Are you not receiving e-mails from dotTech? If so, please read this!
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Hey Friends,
I have gotten numerous e-mails from lots of people telling me that they are no longer receiving e-mails from dotTech (e-mail notifications/registration confirmation e-mails). Believe me when I say I am not ignoring your e-mails of distress that you have sent me. I have replied to each and every request of assistance regarding these issues; the frustrating part is that people who are not receiving e-mail notifications or registration confirmation e-mails are also not getting any reply e-mails I send to them manually, so it seems like I am ignoring everyone whereas I am not. So, please bear with me for a few days – I am trying hard to fix the issue.
If you are one of the people not getting e-mails from dotTech, you can help solve this problem by posting a comment below telling me what e-mail service provider you use (i.e. @hotmail.com, @gmail.com, etc.). I believe it is Gmail users that are having problems but need to confirm this.
Thank you.
Take care,
Ashraf
Ashraf: It seems obvious, but if someone got your email saying please see this posting, they got they email. However, I have noticed that about two months ago I stopped receiving your emails altogether, for quite some time (weeks). I am one of those people who do not check your website daily, weekly or with any other regular frequency: only when an email alerts me of something I might be interested in do I visit, therefore an interruption of that service is bad for both. Hope it helps, best regards.
I understand your frustration. I will keep sending you links for your review, but I can’t see how you have time for everything you do. Keep up the good work!
Hi, I get most of the email alerts, although on occasion some I do not, but I tend to look in any way, most days. I use Gmail and still think it is the very best out there, kind regards Mike.
I gotta tell you, I thought it was very funny when I got this email;
The only problem I’ve had is quite the opposite. I un-subscribed from the Giveaway of the Day Reviews some time ago, but they keep coming. I’m sure the one has nothing to do with the other.
Hey A– why not start numbering your emails? Then we can tell if/when we miss any.
When I first signed up for your e-mail alerts, I didn’t see a response from you for a few days. I use Outlook for my mail so I finally went into my Gmail account directly and checked the spam filter and their was your e-mail. I have no idea why they flagged you as spam, but I marked your e-mails as safe and I have had no problems since.
if you sent everybody test email, I didn’t get it, not in the last month or two.
I was not getting your emails a few weeks ago. Went to the site to investigate and saw you were away but then once you were back I still got no emails. I subscribed again and since then presume I’m getting them all. I use a GMail address. I think also like Kevin at that time I found some in my GMail spam filter.
Hi Ashraf,
one month ago I stopped to receive DotTech e-mail, without any apparent reason. I checked in DotTech home page and I saw that the latest post was dated two or three weeks before. So, I guessed some problems on publishing temporarily, hopefully.
After few days I checked the GMail “spam box” founding there all DotTech e-mails … I checked all them and select “not spam”, solving the problem.
I’m quite sure that GMail modified their spam blocking criteria, or something else.
Thanks a lot for your job, very appreciated indeed.
Well with my tricky junkmail setup where I have legit sites strung through 3 emails on 2 servers, somehow I manage to not lose yours.
No problems with Windows Live Mail [ @live.com ].
Numbering the E-mails is an excellent idea!
(Of course,…. I am,… kind of wondering,… how the people whom aren’t getting these E-mails are going to get this E-mail,…… Hmmmm…….. )
;~)
A couple of providers NOT having problems receiving your emails are
username@alum.rpi.edu
username@mail2world.com
Maybe this helps narrow in on the problem providers. Of course, all I really know is that I get some of your emails; I have no way of knowing whether I get them all. I think numbering them would be a fine idea. Maybe also giving the title or subject of the preceding email. I think some people would remember text better than just a number.
Hi Ashraf,
FYI……I use gmail, and have not had any problems with e-mail notifications , announcements, freebies, reviews, et al.
Have been a member for about a year so registration confirmation e-mails are a moot point.
etims suggestion of numbering emails does sound like a good idea, but I do not know how you would do that.
I have Gmail, and I was receiving them fine, until randomly all messages went into the spam folder. Now I get them fine, once I set your newsletter as one of my contacts.
Have had no probs w/ yahoo address, but do know gmail has been getting ‘pickier’ in terms of what they consider spam; AND people who forward their gmail to an outlook client rarely think to go back to gmail directly to check their SPAM folder!
Hi Ashraf,
I am using GMail and initially the first email I received from you was classed as spam, once I clicked not spam in GMail itself, there has not been any problems, all your emails arrive as they should.
Tony
I use gmail and I get all your emails :)
gmail seems fine to me also.
In past, I used to send emails to customers using Groupmail from Infacta. During that time, I had done a research and also talked to internet providers and verified that this software is the most “compatible” with email servers. Afterwards I purchased this.
I have got a licence which is used rarely nowdays and I would be very glad to share it with you, if you think this may be useful.
I use gmail. Before this, I got dotTech email properly into my inbox. But last time, ur email was notified as spam. After some time, ur emails keep going into the spam. Finally, I flagged one of ur email as “Not Spam”. After that, ur email entered my inbox properly again~~~
I use gmail. I used to get email when I received a PM, but I don’t anymore. I’ve never signed up to receive any other dotTech emails though.
I’ve checked my spam folder and they’re not in there.
Greetings Ashraf,
I use GMail and believe that I have been receiving all your emails.
I would sorely miss them if they stopped.
Your efforts are greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
I get some of the article notification emails, but not all. The last one I got was for previx safeonline, I didn’t get one for this article or zonealarm. I also don’t get them for PMs in the forum anymore.
I use gmail and did find some of your emails in spam, but have marked them as “not spam” yet the problem seems to continue.
Good luck figuring this out. :-)
Just in case it’s somehow connected, I’ve noticed that lately it takes quite a bit longer to load pages on dotTech than other sites I go to.
I had the same problem – GMail suddenly started sending all dottech mails to the SPAM folder. Since I autoforward mail the account I used to subscribe to dottech, I didn’t initially even notice the problem. By chance I signed into the account directly and found 52 dottech mails there!
The solution, however, is simple, quick (and completely painless :-) :
Open a message from dottech (any will do);
Click on the little arrow next to “Reply” and select “Filter messages like this”. This will open the “Create filter” window;
Change the “From: ” line to read simply “dottech.org”;
Click “Next step”. This will automatically check the filter and return the list of matching messages;
Choose the LAST action option: Never send it to spam;
Click on “Create Filter” (and optionally on “Also apply filter to ### conversations below”, although in this case it shouldn’t be necessary, unless you also choose a new label or other action).
And that’s it! Now mails from dottech.org will never again end up in the bit-bucket!
Hope this helps…
John
Ashraf –
I use gmail. I am (or was?) selected to receive indications of new articles (except the GAOTD reviews) and received them for months. It looks like the last message I received was on 3/4 – “New article posted : Free WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe”. I am not certain, but I believe this coincides with the *long* break you took away from the site. It didn’t occur to me that the emails had stopped – because my daily dottech trips always showed no updates. When you did return, I noticed that new articles were posted, but I received no email updates. I believe the two events coincide in the timeline (the long break and the email “stoppage”), but I am not positive that is the case.
Regardless, I have received no emails since before the time away.
:)
edit : Upon further review, I see that I actually DID start receiving messages again on 3/18… although they are all located in my spam folder, where they had never gone before….
I got emails from dot.Tech right away when I first signed up, everything is working good for me!
~Joji~