OcUK Forum Emails

Danger Phoenix · 16 Oct 2006 at 23:04

For some reason I have stopped receiving emails when topics I am subscribed to are replied to :confused:

Oblivious · 16 Oct 2006 at 23:38

Who is your email provider?

Its most likely being marked as spam and filtered.

danza · 16 Oct 2006 at 23:41

Oblivious said:
Who is your email provider?

Its most likely being marked as spam and filtered.

Most of it is spam though!

MasterMike · 16 Oct 2006 at 23:42

All of mine go in my spam box - I reckon your provider's spam filter has recently been changed.

Werewolf · 17 Oct 2006 at 00:10

danza said:
Most of it is spam though!

Not technically if you've signed up for the updates :shrug:

Danger Phoenix · 17 Oct 2006 at 00:16

The mail is going to my own domain name... and nothing has changed... if there was any spam, it would go into my Junk E-Mail folder, but its not in there.

All emails from OcUK have stopped completely... without a single setting being changed :confused:

Garp · 17 Oct 2006 at 07:58

Danger Phoenix said:
The mail is going to my own domain name... and nothing has changed... if there was any spam, it would go into my Junk E-Mail folder, but its not in there.

All emails from OcUK have stopped completely... without a single setting being changed

Your hosting provider has probably done the same thing mine did 6 months ago, and a large number of hosting companies and ISPs are switching over to using; a technique called Sender Mail Verification (or Sender Address Verification depending on what program they're using on their mail servers), which checks back on a domains mailservers to see if an address is actually valid. Bit more technical details available here. For some reason [email protected] doesn't come up as valid, either because it hasn't been created as an actual e-mail address on their mailserver or their mailserver doesn't respond to reverse checks; and thus gets ditched. I'm stuck using my ISPs e-mail address despite all the issues I have with it and spam because of this. With spam currently estimated as being in the region of 90% of all e-mail traffic ISPs and hosting companies are being forced into this step in an effort to cut down on the work their mailservers are having to do.

Danger Phoenix · 17 Oct 2006 at 12:04

My bad... I was being a retard... the domain had expired