# What's up with the e-mail notifications?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-the-e-mail-notifications/681832>\
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**Created:** [February 21, 2014, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-the-e-mail-notifications/681832 "2014-02-21T00:38:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-the-e-mail-notifications/681832/1 "2014-02-21T00:38:46Z")

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A month or so ago, I realized that I wasn’t getting the usual notifications about threads I was subscribed to. I went to my CP and checked: they were all set for instant notification. A few days ago, I tried unchecking a bunch of threads, then rechecking them. Nothing happened.

I thought about starting a thread here asking what was going on, but didn’t get around to it.

Then a few minutes ago, I started getting them again. I hadn’t done anything.

Was it a system-wide problem? I didn’t see any other posts here about it. Just my account? If so, why, and why did it “fix itself”?

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**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-the-e-mail-notifications/681832/2 "2014-02-21T01:04:40Z")

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I don’t know who your email provider is, but there was a SDMB issue with my provider that started about a month ago and just now has been resolved. I had over 100 emails all of a sudden.

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**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-the-e-mail-notifications/681832/3 "2014-02-21T01:27:16Z")

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Yeah, me too.

Well, I guess all’s well that ends well.

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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:** [February 21, 2014, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-the-e-mail-notifications/681832/4 "2014-02-21T01:51:07Z")

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That’s usually how it happens; there’s not email for a while and all of a sudden there’s stacks of it.

As someone who also got a ton of notifications in a pile, I feel your pain. 🙂

Not sure why it’s fixed now when it wasn’t working before – sometimes it takes some sort of action from way over on the server side. Maybe that’s what happened here.

I’m just glad it’s fixed.