Hi,
I am not getting any email notifications after the recent outage. Help.
John
a lot of us aren’t getting them john , this is about the 4th time in 3 months , it’s almost becoming laughable .
It seems like everytime they update their pop-up-ads our email notifications get screwed up. Beats me.
Steve, it’s actually more like over a year. There was a time when it was once a month. It’s not the missing notifications I dislike so much, because I know they will eventually get fixed, but it’s the days of email data dumps I have to contend with after.
Having run business email servers since the 90’s and having our employees not receive emails (critical things like Direct Deposit Notifications), I am wondering if the problem is with your email service provider, especially if your email address is through a cable company.
Cable companies are always looking to filter out spam as a “feature” to sell themselves to you the user. Unfortunatly spam filters are rather stupid and don’t know that what might be junk to some is a treasure to you.
Having had many of these cable providers on the phone over the years trying to help our employees get their emails, I can tell you that they are interlinked. Once a site gets blocked on one, it gets spread to others. We had payroll all over the country (40+ states), so it was a pain.
If kalmbachmail.com gets reported as spam, each of these counts as a complaint and counted. When a magic number gets reached, they get cut off and that block gets reported up and down the country to other cable/mail providers that subscribe to the same filter service and you have a cascading issue. NOTE: There are other triggers besides complaints that are counted and used to up your “spam score” that will get you blocked.
When I say that spam filters are stupid - we were a Temporary Placement Service that sent resumes to our clients base on their needs and requests. We once had a client that couldn’t get emails from us and their experts couldn’t figure out why. The nearest answer was that they were looking for piping designers. Piping Designer resumes would refer to “nipple fittings” and that triggered our server getting blocked. I could go on and on…
With all the email Kalmbach sends out (volume is also a negative in the scoring system) and all the crazy analysis criteria that spam filters use, it is no surprise to me that many of your emails get blocked at times.
That’s an excellent point, and it’s worth it to everyone to contact their Internet service providers/email providers and ask whether Kalmbach has been blocked.
This morning I received an email from kalmacher.com (finescalemagazine) for purchasing a “Special issue Now Available: Damaged Spring 2020” magazine. Yesterday I received an email from them advertising a special issue magazine: 180 + Inspiring Models. That means that I can receive emails from Fine Scale Modeler, but I still cannot receive email notifications. Like I said earlier, this problem only happens when the change their pop-up-ads in the website.
Hello everyone! Are you getting notifications again?
No
No
Afraid not.
No
so i have subscribed to this thread and replied. Yet i have received no notifications and when i look in my “email notifications” setting, its blank - no threads are there. Also, even after logging in, up at the top of the page next to "Welcome back, " , there is no username there. Its blank like im not logged in. Maybe i need to switch back to a gmail email address - the one 1 changed from???
The top of my page says, “Welcome back with my name”. When I go to the “email notifications” setting, it is also blank eventhough I have subscribed to a number of threads. I really do not know why these issues cannot be fixed.
edit: I went to “email notifications / forum topics” and all of my subscribed threads were there. However, I do not get any email noticications.
confusing. it also says i have not uploaded any photos either… cant subscribe to threads now either.
My “settings” state that I have not uploaded any photos either. Very strange.
They need to rework the forum so you get notifications when you check the forum and drop the email part. I was a member of another forum that did it that way and email was never used, unless admin needed to send out a message. It makes the forum experience much better in my book as well as including like buttons to eliminate the need to make short posts to let someone know you like what they posted. More people will click a like button over putting a short two word post like “Nice Build” or “Looks Good”.
Not to mention It’s a pain when you get overloaded by email from a forum you subscribed to and I’m sure it keeps others like myself from following or subscribing to a post.
Thanks for the feedback everyone! I’ll keep you updated.
It’s been nearly a month be. Not your fault Elizabeth , but geez , how much longer .
The email problem seems to affect all of the Kalmbach forums.I know that I am not receiving notifications from the Scale Auto and Model Railroad forums.