I'm no longer receiving e-mail notifications from MSFN

[VistaLover]

Greetings to all MSFN staff ; as other members have commented elsewhere, the MSFN forum has been flaky/erratic , at least for the past two weeks or so; the issue is more pronounced during night time in my time zone (CEST+01:00); according to a recent post by @Dave-H , this is due to constant bot attacks to the forum server, and the only person with direct access to the server itself, @xper  , is on a (much deserved) summer vacation currently; I'm not 100% certain the issue I experience can also be attributed to the bot attacks, but here it goes:

Below is a screencap of my MSFN account's notification settings:

As I hope you can see for yourself (imgur has been reported to have some accessibility issues in some parts of the rest of Europe, but works fine here in Greece otherwise), the e-mail option has been enabled by me for all types of MSFN notifications; this accommodation has worked fine for me until (and including) July 28th 2026; the last e-mail notification I've received from MSFN was on 23:33 (UTC+03:00) :

Then... NOTHING!

When I log-in to my MSFN account in the browser (r3dfox-140/New Moon 28), the "Notifications List" appears to still work, with a visible alert of new notifications in the relevant button; below, a screencap taken yesterday (July 30th):

I received no e-mail about those 3 notifications ; and the same thing continues for a third day in a row; one more notification today, for which I received no e-mail:

So, this is something that, obviously, won't go away by simply waiting for it to rectify itself , hence this report ...

TTBOMK, nothing has changed with regards to my e-mail address since July 29th, it continues to function OK for every other task I use it for, including getting email notifications from other forums/services (e.g. GitHub) ...

FWIW, I've had the same issue occur to me once. maybe twice, in the past; I'd let one whole day go by without e-mail notifications from MSFN, then my course of action was to
a) sign-out of my MSFN account
b) clear all MSFN-related browser cookies
c) clear browser cache
d) restart browser
e) sign-in to MSFN account anew
f) navigate to

https://msfn.org/board/notifications/options

and re-affirm (un-tick/tick back) my e-mail related preferences; then, e-mail notifications would start arriving fine again, as before; I've tried that same procedure numerous times yesterday, but to no avail (as detailed, no e-mail even for today's 1 notification browser alert); any help would be much appreciated; MSFN e-mails for me constitute a form of MSFN archival (for when the forum goes off-line) and an easy way to search (within my e-mail client) for interesting members' posts inside threads I've subscribed to; so, I wouldn't want to miss this "precious" forum feature ...

Kindest regards.

[xper]

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