Stopped getting e-mail notifications of new posts

[KeithL]

I have stopped receiving email notifications about new posts. The last one I had seems to have been the evening of 2nd September.

Can someone take a look please.

[59Elva]

It’s comforting to know it’s not just me. I thought I messed something up or was put on the bad boy list.

[KeithL]

I should have posted earlier. The last two notifications in my list have come through on e-mail.

[KeithL]

And the notifications have stopped again. Last one I received was 10:07 19th Oct.

[geoberni]

And the notifications have stopped again. Last one I received was 10:07 19th Oct.

You think you've got problems , I was being blocked for a couple of days until it all suddenly cleared up and let me post this morning....
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[59Elva]

Im not getting the notifications I expect but Im not black listed.Have you a been a bad boy?

[geoberni]

Im not getting the notifications I expect but Im not black listed.Have you a been a bad boy?

I've encountered this about 3 times in the last 18 years or so.
I don't understand the technicalities of it, but apparently it happens because of the way many Internet Providers use 'dynamic IP allocation'. So occasionally they can switch you to an IP that has a history of being used by a Spammer; so you end up being blocked by websites or email servers that think you're the Spammer.
Powering down your Router and letting it restart will often result in it selecting a fresh Dynamic IP, clearing the Block.

[svenedin]

I am still getting e-mail notifications but few and far between because I only have it enabled for a few selected threads. I had an e-mail notification yesterday. My ISP uses static IP addresses and even if you power down the router for weeks it does not reassign a new IP address.

Stephen

[59Elva]

My only access is a phone. Not optimal. No idea what it’s doing but it’s supposedly smart.

[geoberni]

I am still getting e-mail notifications but few and far between because I only have it enabled for a few selected threads. I had an e-mail notification yesterday. My ISP uses static IP addresses and even if you power down the router for weeks it does not reassign a new IP address.

Stephen

It's happened again.... Same IP quoted. I've scanned my PC with a couple of reputable tools which have found nothing.
I'm going to try posting this from my phone but on phone data ...
And clearly it has worked.....

[simmitc]

If we're still talking about 149.13.196.48, then that address is currently blacklisted by Spamhaus and Sender Score Reputation Network. More info from those sites below. The recommended action is to contact your ISP and ask them to (a) correct the problem and (b) request removal from the blacklists.


Inclusion in the Spamhaus-ZEN Blacklist results from sub-listings in one or more the following Blacklists:

CBL - You have contracted a virus or malware that is operating a botnet, either on your email server on a workstation behind the NAT - Continual delisting requests without eliminating the virus will result in permanent blacklisting
XBL - (Spamhaus Exploits Block List) is a real-time database of IP addresses of hijacked PCs infected by illegal 3rd-party exploits, including open proxies
PBL - Spamhaus PBL is a DNSBL database of end-user IP address ranges that should not be delivering unauthenticated SMTP email to any Internet mail server except those provided for specifically by an ISP for that customer's use

Spamhaus Zen Reports Dynamic Ip Addresses

Dynamic-based Blacklists will list many DHCP ranges of IP Addresses from Internet Service Providers. You could be listed if your IP Address was previously dynamically assigned, or if your ISP gave you a static assignment and did not assign a distinguished PTR-Record, aka a "Reverse DNS Entry."

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[geoberni]

If we're still talking about 149.13.196.48, then that address is currently blacklisted by Spamhaus and Sender Score Reputation Network. More info from those sites below. The recommended action is to contact your ISP and ask them to (a) correct the problem and (b) request removal from the blacklists.

Don't even go there...as the saying goes...
The current ip ends in .26 rather than .48

I called Zzoomm this afternoon and spoke with ' technical support' at what sounded like the ubiquitous 'somewhere in Asia' call centre..

She said she could see nothing wrong, everything checked out OK so I told her that I had even tried switching the router off for a while to try and get it to find another dynamic ip, but it hadn't worked. So she said she would do a reset from her end. I should call back it the problem continues...
I don't think she had a clue what I was talking about. What she actually did was reset my router to factory settings requiring me to set up the entire wireless from scratch. Still with the '.26' ip, so nothing changed
I just wasted 30 mins setting up things again

I've now sent a written message detailing it in concise terms...
( this posted by phone on data not wifi)

[les]

I didn’t know people can get an email telling them someone has just posted on here. I just open this forum and click on new posts to find out, am I missing something ?

[simmitc]

User Control Panel (drop down next to your name in top right corner)
Board Preferences tab
Edit notification options (left hand menu)


subscriptions? I hear you ask - see the FAQs top left.

I also tend to just use the "new posts", nothing wrong with that, but emails can be useful if you are waiting for an urgent reply.

[les]

I’m quite happy with my usual method but thank you for the required email procedure.

[59Elva]

Am I wrong that email notifications are only sent to me for posts that I authored or replied to, not all posting activity?

[geoberni]

And is there still an ip problem? Apparently not...