It's been ages since I have received an email notification from Blogger telling me that there were comments awaiting moderation on my blog. Thus, I have to remember to log into Blogger every now and then, click on comments awaiting moderation and check to see if there are any comments. I would much rather receive mail notifications each time someone comments.
I have tried several times to fix all that but to no avail. Today, I once again went to my blocked senders list in Outlook (my email provider) and this time I looked through each and every one of the blocked senders (which are legion cause there are lots of arsehats out there who send unwanted emails). I did not see anything that even resembled an email address from blogger but did find one or three with Google in there and I eliminated them, along with some others, from the blocked sender list. I don't know which one I eliminated that did the trick but getting rid of at least one of them from the blocked senders list may have worked.
I just added three test comments to a couple of posts and got email alerts saying there were new comments. Now, mind you, it did not say there were comments requiring moderation, I guess because I had entered the comments and I guess Google/Blogger dos not require verification when it is the owner of the blog doing the commenting. The thing is though, I made a comment to one of my blog posts a day or three ago and did not receive such notification then. Since I got these now, I am hopeful it will work when anyone leaves comments and that I will be notified accordingly.
Someone leave a comment please, I need at least one, from someone other than me, to see if it works.
Thanks,
Glenn B
I have tried several times to fix all that but to no avail. Today, I once again went to my blocked senders list in Outlook (my email provider) and this time I looked through each and every one of the blocked senders (which are legion cause there are lots of arsehats out there who send unwanted emails). I did not see anything that even resembled an email address from blogger but did find one or three with Google in there and I eliminated them, along with some others, from the blocked sender list. I don't know which one I eliminated that did the trick but getting rid of at least one of them from the blocked senders list may have worked.
I just added three test comments to a couple of posts and got email alerts saying there were new comments. Now, mind you, it did not say there were comments requiring moderation, I guess because I had entered the comments and I guess Google/Blogger dos not require verification when it is the owner of the blog doing the commenting. The thing is though, I made a comment to one of my blog posts a day or three ago and did not receive such notification then. Since I got these now, I am hopeful it will work when anyone leaves comments and that I will be notified accordingly.
Someone leave a comment please, I need at least one, from someone other than me, to see if it works.
Thanks,
Glenn B
8 comments:
Never mind, I signed in with an old Google account I have and it worked. So, I am guessing I will be at least somewhat more prompt in approving your comments.
All the best,
GB
Testing.
Sometimes I forget to check my spam folder and find one or two stuck in there.
The joys of running a Blog, eh?
I was getting a little paranoid that I had been banned or something.......
This problem evidently was ongoing a long time but I only found out about it maybe a couple or few months ago. Tried everything to fix it on my Blogger site settings, searched t make sure none of their email addresses were on my blocked senders list, and all that stuff. Checked y junk/spam mail folder regularly and they were not going their. Just could not figure it out. Today I reset all of the Blogger email settings again and that did not work. Then went back to my blocked email folders and unblocked a couple or few addresses from Google and two or three others that looked like web addresses from websites but seemingly had nothing to do with Blogger and voila - all of a sudden it is working. So, my guess is one of those email addresses was how Google routed emails to me from me at Blogger. Just a royal pain in the arse.
Now I am hoping that those I unblocked, that were not the right one, will not start inundating me with spam.
Well here we go again, never got an email notification tat Bob T left a comment! I have no clue why this keeps happening.
I had one guy that I never got a notice about when he commented.
I have no idea what set up he is using but it was something on his end because it was only him but it was every time.
Could be on the other end, I don't know what it could be otherwise. Just checked blocked senders again, no Bobs there but I don't know the actual email address being used.
By the way, I was notified of the most recent comment by Phil.
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