Notifications/emails subscription?

[JSR]

I use my own domain, which is why that thought occurred to me.

[Justin]

Sent you 3 test emails from outside the forum last night Adam, did you get them?

[AdamB]

WE HAVE A WINNER!

Justin - no, never got the emails

I have tried a couple of different email accounts - yahoo and aol, both with no joy. So I just registered with mail.com to see if this works (http://www.mail.com/mail/#.348236-header-nav1-2).

Within two minutes I was getting notifications .......................... not sure why yahoo or aol have suddenly stopped working though??

FAO JSR - Good call mate, I kept trying different yahoo email accounts

[JSR]

Within two minutes I was getting notifications .......................... not sure why yahoo or aol have suddenly stopped working though??

FAO JSR - Good call mate, I kept trying different yahoo email accounts

I always cringe when a customer signs up with a yahoo, hotmail, AOL, gmail, or similar email address - because I know there's a good chance that they won't receive any emails. Customers (businesses) with their own website, own domain, and personalised email address always do - but the big "generic" suppliers of free email addresses rarely ever do. They're just too over active on assuming everything's spam, and only those emails that they can be 100% certain of are the ones that get through.

[Justin]

But surely the suspected spam emails go into a spam folder?

[AdamB]

But surely the suspected spam emails go into a spam folder?

No Justin - that's the thing, I have spam everyday which goes into the spam folder but the DSF emails have just stopped!

[Justin]

Just trying to ascertain if the problem is your end or here

[AdamB]

Just trying to ascertain if the problem is your end or here

no probs - I'm getting notifications now with mail.com?

[JSR]

But surely the suspected spam emails go into a spam folder?

Not with generic free email accounts like the ones mentioned. The likes of Yahoo like to play god and if they've detected anything even remotely suspicious from your IP address, or a nearby IP address, then they "deprioritise" any email from that server - which means they often silently drop the emails.

Trouble is, it's a false practice because, in the real world, hundreds of domains can be hosted on the same IP address - and it only takes one abusive user to spam out for Yahoo and their ilk to tar everyone with the same brush. It's happened for years.

You could spend days bending over backwards trying to get your emails through, or you can just acknowledge that it's always going to be a problem with these free email services. After all, they don't really want to provide the free service - they just want you signed up so they can sell your email address off and make oodles of money from spam email themselves (and adverts, of course).

In short, they want to let spam emails through that they make money from - but they don't want to do any more work than they have to for legitimate emails.

[JSR]

no probs - I'm getting notifications now with mail.com?

I'm curious - don't you have your own domain name?