The Last Homely House

General => The Golden Hall => Topic started by: Kralik on June 24, 2020, 09:39:21 PM

Title: Email
Post by: Kralik on June 24, 2020, 09:39:21 PM
So it turns out email from the TLHH server has been broken for a while. No PM notifications but the worst part is you can't reset your password. I dug around for an hour or two trying to fix it in the backend but the forum software is hopelessly outdated (2007, woohoo!) and not cooperating with me. So for now it's going to remain broken until I'm motivated to hack at it again. :suspect: Password reset requests will have to be handled manually.

If there's an urgent site issue, feel free to email me. I don't log in often to check PMs but I will be more responsive to emails now than I have been for the last... decade? #-o
Title: Re: Email
Post by: TelTura on June 24, 2020, 10:27:57 PM
Really I'm just impressed at the dedication to keep the forum software at the same version it was when the game itself was still alive.  Talk about historical accuracy.
Title: Re: Email
Post by: menace64 on June 25, 2020, 03:03:22 PM
Hello Kralik! We’ve missed you ;D How’s 2020 in your corner of the world?
Title: Re: Email
Post by: Kralik on July 13, 2020, 12:29:14 PM
Hello Kralik! We’ve missed you ;D How’s 2020 in your corner of the world?

Busy!

Aside from that... I think I got the notification emails working again. Quick everyone PM everyone else all at the same time!
Title: Re: Email
Post by: TelTura on July 13, 2020, 01:31:47 PM
I actually got an email notification entitled "Email" from this thread and thought you sent out a notification to everyone.

Perhaps a mass PM announcement is the way to go, particularly since that will now ping everyone's email inbox...
Title: Re: Email
Post by: Kralik on July 14, 2020, 12:42:19 PM
I actually got an email notification entitled "Email" from this thread and thought you sent out a notification to everyone.

Perhaps a mass PM announcement is the way to go, particularly since that will now ping everyone's email inbox...

I prefer not to spam, but my guess is that since you replied to this topic it automatically set you up as subscribed. That's a setting you can change in your profile, I believe.
Title: Re: Email
Post by: TelTura on July 14, 2020, 01:33:21 PM
Right, I'm not mad.  It was a good indicator...and considering how many people may be in a similar boat and not currently in the habit of checking back every day, a ping for everyone to know that it's working again isn't spam so much as a legit announcement.
Title: Re: Email
Post by: Kralik on July 14, 2020, 04:47:00 PM
Right, I'm not mad.  It was a good indicator...and considering how many people may be in a similar boat and not currently in the habit of checking back every day, a ping for everyone to know that it's working again isn't spam so much as a legit announcement.

Let me clarify: If I send an email that goes out to ~2600 "members" (mostly junk accounts that I need to prune), my email provider will consider it spam. Most providers have limits, e.g. Google's is 500 max recipients per message, 2000 max emails per day.
Title: Re: Email
Post by: TelTura on July 14, 2020, 07:45:30 PM
Ah.  How did you get away with it in the past, then?  You used to send out site-wide PMs.  Just more members than there used to be?
Title: Re: Email
Post by: Kralik on July 20, 2020, 09:48:34 AM
Ah.  How did you get away with it in the past, then?  You used to send out site-wide PMs.  Just more members than there used to be?

Right, that was back when we were much smaller.