# Anybody Else Not Getting Update E-mails?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-not-getting-update-e-mails/595314>\
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**Created:** [September 5, 2011, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-not-getting-update-e-mails/595314 "2011-09-05T22:24:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2011, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-not-getting-update-e-mails/595314/1 "2011-09-05T22:24:02Z")

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For the past two weeks or so, I haven’t been getting e-mails alerting me that a subscribed thread has been posted to. My e-mail address has not changed. I’m sure that I subscribed and sure that I clicked for instant e-mail notification. Is it just me?

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**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-not-getting-update-e-mails/595314/2 "2011-09-06T00:13:24Z")

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Just last week I got a notification of an issued warning from ages before. Have no idea what that’s about, but whatever.

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-else-not-getting-update-e-mails/595314/3 "2011-09-06T19:40:53Z")

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In the hierarchy of tasks, email takes a back seat to read and write access of postings.

If the system is stressed it will sometimes drop emails, though we hadn’t had this problem in a while.

elbows, did you get your notice after the server work from last week? That might have cleared out the mail queue and shook out some old email that didn’t get sent when it was more appropriate. Otherwise I dunno. Sorry it didn’t get to you in a more timely fashion.