Forum email notifications down

[gbarry 2,659]

We are working through a few issues with our email service, where links back to forum-generated emails are pointing to a dead page and notification-generated emails are down. Will update this thread once this is resolved. Thank you for your patience. 

[CalS 5,327]

Hey @gbarry

Still down I'm assuming since I haven't had any notifications in a while.  Just checking.

[JMichaelTX 4,120]

I'm getting notifications, but for some reason they all went to my junk mail folder.

[CalS 5,327]

Not even getting them in my junk folder....  

[gbarry 2,659]

We're still working on this! I'll update here and the announcement when it is resolved. We're super close. 

[printman2000 6]

On 5/5/2016 at 2:17 PM, gbarry said:

We're still working on this! I'll update here and the announcement when it is resolved. We're super close. 

Super close was 13 days ago. Any update?

[gbarry 2,659]

Still ongoing. What I get for jumping the gun on a fix. We have our operations team working to resolve. 

[WeCanLearnAnything 100]

Any update?

[JMichaelTX 4,120]

I was getting email notifications but they stopped about 5 days ago.

[WeCanLearnAnything 100]

14 hours ago, JMichaelTX said:

I was getting email notifications but they stopped about 5 days ago.

That kind of sounds like progress...

[JMichaelTX 4,120]

On 4/28/2016 at 3:34 PM, gbarry said:

We are working through a few issues with our email service,

@gbarry:  This is most unusual.  It has now been over a month, and I'm not receiving any email notifications to subscribed forums and topics.

This is a very standard feature in almost all forum software.  I've never seen an outage in other forum sites that lasted more than a day or so.  Is anyone actually working on resolving this issue, or have you turned your attention elsewhere?

[WeCanLearnAnything 100]

 

On 6/6/2016 at 8:13 PM, JMichaelTX said:

@gbarry:  This is most unusual.  It has now been over a month, and I'm not receiving any email notifications to subscribed forums and topics.

This is a very standard feature in almost all forum software.  I've never seen an outage in other forum sites that lasted more than a day or so.  Is anyone actually working on resolving this issue, or have you turned your attention elsewhere?

Given that there has been no update since May 18th, I guess they've turned their attention elsewhere.

If they're busy fixing Evernote bugs instead of forum bugs, I'm all for it!

[gazumped 12,641]

From a couple of things I heard recently,  I think everyone's been very busy fixing things in general.  The forum issue isn't an easy one,  so it's been hovering midway down the the 'to do' pile for a while.  Evernote is still looking at it. 

I went through my 'follow' settings a couple of times trying to jump start something with no success - I guess we'll just have to wait for a magic wand fix.  Meantime there's Activity Streams,  and Unread Topics...

But I still miss my emails... 

[DTLow 5,750]

On April 28, 2016 at 1:34 PM, gbarry said:

We are working through a few issues with our email service, where links back to forum-generated emails are pointing to a dead page and notification-generated emails are down. Will update this thread once this is resolved. Thank you for your patience. 

I don't think I ever stopped receiving notifications
I seem to have notification of every post in the Pricing discussion

[gazumped 12,641]

Suddenly I'm glad my notification emails have stopped....

[gbarry 2,659]

Notifications are back on! Let me know if you run into issues. 

[gbarry 2,659]

To Gaz's point, I will likely bulk unsubscribe the mega thread. 

[Dave-in-Decatur 4,258]

1 hour ago, gbarry said:

Notifications are back on! Let me know if you run into issues. 

Just confirming that I got an e-mail notification of a reply to a post of mine. So, yay, it's working!

[gazumped 12,641]

Yup.  And...we're back.

[WeCanLearnAnything 100]

On 7/1/2016 at 2:54 PM, gbarry said:

Notifications are back on! Let me know if you run into issues. 

Still not receiving any forum email notifications. Nothing in any of my inboxes, spam, trash, etc. 

Here are my forum settings.

 

[gazumped 12,641]

Well,  most of us that had the service drop have seen it come back (at exactly the wrong time if you ask me...) but if you're still having issues,  try mentioning @gbarry in a post (like I just did) to grab his attention.  Also see whether you get an alert in the next 12 hours or so because I posted in this thread!

[DTLow 5,750]

On July 1, 2016 at 2:54 PM, gbarry said:

Notifications are back on! Let me know if you run into issues. 

 

1 hour ago, WeCanLearnAnything said:

Still not receiving any forum email notifications. Nothing in any of my inboxes, spam, trash, etc. 

 

Likewise
Seems to have stopped just when @gbarry said the service was restored

[gbarry 2,659]

Hmmmm. Obligatory request, but I'd check your spam and/or email accounts tied to forum login. The new email service is showing 68K generated over the weekend. It's possible we're hitting some daily overages that are impacting notifications, which I'll be reviewing today. The price change thread alone generates several hundred with each reply, so that's...significant. I may close that at some point and directly link to a new thread just to tamp down on needless notification emails.

[CalS 5,327]

30 minutes ago, gbarry said:

I may close that at some point and directly link to a new thread just to tamp down on needless notification emails.

Oh yeah.

[WeCanLearnAnything 100]

I just got the notification emails.

[gazumped 12,641]

3 hours ago, WeCanLearnAnything said:

I just got the notification emails.

You may soon learn to regret this.... 

[DTLow 5,750]

7 hours ago, gbarry said:

Hmmmm. Obligatory request, but I'd check your spam and/or email accounts tied to forum login. The new email service is showing 68K generated over the weekend. It's possible we're hitting some daily overages that are impacting notifications, which I'll be reviewing today. The price change thread alone generates several hundred with each reply, so that's...significant. I may close that at some point and directly link to a new thread just to tamp down on needless notification emails.

Thanks - I found the notes in my spam folder

[gazumped 12,641]

Hmmn.  @gbarry - Is something going on?  My emails stopped again... (Or at least I've had none for 36 hours which is 'unusual' for the forum...)

[DTLow 5,750]

On July 8, 2016 at 5:32 AM, gazumped said:

Hmmn.  @gbarry - Is something going on?  My emails stopped again... (Or at least I've had none for 36 hours which is 'unusual' for the forum...)

Same Here - Last email was 2016/07/07 at 9:41am

[CalS 5,327]

Ditto.

[JMichaelTX 4,120]

Same here -- not receiving email notifications as of 2016-07-07

[JMichaelTX 4,120]

@gbarry:  I'm curious to know what the underlying issue is with email notifications that is taking Evernote months to resolve, so if I ever have the misfortune of encountering it elsewhere I'll know where to look for the problem.

It is really mysterious, since email notifications have been a basic part of forum for decades now.

[WeCanLearnAnything 100]

I think my notification emails have stopped, too.

[Stephanie C. 120]

My notifications are woking again. But I'm getting stuff that was posted yesterday and last night. I had already visited the forum and saw those posts.

[DTLow 5,750]

1 minute ago, Stephanie C. said:

My notifications are woking again.

Notifications are back for me too.  I'll have to work at getting them out of my junk mail folder

[gazumped 12,641]

Yep - I'm back too. I guess the emails and my browsing the forum will sync together at some point.  I'm also getting emails about things I just saw,  like @Stephanie C.

[gbarry 2,659]

@JMichaelTX switch in vendors after our previous email vendor closed up shop, and I've been running through the appropriate channels to get payments going correctly, operations ownership of the account, etc. We should be good to go now and I'm monitoring volume from our shiny new service. 

I'm also noticing the disjointed nature of notifications at the moment, which I'm attributing to backlog. Or the price change thread has gotten so long the forum doesnt know what to do with them anymore. Let's let it ride for a day or two and if it's still a problem I'll open a ticket with our hosts. 

[Dave-in-Decatur 4,258]

I'm getting notifications, more than I want in fact. I went to my settings (https://discussion.evernote.com/notifications/options/), and they are as shown. I'd think this would keep me from getting e-mails for every post in a thread I'm following, but they keep coming. Maybe I'll give it another day or two for the settings to settle in.

[JordanK 0]

Is anyone else having issues with notifications still? Unfortunately I'm still not receiving them at all...

[gazumped 12,641]

5 hours ago, jordyk said:

Is anyone else having issues with notifications still? Unfortunately I'm still not receiving them at all...

Notifications are working,  but not as advertised - like I suspect @Dave-in-Decatur I seem to be getting a big chunk of notifications for a lot of posts that get added,  though I'm not sure that includes all of them...

[CalS 5,327]

6 hours ago, jordyk said:

Is anyone else having issues with notifications still? Unfortunately I'm still not receiving them at all...

 I am getting notifications but they seem to be delayed.  Also, there seem to be batches of yesterday's posts that show up in my unread in the forum after I have read everything.

[Dave-in-Decatur 4,258]

With some threads (e.g., this one) it seems necessary to explicitly unfollow it in the thread itself to stop the notifications.