Bug? Failed Sending Email?

Mix Ma$ta' · Trick Member Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Location: Baltimore

Everytime I've posted today, after I click submit, I get to a screen that says "Failed Sending e-mail"

After this occurs I never appear to have the last post from the forum index (even when I should) but once I click on the thread my post appears.

......?

Edit: Didn't happen this time.

VxJasonxV · Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:24 am Post subject:

That happens when you reply to a thread that someone has e-mail subscriptions on.

We fixed this issue a LONG time ago, now I just need to go figure out what was happening.
(I seem to remember this caused a 'number of replies' bug too.)
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videoCWK · Trick Member Joined: 04 Jun 2006 Location: woh

It happened to me in a PM
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VxJasonxV · Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 5:16 pm Post subject:

That user has e-mail notices of new PMs turned on...

It all revolves around e-mail.
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Xanthros · Trick Member Joined: 12 Aug 2006

It's happened to me on two different threads now, and one was a "accomplishments" thread that has been around for a long time. It just happened in DDR Chit-Chat, there is a thread that has "0 replies" and the OP is the last poster even though there were two replies by the time I read it and then I replied also.

It doesn't seem to actually stop the reply from going on the post, it just doesn't say that you replied or bump the thread.

If the name of the other thread would help you, its "The New England Jerk-Fest (Accomplishment Thread)" in the New England regional board. There has been another post after mine that this happened to also.

gasm · Trick Member Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Location: Montreal

Just a reminder for everyone in TWG, unsubscribe to the thread and we can all start posting in it again.

Zonic · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:40 pm Post subject:

Tried sending a reply PM, but got that "failed sending email" message, so I tried refreshing (which usually works when I post), but got that "can't make another post so soon" message, which also goes away if I refresh, but didn't work & got that failed message again.....

Now I'm getting the message after trying to post in the SN2/UNI2 Thread in DDR Console....

Checked back on the thread & I accidently double-posted....

mtwieg · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 2:38 pm Post subject:

I'm getting it every time I post. And when I make an edit it says "message entered successfully"

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HumanBeing · Trick Member Joined: 24 Mar 2007

Hmm. It appears I was wrong and that it wasn't just happening in one thread.

If this is being such a nuisance, why not remove that functionality (so that users cannot email-subscribe to threads) ?

Are there any posters who are in 100% of the threads this happens in? If so, there may be exactly one or two offending posters with something misconfigured. (It'd be an exploit of sorts)

I still say just remove that functionality and be done with it.
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Zonic · Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 3:54 am Post subject:

Yeah, it'll say it doesn't work, but when I checked my PMs this morning, it said that I send 3 copies of the same message (that, & I got a reply)...

DJTyrant · Maniac Member Joined: 25 Jan 2002 Location: Ventura, CA

I''m getting this problem too now ;(

Running FF 2.0.0.12 on Win XP Pro.
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GotACoolName · Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 10:22 pm Post subject:

I'm getting this problem now, too, in the Brawl FC thread in Non-Music Games & Consoles. Whoever subscribed to that thread, unsubscribe if you're reading this.
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mtwieg · Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 7:04 pm Post subject:

who the hell subscribes to threads anyways
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Flameboat · Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 7:09 pm Post subject:

I've been getting this in various threads.
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VxJasonxV · Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 8:56 pm Post subject:

Guys, seriously. It's a forum wide problem, one that requires root access to the server itself to fix.

The unfortunate thing is that the solution to the problem lies only in the minds of people who remember, because the purge we did back in ... 2004 (I think?) took out the thread with the resolution to this problem back when it first happened years ago.

We don't need reports of where this is happening, there is a high probability of happening on every single thread that has more than 5 replies.

We know exactly what the problem is, it is a server problem, not a client problem, there is nothing you can do to fix it (shy of shutting off all of your e-mail notifications, PMs included), but that's long and tedious to do.

If you wish to, you are welcome to, but I don't expect everyone to do that. I'd rather sooner have the problem fixed. And I'm attempting to get in touch with the people who could do so.
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GotACoolName · Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 1:31 pm Post subject:

hidden thread page get lol
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Discoman · Maniac Member Joined: 23 Nov 2002

I'm not even going to delete those posts just to demonstrate the suck of this bug.
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HumanBeing · Trick Member Joined: 24 Mar 2007

I think the more annoying aspect of this bug isn't so much the fact that any thread affected with it is impossible to bump except by one particular poster (whoever posted last in the thread before the bug bit), but that you cannot access any pages further in on such threads beyond the one where the bug bit without replying to the thread, and then reading extra replies below (that you didn't know were there before replying to the thread).

Seriously, is there any good reason to leave this email-subscribe feature enabled? If someone really wants to know about a thread they can always just go to the forums and find the thread and look to see if there are further replies.
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