O.T. Help please. Thanks

[Parsi]

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[Parsi]

I recently changed my settings to get notifications. Since then I've been getting them.

Nobody has mentioned the little blue circle with the 2 downward arrows in front of the thread title (in the thread list). That circle indicates that there are new replies since you last checked the thread. Click on that and it takes (or should take) you to the first post after the last one you had read.

[Infrared Charlotte]

Or you can look for a small green circle with a white dash in it just to the left of each thread title as you look at the main screen for this MS board. That green circle shows that you've posted in that thread. It doesn't let you know if there have been any replies since you posted but you can look over on the right to see the user name of the most recent poster, and if it's someone else's name, you'll know that there's been at least one reply since you posted.

The little green circle can be found over the envelope symbol.

Thanks again Joan. I will try these.

Love & hugs
Sandra

[Infrared Charlotte]

I recently changed my settings to get notifications. Since then I've been getting them.

Nobody has mentioned the little blue circle with the 2 downward arrows in front of the thread title (in the thread list). That circle indicates that there are new replies since you last checked the thread. Click on that and it takes (or should take) you to the first post after the last one you had read.

Thanks Parsi. I will try it.

Huhs & love
Sandra

[agate]

I recently changed my settings to get notifications. Since then I've been getting them.

Nobody has mentioned the little blue circle with the 2 downward arrows in front of the thread title (in the thread list). That circle indicates that there are new replies since you last checked the thread. Click on that and it takes (or should take) you to the first post after the last one you had read.

Curious. You're seeing a little blue circle with downward arrows. I think it's what I'm calling a little green circle with a white dash. The white dash turns out to be a white arrow on closer inspection.

Strange too that you get e-mail notifications. You do mean you get notified every time there's a new post in a thread you've posted in? I get an e-mail notification but only once a day even though I have it set for "instant e-mail notification."

Sandra, if you're confused, you can always use my system of dealing with the Internet. I just keep clicking on things to see what happens, and sooner or later I might find something helpful!

[Parsi]

Curious. You're seeing a little blue circle with downward arrows. I think it's what I'm calling a little green circle with a white dash. The white dash turns out to be a white arrow on closer inspection.

Strange too that you get e-mail notifications. You do mean you get notified every time there's a new post in a thread you've posted in? I get an e-mail notification but only once a day even though I have it set for "instant e-mail notification."

Sandra, if you're confused, you can always use my system of dealing with the Internet. I just keep clicking on things to see what happens, and sooner or later I might find something helpful!

Agate, the green circle with white arrow/dash is on the "envelope" next to the thread title. Then there is a document icon. Then the thread title. If there are new replies in the thread, a blue circle and down arrows appear between the envelope and document icon. If there aren't any new replies, then it isn't there. Sometimes it only shows if you are signed in.

Yes, I sometimes get several notifications a day.

[agate]

Agate, the green circle with white arrow/dash is on the "envelope" next to the thread title. Then there is a document icon. Then the thread title. If there are new replies in the thread, a blue circle and down arrows appear between the envelope and document icon. If there aren't any new replies, then it isn't there. Sometimes it only shows if you are signed in.

Yes, I sometimes get several notifications a day.

Oh, THAT blue circle! Thanks for explaining. I'd completely forgotten about them even though I must see those circles all the time.

I get e-mails notifying me of PMs but not e-mails notifying me of posts except for the one a day. That one e-mail covers all of the posts in the last 24 hours, I think.

[Cherie]

Even though my notifications are checked off in my settings, I do not get them at all and haven't for at least three or four years. When you look at the forum menu, there will be a check mark in the threads to which you have responded. If emboldened, someone has added a comment since you were last posting.

[agate]

This will take some time but I'll look around in the Feedback forum and see if I can find something about why some of us don't get e-mail notifications. It may have been explained but it would have been some time ago. It might be a couple of days before I'll find it.

[Mike Weins]

With regards to not getting instant email notifications of new posts to a thread that you are subscribed to, yes that was disabled due to the mail server being bad. If I ever get enough time to do the forum upgrade and server software upgrade the email system should work as it did in the past.

[Gary]

Thanks Mike and for all you do for us!!

[Parsi]

I get e-mails notifying me of PMs but not e-mails notifying me of posts except for the one a day. That one e-mail covers all of the posts in the last 24 hours, I think.

I finally realized something about the notifications. I'm not getting notifications about posts as they are posted. And you're right, agate, it's once a day. All the new posts of a thread are bundled in one notification. Each notification was a different thread (not post). Because I was getting notifications on multiple threads I got multiple notifications in one day.

I'm in the process of unsubscribing to some of the threads now.

[Mike Weins]

I finally realized something about the notifications. I'm not getting notifications about posts as they are posted. And you're right, agate, it's once a day. All the new posts of a thread are bundled in one notification. Each notification was a different thread (not post). Because I was getting notifications on multiple threads I got multiple notifications in one day.

I'm in the process of unsubscribing to some of the threads now.

This is because I disabled the instant email notification as it was being used by spammers to send out thousands of emails from our mail server. Once I get around to doing the upgrades I can turn it back on :)

[Parsi]

This is because I disabled the instant email notification as it was being used by spammers to send out thousands of emails from our mail server. Once I get around to doing the upgrades I can turn it back on :)

I'm okay the way it is.