email notification

[bad_religion_au]

just got pmed about email notification, moving it to here cause i don't know squat about it... woody or someone in the know, think you can help out?

message i got=

Hey man,

Despite going into my settings and selecting for email notification (as far as I know), I'm not getting anything sent to my MSN hotmail account. I've double checked the junk mail folder to make sure its not getting stuffed in there, so unless there is some other MS security thing that is preventing it from even showing up in the junk folder, I'm not sure whats going on. Could you check my account info and see if anything is set improperly? Could you send me the email address that would be sending me the notifications? Maybe if I put it on my "safe" list they'll start showing up.

Thanks,

anhy suggestions for the man?

 

[woody]

according to the FAQ on registrations:

"This applies to hotmail users, and possibly to other web-based email users as well.

Hotmail automatically assume that emails sent "automatically" from a server are to be discarded or tagged for the spambox. If you've done the reminder feature and received nothing, there are two options:

1> (this one works for sure)...add ih8mud.com to your list of trusted websites within the Hotmail system. This will allow emails from ih8mud to flow thru correctly to your inbox.

2> (untested, but outta work)...simply go thru your spam/delete box immediately after performing the password reminder...the emails come thru almost immediately, and it should be easy to catch.

I suspect this same process will work for users having problems with Yahoo or other online accounts.

I know many forums don't allow web-based emails to register at all...I'd prefer to avoid taking that action, so hopefully this procedure will solve direct requests regarding "why can't I get my password""


...same reasoning applies to notifications and everything else....