I never check the private messages either, just did and there was one from August. On another forum I participate it, a highlighted number shows up after the private message link, indicating you have one.
Could be how the message is sent; at the bottom of messages there are buttons for “E-mail” and “PM”. I have gotten messages that were sent as e-mails, they come as being from the Forum.
I might be totally mistaken, but I seem to remember that when I accidentally enabled that option after the July 2006 forum “upgrade”, I started getting email messages every time somebody posted to a thread that I was participating in. My mailbox filled up really fast, and I had a devil of a time turning it off.
Guess you didn’t read the topic I posted about this last week either.[:-^]
Oh well…Your loss. I was trying to see if you wanted all those Akane steamers I was giving away…(gave em to Good Will already)
Jeff, and where exactly is that option? I don’t get e-mails notifying me to PMs even though I have e-mail turned on. The only other button I see is turn on e-mail notification for every single thread you have ever posted to everytime another person posts there resulting in a hundred or so e-mails a day… This is all I see concerning e-mail on the Profile Options page:
Receive Emails:
Yes
No
Receive rich (HTML) emails
Yes
No
Enable Email Notifications of replies to your posts.
That is exactly what I have, and I do not recieve e-mail notification of PMs. I do recieve e-mails from people through the site but not PMs. And yes, I have PM turned on.
Edit: It actually could be an ISP related issue if Jeffrey does get the notifications and others don’t. In the Forum accross the street I had to open a Yahoo account to be a member as My ISP seems to think they are sending Spam and theirfore blocks the site. (OTOH, I get daily ads for ED meds and Insider information on stock options from someplace in Liberia and they don’t bother to block that crap…)
When I had my account here logged under my old email address I didn’t get any PM notifications. After I changed it over to a Hotmail account I started getting the notifications.
OK, that may very likely explain what is going on then. Very probably RoadRunner is blocking the particular server that is used to send the e-mail notification of PMs. For some reason, though, I can get e-mails (I think) from this site…???