SMF For Free Support Forum

MSN doesnt work well with notifications and email on SMF For Free, cant really give a good reason why either, it just doesnt.

Im afraid Andrew is correct ercnan..   MSN/Hotmail accounts seem to rarely receive notifications.    This is an issue with MSN, not the forum software.   Afraid it would be best to suggest they use another email address - possibly gmail - it recieves them just fine.

Well it seems I pooched myself on this. I use Thunderbird as a local client to retrieve all my web mail. I created an auto forward filter to auto forward all replies to me from my board to the member in question as well. Now, even though I've deleted that filter, the member is still getting the forwards. I know, it's a Thunderbird issue. I'm just posting here in hopes that something can be looked into on the msn/hotmail/smf for free incompatibility issue. I'm trying to accommodate a member who has no issues on other sites (phpbb, ipb, vbulletin, etc.) getting notifications through msn, so I'm not really clear as to why a simple "msn does not play well with smf for free for some reason" seems to be the end of the issue.

Sorry if I sound a little peeved, but I am at the moment. Spending my time trying to work around the problem to keep a member is not good for me. Telling the member his mail "does not work with software for some reason" is lame, and will, in all likelihood, cost his membership, no matter what I've tried.

My apologies sibyl, that was a bit out of line (my last) for here. I was a bit steamed, but that's no excuse.

I've told the member to check his settings and he says everything is correct, maybe they are, maybe not, dunno.
He also said he contacted msn and they don't know what he's talking about.

At any rate, I've told him my only other suggestion is to open a gmail account. We'll see.