Instant notification

[+mb33lucky]

I signed up as a premium member on geocaching.com and registered to have notifications sent to me for all new caches in my area(20 miles, I think) and I have yet to receive a notifications even though new ones have been placed. Any ideas what I may be doing wrong?

[+tozainamboku]

I signed up as a premium member on geocaching.com and registered to have notifications sent to me for all new caches in my area(20 miles, I think) and I have yet to receive a notifications even though new ones have been placed. Any ideas what I may be doing wrong?

You may have selected notification for Enabled logs instead of for Published logs. When a new cache is placed it is reviewed and published by a volunteer reviewer. You should be looking for notification of the Published log. New caches will rarely have an Enabled log. The Enabled log is used if the cache owner has disabled the cache for some reason and later wants to (re)enable it. You also need to set up notification for each cache type individually- Traditional, Multi, Unknown, Event, etc.

Edited October 20, 2008 by tozainamboku

[+mb33lucky]

I checked and I have it set up as Published listings within 25 miles of my zip code for Traditional, Puzzle and Multi caches. And I looked at my email address to make sure. Any other ideas???

[Motorcycle_Mama]

Maybe your ISP is throttling emails from Groundspeak. It happens a lot.

 

Can you try a different email address?

[+Huntcliff]

Try using the coordinates of your home or a nearby cache rather than a postal code

[+mb33lucky]

I will try both ideas, different email and different coordinates. Thanks for the ideas.

[+BrokenLug]

I know when I first set up my account it didn't work work with my Zip code but has always worked with coordinates. It also seems that pocket queries work better with cords. than zips.

[polygoon]

My dad has got many emails from his notifications and watchlist caches. But now he don't receive any emails anymore. He's using a hotmail.com email adress. Does someone know how we can fix it?

[+mb33lucky]

I tried a different email and a new notification was sent to that email, but still need to figure out why it won't go to my mail email which is a yahoo. Thanks so much for the idea!

[Motorcycle_Mama]

Yahoo has been known to block emails from Groundspeak a lot. Many people have switched to other providers.

[+trainlove]

Yahoo has been known to block emails from Groundspeak a lot. Many people have switched to other providers.

#4 in http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=205185 shows the most likely reason that many people in Yahoo, and other providers possibly, eventually stop getting certain emails. How something gets blocked, without the user actively doing it, is a real mystery, and is why most people NEVER notice it.

 

I contacted contact@geocaching.com a while ago to suggest that they mention something about that in the FAQ's and the pinned topics.

[polygoon]

wich adress are the notifications send from? noreply@geocaching.com ?

[Motorcycle_Mama]

This is the address on the ones I get (without the spaces, of course).

 

Geocaching [noreply @ geocaching. com]

 

This is a typical subject line.

[GEO] Notify: JoeCacher archived Joe's Cache (Archived) (Traditional Cache)

 

Yahoo needs to whitelist the address and apparently they haven't.

[+nelson crew]

I tried a different email and a new notification was sent to that email, but still need to figure out why it won't go to my mail email which is a yahoo. Thanks so much for the idea!

 

Yahoo = evil when it comes to messages actually getting through. Evil!!!

[+Okiebryan]

Absolute best solution is to go get a gmail account and have all caching related stuff sent there. You will not have any more problems. I promise. Gmail rules. Yahoo drools.

[+FireRef]

I haven't had any problems with Yahoo and email - I get them sent to my Yahoo email account, and then also to my cell phone MMS address, so I get the entire published email, rather than just the first 160 characters - that also gives me the link so I can just click on it and go to the webpage if it looks like it's close enough to try for an FTF.