Email notifications for Boots thread updates not received

Hi all, this has been an ongoing issue, where I have stopped receiving emails when the boots posts. I see a few haven't posted in the last year or so, but it was prior to that when I noticed. I've checked threads and I see the box is checked to notify on update, and I've confirmed that these emails aren't being caught in my spam folder. Previously I could uncheck the box to notify, save, then recheck it and save and would get notices for a few days but it would eventually stop. I saw the update about the BRK naming ideas which reminded me about this issue. I just checked the boxes for Dez's post deep roots thread and Trace's new thread, so I'll see if I get any updates and check back on that. If there are any other steps I can take to assist please let me know. I recall email provider/relay has been an issue in some cases, my email is going to @protonmail.com and I have no issues getting the daily/monthly emails. I also receive notifications for other thread updates, so it appears to be the boot threads.

Perhaps I mistakenly clicked the "don't notify any more" on a thread, combined with others not posting any more? I did try uncheck/save/check to notify/save before on threads, and would see a couple emails after that, but then they would stop even though the posts were happening.

I'll watch these 2 threads (Chase & Dez's deep roots) and see if the emails work or not and report back here. I didn't see any other active boots threads, but if I missed one please let me know.

Thanks!

I have that periodically happen on my yahoo email but I assumed it was because yahoo sucks.  Proton should be pretty good.  Did they land in your spam or junk folder instead?  

Mike Haasl wrote:Did they land in your spam or junk folder instead?  

Not that I've seen, it's pretty rare that I get any sort of spam, and I've never seen a thread notification in there.

Proton mail is one of the few email providers that doesn't pre-censor the emails.  It trusts that we are adults who won't give our life savings to some African Prince who has a pyramid scheme to enlarge the 'members' of the world.  

Most emails have pre-filters to protect us - yahoo and hotmail are the worst.  Now gmail says they will not deliver (not even to the spam folder) emails that don't meet their codes.

But proton... so it should be getting through.  Let me look up some stuff.

It could be an issue with a specific thread.  Can you share a link to one of the ones that is giving you trouble?  

r ranson wrote:Can you share a link to one of the ones that is giving you trouble?  

https://permies.com/t/174418/Caleb-Bootcamp-Experience-BRK should be one, I know Caleb hasn't posted recently but I talked to him about it when he hit a 100 post landmark and I had stopped receiving emails about replies. I unwatched the thread then rewatched it, and started emails for a few days, then it stopped again.

https://permies.com/t/795/181512/SEPP-Boot-Stephen-Experience-BRK is another, I'm currently watching that one but I don't get notifications.

and you are certain that you have a watch set up on the thread?

paul wheaton wrote:and you are certain that you have a watch set up on the thread?

Yup, I checked that each thread had a check mark on the watch settings. I did receive 2 notifications today for Chase and Stephen, Stephen's already was checked previously, but I wasn't getting notifications. I was wondering if anything had been done on the back end, that I now got a notification. I'll see if it continues to work on these two threads.

I've been receiving email notifications for Stephen and Trace, so now it's working properly as far as I can tell!

It will only notify you if someone posted and you have looked at the thread since the last time it notified you. So if it notifies you, but you don't check the thread, it won't notify you the next time someone posts.