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Pillar of the Community
United States
3333 Posts |
No subscription E-mails received overnight.
Also posting to a thread takes longer, or is rejected.
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Moderator
 United States
14463 Posts |
It is a known problem, and it is being worked on. I am not involved with the repair, so I cannot give a time estimate. There will probably be a post in this thread when it is corrected. Everyone is thanked for their patience.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3333 Posts |
I just received my first CCF E-mail (only 1 though)! It was on a thread I initiated.
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Moderator
United States
14463 Posts |
I just tried three different scenarios and didn't get any emails  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3333 Posts |
Interesting - I have received a couple of E-mails from subscribed threads this morning, but they are not the most recent comment. They are from several comments previously made - up to 2 days ago!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3333 Posts |
I have received 2 E-mails (only) from CCF since Noon today. Both were from posts made 3 days ago.
Edited by Pete2226
01/15/2017 4:16 pm
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Forum Dad
United States
24192 Posts |
Yep, old ones are trickling in.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
2403 Posts |
I haven't received any emails in days.
Found out yesterday that I also can not send or receive any PM's from other CCF members.
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Moderator
United States
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Yep, old ones are trickling in. That is exactly what I am finding! "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2403 Posts |
My emails have started coming in again. Have started receiving PM's and subscription notifications.
Thanks again...Mont
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Moderator
United States
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I am getting emails for all of my tests. Thanks Bobby  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3333 Posts |
I had a bunch when I checked this morning, too! Thanks! I would be curious to know what the problem was - if that is knowable!
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Moderator
United States
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I believe it was mainly caused by an email server that we share getting hit with over a half million spam messages.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3333 Posts |
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caused by an email server that we share getting hit with over a half million spam messages. WOW! Thanks for the info!  |
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Forum Dad
United States
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Thanks! I would be curious to know what the problem was - if that is knowable! Fuzzy is right. The server that the Coin/Stamp sites are on is ours only, not shared with anyone. The mail server is shared. One of the people we share with had something compromised (likely a poorly coded contact form) on their site that allowed the spammers access and they went in and queued a half million emails to be sent. This does several bad things....  Obviously it jams up the resources on the mail server and slows everything down for quite sometime. Computers are fast but a half million is a BIG number. It slows down posting tremendously because the software interacts with the mail server upon posting to send subscriptions. It just about immediately puts our mail server on several spam blacklists. I got us off the last blacklist last night, but it can take up to 24 hours for the refreshed list to filter down to all the caches. We've hopefully adjusted things so that even if it happens again it will not slow down posting. IMPORTANT: None of your information was compromised. Nothing here on this site was compromised. The mail server was just compromised in a way that allowed them to send spam to their own email lists. |
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