We’re sorry, but we’re having trouble reaching you via email. Our last few emails to you have all bounced back as undeliverable.
Can you make sure your email address is valid and working? You may also wish to add our email address to your address book / contact list to improve deliverability.
I did not click on the link, but I did go to my E-mail account that I use for this site. There’s no reason any E-mail should bounce as I have, I think, exactly one person blocked.
Bounced Email Defined. A bounced email is an email that is rejected by the server and is not delivered to its intended destination . There are many reasons why an email may “bounce.” For example, an email may bounce if the email address doesn’t exist, if a recipient’s inbox is full, or if a server outage occurs.
So hopefully this was temporary server issue and it won’t occur again. As I said, I manually reset the bounces for you.
For those of you using Yahoo as your email provider, we have a lot of issues with Yahoo filtering off our emails before you even get a chance to see them. Sometimes they end up in your spam filter. Sometimes Yahoo just wishes them into the cornfield and they are gone forever. Oddly, some emails go through just fine and others don’t. There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason behind it.
Since we don’t control Yahoo, there’s not much that we can do about it.
If your email here is a Yahoo account and you have another non-Yahoo option that you can use, you might want to consider changing it.
Is there a reason we need to have a valid email with SDMB? My old one was a Yahoo email, which I haven’t used in years. When I tried to change it to my current email, it said it is already being used - probably from when I had trouble switching over to these new boards.
I don’t want to be a problem, but I find this sort of thing terribly complicated and frustrating. Seeing as I’m not aware of any reason I’d need to communicate with the boards via email, I’m not eager to spend another second trying to figure out how to change this - unless it is terribly important to you.
Several reasons. You need a valid email for security reasons. It is used to verify your identity to reset your password, for example. If you have a problem with your account, we use it to confirm your identity. If you want to change your user name, we need it to remain in contact with you in case something goes wrong and you lose access to your account.
If you don’t keep a valid email, then if you have issues with your account, we have no way to verify who you are. For all we know, you could be some hacker from the dark swamps of Elbonia who is trying to hijack the account.
We kept telling everyone not to make a new account. Just contact us and we could sort it out for you. Had you actually done that, you would still be able to use your old account and would have retained your entire posting history.
We can still merge accounts if you are one of those who ignored our instructions, but it is a LOT more work now that you have a posting history with the new account. But if anyone created a new account in the move and wants it to be merged with their old account, send me a message. You will need to contact me via email, so make sure that you have a valid email on your current SDMB user name.
