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E-mail from QQ Not Received Bug

Same problem for me, my notifications seems to not arrive to my main mail provider (and the secondary one is on microsoft outlook, so it should even be worse if I understand it correctly).
 
I've got the same problem, I'm not getting any notifications, I use outlook if that helps in anyway
 
The mail associated with this account expired. I created a new one for the account, but I never received the verification mail (yes, I checked the spam folder). The current one is the third mail I tried before finally be able to verify this account.

Any idea why this happened (and how can I avoid it in future)?
 
MyddynEmrys said:
The mail associated with this account expired. I created a new one for the account, but I never received the verification mail (yes, I checked the spam folder). The current one is the third mail I tried before finally be able to verify this account.

Any idea why this happened (and how can I avoid it in future)?
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This is a known issue (the not receiving verification e-mail).
 
There's a couple of people posting in a thread over on reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/WormFanfic/comments/lr9gu9/questionable_questing_help/) saying they can't get in contact with anyone here while trying to setup their accounts and they apparently get insufficient privileges errors while trying to post in the Introductions Thread (or at least one does, and the other's agreeing with them), and no replies when they try that 'Contact Us' option at the bottom of the page. So if those 'contact us' link is sending you mods emails, it might be that the replies being sent to them might be disappearing as well if they're being sent from QQ.
 
akaB said:
There's a couple of people posting in a thread over on reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/WormFanfic/comments/lr9gu9/questionable_questing_help/) saying they can't get in contact with anyone here while trying to setup their accounts and they apparently get insufficient privileges errors while trying to post in the Introductions Thread (or at least one does, and the other's agreeing with them), and no replies when they try that 'Contact Us' option at the bottom of the page. So if those 'contact us' link is sending you mods emails, it might be that the replies being sent to them might be disappearing as well if they're being sent from QQ.
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alethiophile ultima333 tehelgee
 
I the only way to fix it that I know of is to switch your email(from whatever you have at the moment) to gmail.
 
I mean, based on what Alethiophile said earlier in the thread, I think the problem here is that Xenforo sends out too many e-mails. Might explain SB's similar problems too. It's a serial offender. You get an e-mail for every PM message that contains the full contents of the message, you get them for conversation updates and you get them for thread updates. Other things too.

I've had them basically all turned off for years because I'd check my e-mail and it would be a full page of QQ/SB giving me updates on stuff I'd see as soon as I logged on anyway. I'm not totally surprised that it's getting blocked by some providers. If enough people blocked it manually and reported it as spam, it would get put on blacklists.

Yes, you can turn it off, but if most people don't, that's probably many thousands of e-mails a day from a single source that isn't a known bulk e-mail provider or service with a high reputation like discord (which did something similar for a while).

At least, I assume that this is the problem. I'm not an expert.

Most Blacklist operators will take you off the list if you contact them, then reduce your e-mail output and follow some best practices. That said, I'm sure Alethiophile and the rest have tried to fix the problem as best they can already. They're pretty competent.
 
I had to switch from hotmail to Gmail to get email confirmation.
 
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They gave no reason, and that's what's annoying. They just have a FAQ with a laundry list of "potential issues" most of which we verifiably don't have, and refuse to provide any details about which of them is causing the problem for us, or what messages they object to. I've requested removal twice (it's an automated process), and each time they put the removal through and then we're back on the list within hours.

There is actually a reason for this -- they want to avoid giving actual spammers an easy way to avoid their heuristics and get through the filter. But that doesn't make it less annoying.
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SB/SV appear to not send full-post text to a number of email providers, changing QQ to not send full post text is probably a simple fix given most story content on QQ will trip spam filters which tend to be very prudish.

I'ld also suggest ensuring the default email configuration is to not send email notifications to reduce how many people get emails by default and then use mark-as-spam to get rid of them.
 
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FWIW I seem to be receiving emails now, but they're delayed by a couple days. I just got one that notified me of an update on the 15th.
Progress?
 
Biigoh said:
This sounds like a e-mail latency thing... but only alethiophile or ultima333 could say

What's your mail host provider?
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I run my own mailserver.
Mail from QQ is the only mail that exhibits the issue (at least as far as I can tell).
fwiw there is...kinda a lot wrong with QQ's mail setup that could (and probably does) lead to issues that would be 'fairly' simple to fix.
 
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Just ran into this problem with protonmail. Was trying to switch all my accounts off of gmail because google wants phone numbers to tie their data together. Remember that phone numbers require a real name to acquire. Google claims it's for 2 factor authentication. But there are other 2 factor authentication methods that are just as good that don't require giving your phone number up. (Example: Generating a list of one-time codes to save, and use when you need to authenticate.)

Speaking of authentication... What is the real the purpose of requiring an email address for verification? It's been a practice used by almost all websites since I first used the internet as a kid. And why do we trust emails? You can host your own, though I've heard it's annoying to get it right, such that it can handle the roving bands of frothing-at-the-mouth email bots. So it's not exactly like someone is governing emails to ensure they're legit. But apparently email is impossible to make secure, because encrypting it turns it into something that isn't an email. In the USA, you need to sign a privacy waiver if you want your medical records sent to your email, necessitated by the strict medical record privacy laws.

Do we have no better alternative? Maybe some kind of Email 2.0 thing built on blockchain and peer-to-peer communications? I'm kind of disappointed in humanity for not moving past email by now. I know we already have some working peer-to-peer networks that host websites, and the publisher can even make edits to them after they go onto the network.

An email version of federated Mastodon servers could even work. Just allow communications to be end-to-end encrypted, so people all along the network can't eavesdrop. Kinda the opposite idea of social media / microblogging.

Maybe I should stop here, before I get worked up.
 
Spartan3909 said:
I'm not sure if it's relevant, but I'm now having the same issue with fanfiction.net.
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Same here. Noticed it through the last week or two. Wasn't sure at first what with some of them made it to my mail. (Checking it now it was at 22nd) But there were some, where my phone app updated but no notification was sent to hotmail.
 
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