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#1 Post by LAT » Sat Nov 14, 2009 1:28 pm

I seem to have stopped getting e-mail notifications when I have a PM. Has anyone else noticed this? Or is it likely to be something to do with my e-mail server (yahoo)?

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Re: PM notifications

#2 Post by Laura » Sat Nov 14, 2009 1:55 pm

No, I noticed it too. It doesn't really bother me though. I'm on here checking the message boards at least as often as I check my emails.

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Re: PM notifications

#3 Post by Looby » Sat Nov 14, 2009 2:43 pm

I've just started getting them! - which is new for me :)
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#4 Post by Bunnylump » Sat Nov 14, 2009 2:43 pm

I had to switch that off. It was driving me to distraction. :lol:
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#5 Post by LAT » Sat Nov 14, 2009 2:46 pm

Yeah, well you're so popular you probably got hundreds. For me it is often the highlight of my day. ;)

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#6 Post by Bunnylump » Sat Nov 14, 2009 2:49 pm

Now that's not what I meant. And I'm sure you get lots of people pming you too. Well, for a start you have ME pestering you!! :lol: :lol:
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Re: PM notifications

#7 Post by fernando » Sat Nov 14, 2009 3:58 pm

I switched it off as well because I usually went on puzzlebrains a lot more regularly than I checked my email.

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Re: PM notifications

#8 Post by Laura » Sat Nov 14, 2009 6:14 pm

I obviously managed to switch it off somehow, but I don't know how!!!

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Re: PM notifications

#9 Post by kingsley » Sat Nov 14, 2009 6:19 pm

I turned mine off ages ago, not that I get any PM's anyway.

Laura: I think it's somewhere in the user control panel, to turn them on/off.

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#10 Post by LAT » Sat Nov 14, 2009 6:21 pm

But I haven't switched mine off as I do like to get the notifications. I admit I always delete them straight away but it is a quick and easy way for me to know I have received a message on here.

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Re: PM notifications

#11 Post by Laura » Sat Nov 14, 2009 7:06 pm

Yeah, I had a look earlier today when the thread first appeared, to see if I'd managed to change a setting by mistake, but I couldn't find where it would be. Never mind.

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Re: PM notifications

#12 Post by SparkOut » Sun Nov 15, 2009 12:38 am

I'm getting PM notification emails (they always seem to be despatched at intervals so I might have seen and read the PM 10 minutes before the email notification turns up).

But what I don't get is how I can have minus 1 unread message!
Unread messages at minus 1?
Unread messages at minus 1?
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Re: PM notifications

#13 Post by Scurra » Sun Nov 15, 2009 12:42 am

That's got something to do with deleting messages I think. On another board I have been on, it used to pretend there were 65,536 unread messages, which is somewhat more alarming!
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Re: PM notifications

#14 Post by Bunnylump » Sun Nov 15, 2009 1:01 am

I expect the system is automatically deleting messages I send you Sparkout. 'Cos I'm over my limit, and they're all drivel anyway. :lol:
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Re: PM notifications

#15 Post by SparkOut » Sun Nov 15, 2009 1:07 am

Well I've not received any PMs from you. (Well, not since Tuesday, anyway.)

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Re: PM notifications

#16 Post by Bunnylump » Sun Nov 15, 2009 1:09 am

You have now. :lol:
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Re: PM notifications

#17 Post by SparkOut » Sun Nov 15, 2009 1:10 am

Aye, and it's reset my count of unread messages to 1 (and then 0 when I read it).

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Re: PM notifications

#18 Post by tricia » Sun Nov 29, 2009 9:43 am

why is the forum clock 1 hour ahead of my computer?
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Re: PM notifications

#19 Post by SparkOut » Sun Nov 29, 2009 10:07 am

I should think because you need to turn off "Daylight Savings Time" settings by going to you "User Control Panel" (click the link near the top of the page) and use the "Board preferences" link in the Options list on the left. Then for the "Summer Time/DST is in effect" option choose the "no" button and click "Submit".

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Re: PM notifications

#20 Post by tricia » Mon Nov 30, 2009 7:30 pm

:D thanks sparkout
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