getting bombarded with too many emails from POTN (FIXED in v. 2.1)

All of a sudden I am getting emails from POTN very frequently. . I wonder if something is wrong with the automated email notification system, because this just started happening today.

Prior to today, I would get, like, just one email a day about new posts. . But now? . Well, look for yourself:

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There are useful threshold settings in the notifications FYEO thing

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Thanks, Jeff - I'll have to check that out.

However, it doesn't explain why I have gotten so many emails all of a sudden when I never used to. I never changed the default settings, and yet something definitely changed.

I want to understand what exactly happened at around 11:30 this morning, and why it happened.

Just fixing the problem isn't enough for me - I want to know all of the whys and wherefores about why this happened.

By the way, since I started this post about an hour ago, I've received 3 EDIT - now 4 - more emails from POTN.


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Are there too many items on this FYEO page? Also check the settings after the list there.

Pekka said that their would be no email for a while due to server changes.

It might be that the issues that caused no emails later caused a "catch up" on emails that would have been sent the last 4-5 days since the change.

Is there content in the email that might give a clue when they might have originated? Maybe if you compare the email to the referenced POTN activity?

Followed thread emails is a feature that many requested.

The previous versions of AMASS may not have sent notification emails for followed threads in the way that the latest version does. So no, you may not have received as many emails with the prior version.

The reason it did not start happening immediately after the latest update, is as Brisket pointed out, the email server was not up and running immediately after the upgrade.

Many of the tools you now have to adjust what emails you receive and how often are also new with the upgrade. One of the simpler settings that was carried over from the old version is likely why you are now receiving so many, now that the thread followed emails are being sent.

In my case, for example, I had pretty much no emails requested, so the change did not effect me the way it did you.

OhLook wrote in post #18585642
Are there too many items on this FYEO page? Also check the settings after the list there.

F.Y.I. one can follow threads without getting any emails. I have literally hundreds followed.

It is this page that controls email notifications;
https://photography-on-the.net …?show=notificat​ion_emails

.. and it is full of flexible options.

CyberDyneSystems wrote in post #18585651
F.Y.I. one can follow threads without getting any emails. I have literally hundreds followed.

Sure, but how many notifications do you have?

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Tom Reichner wrote in post #18585634
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Thanks, Jeff - I'll have to check that out.

However, it doesn't explain why I have gotten so many emails all of a sudden when I never used to. I never changed the default settings, and yet something definitely changed.

I want to understand what exactly happened at around 11:30 this morning, and why it happened.

Just fixing the problem isn't enough for me - I want to know all of the whys and wherefores about why this happened.

By the way, since I started this post about an hour ago, I've received 3 EDIT - now 4 - more emails from POTN.


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I also received a bunch of emails which prompted my investigation of the settings. The defaults didn’t seem to match the email receipt count...so I disabled them. Perhaps it’s a conversion calculation on time or something like that.

Left Handed Brisket wrote in post #18585654
Sure, but how many notifications do you have?

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I was going to start a thread to see if others were like me, but then thought better of it.

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I have quite a few notifications myself ..... it's all I can do to try to keep up with all of the things on POTN that I am really interested in.

In fact, I can't keep up, no matter how many hours I spend each day trying to.

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CyberDyneSystems wrote in post #18585651
F.Y.I. one can follow threads without getting any emails. I have literally hundreds followed.

It is this page that controls email notifications;
https://photography-on-the.net …?show=notificat​ion_emails

.. and it is full of flexible options.

OK ... this looks to be helpful/hopeful.

I get far too much email already.

If I want to check out what is going on in POTN and catch up with my notifications, I will navigate to the site and find out very easily. Unless life (in general) or work (in particular) gets seriously in the way, I will usually check in quickly at least once a day and this suits me fine. I don't need or want any email reminders about my stacked-up notifications. Right now I have a hundred or so and rising by the hour. I'll follow up when I have the time ... maybe at the weekend. I don't need emails to remind me.

Left Handed Brisket wrote in post #18585654
Sure, but how many notifications do you have?

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I was going to start a thread to see if others were like me, but then thought better of it.

This is arguably hoarding behaviour. Do you have the strength of purpose to clear up by yourself or are you going to need outside help before things get totally out of hand?

Ok, so I went into the For Your Eyes Only settings and found the Notification Emails section.

When I opened that up, I found a lot of adjustable settings, as others said I would. . I saw that by default it was set to send me an email for every single notification, so I changed it.

But here is where it gets really interesting:

Lower down on that page, there is a setting for the maximum number of emails within a 24 hour period - and mine was set to two!
That's right - the default was set to only send me two emails within any 24 hour period. . So why then have I been receiving so many?

Is it possible that something in the system is "broken", and not doing everything exactly as it is supposed to?

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Tom Reichner wrote in post #18585671
Ok, so I went into the For Your Eyes Only settings and found the Notification Emails section.

When I opened that up, I found a lot of adjustable settings, as others said I would. . I saw that by default it was set to send me an email for every single notification, so I changed it.

But here is where it gets really interesting:

Lower down on that page, there is a setting for the maximum number of emails within a 24 hour period - and mine was set to two!
That's right - the default was set to only send me two emails within any 24 hour period. . So why then have I been receiving so many?

Is it possible that something in the system is "broken", and not doing everything exactly as it is supposed to?

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There doesn't seem to be a zero option here. That would be my preference.

DaviSto wrote in post #18585673
There doesn't seem to be a zero option here. That would be my preference.

There’s a setting for that (which is also my preference)

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