ALL emails have been disabled for now

[Sparky10]

"Etiquette friendly" ~ I like that! Thank you for everything you are doing!

[Earth Mother 2 Angels]

((((((Mike))))))

Thank you for explaining this to me. I understand the importance of this feature now.

Just concerned about you and don't want you to have a bunch of stress.

Take care of yourself and thanks again.

Love & Light,

Rose

[houghchrst]

Well thanks to some disgruntled member(s) our host has blocked us from sending out emails.

I don't understand how a member could do this. Especially without any kind of administrative rights. What kind of criteria would the complaint have to meet to have something like that done without anyone else in the chain being consulted on it?


Mike what a mess. No issue for me right now cause I don't hardly use it either. They're right, get some rest.

[Mike Weins]

I don't understand how a member could do this. Especially without any kind of administrative rights. What kind of criteria would the complaint have to meet to have something like that done without anyone else in the chain being consulted on it?


Mike what a mess. No issue for me right now cause I don't hardly use it either. They're right, get some rest.

Ok the forum sends you a happy birthday email on the date you enter as your birthday (unless you uncheck the "receive email from admins" under "general settings" in your profile). I don't know how many people did this, or who they are (yet) but a group of people submitted those emails as spam to some email spam watchdog groups on the internet. Those watchdog groups (which do a lot of good btw I'm not knocking them) in turn forwarded those reports to our host and threatened to blacklist our hosts mail providers (which is the right way to do this). Well the host doesn't want that to happen so they shut down our outgoing emails.

It does not matter that the emails are not spam in the hosts eyes. So until I'm done jumping through hoops (which again in the long run is a good thing and eventually I'll be happy I did all of this) we can't send out emails.

[houghchrst]

Were all of those emails turned in or just a few? You said a group of people so does that mean it is not the work of just one person? Is there a way to tell? I guess it doesn't matter at my end but I do hope you find out who it was.

[Sparky10]

Stuff like that happens with newsletters too. Members sign up to receive them (or don't realize there is a choice) then report the email. Maybe they read them and maybe not. (not a good idea to open mail in your spam folder)

Mike's situation sounds malicious, though. Somebody mad at you, Mike?!

[testuser1]

I sure hope it's fixed now by golly

[Mike Weins]

I guess we'll soon find out won't we?

[testuser1]

Hmmm I didn't get the unsubscribe link yet.

[Mike Weins]

Hmmm guess we'll try again.