I love comments on my blog and I rely on notifications of those comments arriving in my
email box so I can reply to them. Hmmm...where did some of those blog comments go?
Last year I noticed some comments never made their way to my inbox, so I checked out why it was
happening. A thing called DMARC is what happened. Apparently, in an effort to get rid of SPAM,
some upgrades were made to fix the problem. It did sort of fix it, but it also started recognizing
comments by users of AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail (maybe some others) as SPAM and just chucked those
email notifications into the black hole of the Internet...never to be found again!
Not in the SPAM box, either!
Thinking I was so clever, I changed my AOL email to a Gmail address and it appeared to fix it.
Wait...it didn't?
What the heck!
I can't believe it's happening again (or was it never really fixed?)
The comments from others still show up on my posts, but I don't get the notifications in my email.
Seriously, I'm not ignoring you!
I searched the web for a solution. There is none that I could find, but there were a few places
with some decent explanations. Just so we all know that we are not alone...
Karen from Sew Many Ways posted about it
HERE.
Nancy at Wyoming Breezes posted about it
HERE
and
HERE with a solution that may work for you.
Jo at Riddle and Whimsy posted about it
HERE.
Diana at Red Delicious Life posted about it
HERE.
Note: On the upside, I found four new-to-me really fun blogs to visit!
So...
If you are a Yahoo, AOL, or other rejected email person, I'm sorry if I haven't responded to your
comment. I try really hard to respond to everyone and have even done extensive sleuthing
to track down no reply bloggers, but you might have slipped through. Sorry!
Hopefully, there will be a fix to this (but don't hold your breathe or you'll turn blue and pass out.)
Count your comments and then count your emails...this might be happening to you, too!