Email system not working.
Email system not working.
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V8S

Original Poster:

8,582 posts

266 months

Monday 27th April 2009
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I have noticed the email service is showing an error message.

i.e. go to member, click Email Me and it comes up with Oops - service unavailable or something.

I have been emailing a number of people about the Dorset meeting that is being organised. I hope I didn't break it.

RacingPete

9,197 posts

233 months

Monday 27th April 2009
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Is this on all or a specific member as just ran a test and worked fine for me?

V8S

Original Poster:

8,582 posts

266 months

Monday 27th April 2009
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All members.

I was working through the local members map trying to contact those who seem not to visit the forums often and suddenly it stopped allowing me to email.

It is still doing it...

In red letters I get:

"Oops...

Service Unavailable [F]"

on this particular member (for e.g.)

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/profile.asp?mem...

Does each member get a certain number of emails they can send out, or an outbox or something?

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Oh and something that I've always wondered - how do you deal with the possibly hundreds of bounced emails that are sent back for whatever reason?

RacingPete

9,197 posts

233 months

Monday 27th April 2009
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With all the server problems tonight it could be linked. I am will look again tomorrow morning and see if it is still a problem.

V8S

Original Poster:

8,582 posts

266 months

Tuesday 28th April 2009
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It's buggered again.

RacingPete

9,197 posts

233 months

Tuesday 28th April 2009
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V8S said:
It's buggered again.
Which member this time?

V8S

Original Poster:

8,582 posts

266 months

Tuesday 28th April 2009
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Any... smile

I'm getting the feeling I'm breaking it somehow. I'm just emailing a couple of dozen people who have cool cars and might be interested in coming to Dorset for a meet.

RacingPete

9,197 posts

233 months

Wednesday 29th April 2009
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Not sure what is going on with this as every time I test it it works for me. Do you get the Something Is Wrong message?

V8S

Original Poster:

8,582 posts

266 months

Wednesday 29th April 2009
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I only get the something is wrong message when I'm looking through the members fleet and it doesn't like me selecting certain car models in the drop down list.

I reckon Ted wrote a limit for each accounts to a certain numbers of emails per day and then it throws the unavailable message. There must be a reason it says [F], perhaps meaning full.

I dunno - you probably know the code inside out, but I only get the service unavailable when I send out 20 or so emails then it doesn't work til the next day.

RacingPete

9,197 posts

233 months

Wednesday 29th April 2009
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I have just looked at the amount of emails you have sent and you are correct, you have reached the max amount you can send which is why you have an error.

Sorry for not thinking of this earlier as I thought you were having a technical error page.

For obvious reasons to stop people spamming all our contact list we put daily and weekly limits on the system so if you need to email more people you need to do it in small batches over several days/weeks.

V8S

Original Poster:

8,582 posts

266 months

Wednesday 29th April 2009
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Sure, no probs.

It is amazing the number of people who register but never look at the forums.

Ever thought of sending out an email to those who haven't logged on for 6 months reminding them about the site and giving a few pointers about how to join in?

Incidentally, I've found I have to send about 5 emails for every 1 that still has the car in their profile, hence the number of emails. I'm trying to attract a good variety of cars to this Dorset meet.