How Does the WPF Automated E-Mail Work?

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You may subscribe to receive automated e-mails from WPF. You may choose to receive these automated e-mails for posts made to entire forums, or for individual topics (threads). There is an option to subscribe for automated e-mails at the bottom of each individual forum or topic (thread).

You must make this selection for EACH individual forum or topic in which you are interested in receiving e-mail notification of activity. In other words, for each individual poem you post, you must select the option to receive e-mail notification concerning that poem. Your selection applies to that particular poem. In order to receive notification on any subsequent poem(s) you might post, you will need to make the selection for those. Each topic (thread) is handled individually. You can also have all reply notifications e-mailed to you by default, rather than thread by thread, by changing the settings in your member profile. Click on the 'User Control Panel' at the top left of the screen under Board Index to change your settings.

Futhermore, WPF’s system will only send you automated e-mail for the FIRST post made on the forum or topics (thread) to which you have subscribed, until you visit the forum or the topic (thread). Once you visit the forum or topic (thread), then a subsequent automated e-mail will be sent notifying you of any addition to that forum or topic. EACH individual e-mail sent to you must be acted upon (with a visit to the specific forum or topic), before further e-mail deliveries will be made. A visit by you to the forum or topic is what resets the counter for these automated e-mails. If you do not visit the forum or the topic, no subsequent e-mails will be sent, even if there has been activity in that topic. You do not have to visit from the link in the automated e-mail. Even if you visit outside the link in the e-mail, the counter will still be reset.

To reiterate, if you expect to get 10 e-mails for 10 posts on your 'watched' topics, that is NOT how this works. You will only get e-mail on the FIRST post of those 10. The automated e-mail generator will not send another e-mail until you visit that topic or forum. Then you will get another e-mail for the next post after you have visited.

The system works in this fashion to prevent your e-mail box from being flooded with automated e-mails. The system has been designed to notify you that activity has occurred, but it will do so only once until a visit is made. Therefore, your e-mails are not getting lost or not being delivered. An action by you, in the form of a visit to the forum or topic, is required to keep the automated mail coming to you.

WPF Administration