Email notifications often failing

[dant]

Forum URL: towlerateam.freeforums.net/

Good afternoon

I established this forum quite a while ago for family members.  Each of us have often found that the email notifications (of a new post) fail to be sent from the forum. It will often happen that many posts are missed because no notice was sent, only to login and find many posts unread and having had no notice of them being created.

We've all got notification settings set to INSTANT, yet this problem persists.

I'm wondering if it's because it's a free forum and as such, notifications are "best efforts" and not assured?  I appreciate that emails are not a guaranteed delivery in any case, but the number of missed posts is so high, that it discounts the possibility of random loss of email on the internet. The problem is entirely centred around the forum service and no other delivery is impacted.

I'd be very grateful if you could please advise how to resolve this problem - to improve our family comm's.

[Craig]

Hi

It may be there is a bit of a clog in the system. One of the team members will check the emails for you when they get online a little later today.

Apologies for the inconvenience, and if i can invite you to check back for a reply from around 17:00 GMT, one of the staff should have replied.

Craig

[yogibearbull]

Those with AOL email may face AOL-related issues. From some discussion sites, AOL blocks e-mails completely. PB is generally OK so far but inexplicably some AOL emails are received normally, others go to spam, and rarely, some are missed. Other email services may do something similar.

[Scott]

dant, I've sent you a PM regarding your issue.