn't provide one!
So I gave up Yandex, though I can test with other mail providers.
sancho3
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Re: Problem with notifications.

Post by sancho3 »

For sure test with something other than you are using.
I am in western Canada and I use Yandex. It is a Russian email server. Like any other server (including gmail), don't put sensitive info up on it.
I just think that it is the email itself that is borking Achaean.
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