Email Notification Down?

[+jhuoni]

I have not received any email notifications on my submitted waymarks or waymarks to be reviewed for several hours.  

Anyone else having this issue?  

 

 

[+elyob]

I will submit one now to see.

...nothing yet

Fifteen minutes after submission, I have no confirmation email.

Edited April 6, 2018 by elyob

[+QuarrellaDeVil]

Same situation over here.  Nothing.

[+jhuoni]

Review que is filling up, waymarks I have submitted have been approved. 

 

No new messages from Waymarking in 14 hours.

 

 

[+Benchmark Blasterz]

No emails for me either. 

[+pmaupin]

Me too, nothing

[+elyob]

It is so good to see that waymarks continue to be reviewed even without the email system.

[+pmaupin]

2 hours ago, elyob said:

It is so good to see that waymarks continue to be reviewed even without the email system.

That's because there are leaders and active officers who monitor their categories [:)] [:)] [:)] [:)] [:)] [:)]

[+jhuoni]

DAY 2...

Anyone else sent a note to GS yet?

[+bluesnote]

Odd, since I have had no problems with emails with Waymarking. Seems to be working fine for me. Although, I have been out of it for a few days with a family emergency popping up earlier in the week so maybe I haven't noticed it.

[wayfrog]

1 hour ago, jhuoni said:

DAY 2...

Anyone else sent a note to GS yet?

For sure. 

[+jiggs11]

Did anyone get a response from Ground speak?

[+jhuoni]

2 hours ago, jiggs11 said:

Did anyone get a response from Ground speak?

Thank you for contacting us about Waymarking.

In order to support the rapid community growth of Geocaching.com, it was necessary to shift dedicated resources from Waymarking to Geocaching. Unfortunately, at this time we are only able to provide limited technical support. Please try posting your question on the Waymarking forums. These forums are monitored and can usually provide you with the best support.

Best,

 

Martin
Community Management Lead

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This is the "canned" message you get from Groundspeak anytime you include the word Waymarking in any message.  I'm so glad they care about "us".

[+Max and 99]

What a shame.

[wayfrog]

It's not that bad. The e-mail tells you that all questions/problems about Waymarking should be posted on the forum. I read the forum and I have the direct line to the Waymarking HQ. I pass it over and they will look into it. Often the HQ is already aware of the topics we post here. For us the forum is our helping center. 

[+pmaupin]

Still no waymark mail for 4 days, I must monitor the categories of which I am officers to see if there is waymark way to validate, ditto for my waymarks not back when they are published.

[+bluesnote]

Now I can't log into my geocaching account. Just get a service error link. However, I'm logged into my Waymarking account. Anyone else have this issue?

[+Max and 99]

1 hour ago, bluesnote said:

Now I can't log into my geocaching account. Just get a service error link. However, I'm logged into my Waymarking account. Anyone else have this issue?

Yes, but it seems fixed now.

[+pmaupin]

Still no email notifications, me too

[+elyob]

same

[Bon Echo]

Anyone else holding off on submissions until email notifications are restored?

In the meantime, if you are an office, you can still check for submissions to your categories. I published a few yesterday. rejecting becomes a bit harder since the poster will not get to see your comments unless they join the group. I wrote up the reasons for rejection as normal, and copied the note before hitting the "Decline" button. Then, after declining the waymark, I viewed the declined waymark, and edited it to add the note at the top of the Long Description (along with a statement of why I was doing this and a few lines of -------- to make it clear when my note ends. I suspect some may be offended if you do that to their waymark, but in my case the submission was quickly updated (which obviously included deleting the note I added to the description) and resubmitted with a note of thanks from the waymarker. the edits were good and I was able to accept the waymark. So maybe consider that as a workaround for the time being.

 

[vulture1957]

1 hour ago, Bon Echo said:

Anyone else holding off on submissions until email notifications are restored?

In the meantime, if you are an office, you can still check for submissions to your categories. I published a few yesterday. rejecting becomes a bit harder since the poster will not get to see your comments unless they join the group. I wrote up the reasons for rejection as normal, and copied the note before hitting the "Decline" button. Then, after declining the waymark, I viewed the declined waymark, and edited it to add the note at the top of the Long Description (along with a statement of why I was doing this and a few lines of -------- to make it clear when my note ends. I suspect some may be offended if you do that to their waymark, but in my case the submission was quickly updated (which obviously included deleting the note I added to the description) and resubmitted with a note of thanks from the waymarker. the edits were good and I was able to accept the waymark. So maybe consider that as a workaround for the time being.

 

sounds like a great way to do it. I wouldn't mind getting declinations like this all the time.

 

[+T0SHEA]

The officer queue is working and waymarks are being approved.

Keith 

[Bon Echo]

1 hour ago, BK-Hunters said:

The officer queue is working and waymarks are being approved.

Keith 

yes some are being approved, but you can bet there are any number of categories where the submissions will just pile up because those categories do not have officers who log onto the website and happen to notice there are waymarks awaiting review. Maybe it's only a couple categories where that happens, but I suspect it will be more than just a couple.

[+pmaupin]

Still no email notifications, it still does not work  

[+Max and 99]

I just got all the missing notifications at once! Wow! I didn't realize how many were missing.

Edited April 10, 2018 by Max and 99

[vulture1957]

I just got all of mine, too.

 

[+Alfouine]

Better than the last email broken issue, we have all emails lost

[+jhuoni]

It appears to be fixed now. 

I only had to go through 88 emails. 

I'm sure there are some who had a lot more. 

[+pmaupin]

this is the emails are back, it works again

[+bluesnote]

WOW, what a morning. Had about 300 emails just blast through around noon pacific time. Guess there was an email delay after all. 

[+elyob]

email is back...hurray...be careful what you ask for. 

[+Benchmark Blasterz]

I got 158 emails - all at once LOL

[+MountainWoods]

Well I only got 94, so there!

[+QuarrellaDeVil]

Uh oh...

[+T0SHEA]

Is anyone experiencing: Not receiving notifications.

There are at least two that I am aware for new pending review notifications that I did not receive. 

[razalas]

I received a notification about an hour ago.

[+MountainWoods]

Got several notifications of candidates to review, which was about the number of candidates in my Review Queue (minus one or two that had already been reviewed).

[+T0SHEA]

Okay, Thanks.

A few days ago I updated Thunderbird, now it crashes every time I receive a new email, though no notifications. 

Any suggestions how to fix Thunderbird, or is there an alternative mailer?

I have used Thunderbird for about 10 years and update when required and never had an issue. Until now...

[+Alfouine]

You have an item menu to rerun Thunderbid without any modules, or debug mode.

Have you tried ?

[+T0SHEA]

Yeah, we tried about a dozen things and finally got to the "sound played on receipt of an email". Turning that off seems to have fixed it - said he with fingers crossed...

Keith

PS - I think restarting TBird in safe mode with add ons disabled was the second thing we tried after first rolling back TBird.

[+MountainWoods]

Also, if you're running it on Windows 10 it's much more likely to die than on Windows XP or 7 (don't know 8).

 

Windows 10 stinks.  On ice!

 

In fact, it's probably because it was trying to play a sound that caused Windows 10 to close it.
Next time: Linux!!!!!

[+T0SHEA]

Thanks. I have used a custom wav file with Thunderbird for years now. Read a forum post about the crashes and it mentioned the wav file.

We disabled it and it is now working great, even receiving notifications. I realize this is off topic, but I appreciate your help. 

[+The Snowdog]

Notifications seem to be on the fritz again today. Submitted one at noonish EST today, no notification email. It got approved a few hours later; no notification email.

Edited January 17, 2019 by The Snowdog

[+Alfouine]

Yes, no email this morning and a lot of waymarks to validate, it's KO

[+T0SHEA]

Same here, we are not receiving any notifications.

[+Bernd das Brot Team]

Same here, no notification for approvals, no confirmation emails.

[+Alfouine]

It works 

[wayfrog]

Groundspeak fixed it.

[+The Snowdog]

Yeah, I got a veritable blizzard of Waymarking emails last night. And - what? What? Groundspeak fixed something on Waymarking.com? What's the world coming to?