Suze
Member
Maybe others are having the same issue . . .
Today is the second day in a row that I have not received the daily email from GotD. I guess I should consider myself lucky since I had a several-year string of daily emails. I just signed-up again, and I hope this fixes whatever the issue was.
riverboatsam
Member
I also haven't received my usual e-mail for 2 days now.
lovegiveaways
Member
It's been 2 days for me too not getting my e-mail. Since I have it in my favorite, I
just go there and see what happening. I also get Game Giveaways on the weekends. I'll
have to wait for this weekend to see if that's been taken away from me.
lovs2build
Member
I am not receiving daily emails anyone as well. Like 4 days now.
jboy
Member
Having the same issue here.
The last GOTD email I received was on March 23rd.
To test if the issue was the fault of my e-mail provider, I subscribed yesterday using a secondary e-mail address of a different provider. I did receive the subscription authorization e-mail and verified as directed. Today, no GOTD email to either address. (and just FYI, they are not going to spam folder and I have been receiving them without issue for years)
I'm stumped!
Attempting my own fix, I just unsubscribed from the daily e-mail using the link in the March 23rd email. I will let your database refresh overnight (assuming that's when it occurs) and then resubscribe tomorrow with the hope that may alleviate the problem and delivery will resume.
Despite this issue, I want to say thanks to the team there at GOTD for all your hard work! I hope we can get this issue cleared up. If you need me to test/verify any fix of the delivery for you, feel free to contact me.
Suze
Member
Joe, thanks for your status. I just got on, and received two emails, one sent to my original sign-up address, and one sent to the second address I signed up with earlier this week. Same as you, the emails had the 3 previous days' giveaways, but not today's. I suppose that's a step in the right direction, as we at least got GotD notification emails. Maybe tomorrow we will get a GotD notification email for tomorrow's giveaway . . .
Charles
Member
I am really confused about this, I also have not received GOTD emails for the last several days, then today got 1 with 3, all of which are now expired. What is confusing is I am signed up and receive my GOTD emails thru Yahoo, yet Google is apparently the cause of this problem. When I first noticed the problem I tried to use the unsubscribe at the bottom of the last GOTD email I had so that I could change my email address but I was told something to the effect that I did not have something required by Google to do this(???)
I've had all kinds of problems like this from Google ever since my ISP outsourced their email management to them. Just how many pies does Google have their fingers in anyway?
Suze
Member
Interesting to know, Charles. I don't remember whom I signed up with for GotD back in 2007, but I had to confirm it through feedburner. After I re-signed up with a second email address (see above), I again had to confirm it through feedburner. At some point, GotD started using Google for email delivery [at the bottom of each GotD notification email is "Email delivery powered by Google."]
I just clicked on 'unsubscribe' to see what would happen: a new browser window popped up, and the text asked if I really wanted to unsubscribe from GotD.
I wonder what might happen if you sign-up directly through the GotD site . . .
Anonymous
Unregistered
@ Willem XX,
I signed up with a new email this morning, a gmail address, which I hope will alleviate the problem, since Google seems to only give a fart about their users. I didn't receive a notification for today's giveaway, but I didn't expect to, since they are sent out in the wee hours. Check tomorrow and see what happens. I'm particularly interested to see if the game giveaway will send out an email this weekend.
Suze
Member
Amy1, it sure is odd! I wonder how many others are having the same issue. Two other threads were started after I started this one, and I suggested that they post here instead in case GotD was reading this.
I've noticed that they do respond on occasion, so I hope they'll shed some light on what the problem is, and when it will be fixed.
Willem XX
Member
YES !
This morning I've received two daily GOTD-email-messages (on two email-addresses).
What went wrong for some days? Maybe I'll never know.
At any case I think I can unsubscribe for one email-account, and keep the Original subscription.
And despite of this (little) problem: thanks to the GOTD-team for their daily offers!
jboy
Member
Suze, yes, it worked!
Again, what I did was unsubscribed from the daily e-mail using the link in the last one I received, allowed a full day for their database to refresh (most commonly done overnight), then resubscribed on the website as new.
I must say I am disappointed that no one on the GOTD team has commented or even acknowledged this issue. :-(
___________
Suze Member
jboy, I did similar to what you did: different email address with a different provider, and then confirmed the email address.
I -- and others -- will be very interested in if your fix works. Please post back in a couple of days to let us know. I hope it works!
Suze
Member
@jboy -- thanks for reporting back!! I'm glad it worked! I agree -- GotD could have at least acknowledged this issue . . . hopefully it's fixed.
@Willem -- same here! Finally -- or at least today ;-) I'm going to keep both subscriptions for a while to make sure I'm getting them on a daily basis. Thanks to the GotD team for many years of daily "giftaways."
Charles
Member
This was obviously a gmail problem, I wound up doing nothing and I received this morning's GOTD email (first in 4 days) as if nothing had happened, everything back to normal. I hadn't realized that GOTD was using gmail as their sender. When I tried to unsubscribe and change my email address back when this all started, it asked me to log in to MY gmail account, which should have nothing to do with their email account, and the email I receive GOTD from is Yahoo. I have these same kinds of problems all the time with my ISP since they outsourced their email to Google. Their mail servers can't seem to distinguish one account from another. I can't believe that no one from GOTD has even picked up on this.
Suze
Member
Interesting comments, Charles. It may be a gmail problem for you, but neither of the emails I use are gmail. One is through my ISP (verizon.net) and the other is through my hosting system (HostGator). I wonder if we'll ever know what caused this problem, and I hope this is the end of it.
Charles
Member
No, I didn't mean it was a gmail problem for me, the problem was on their (GOTD) end because they are using gmail as their sender. 'Cause like you the email I use for GOTD is not gmail but Yahoo. But I do have gmail account for other things and I constantly have these kind of problems with it.
RosnSC
Member
Folks, I have the GOTD/GGOTD notifications sent to my Yahoo email account. I always get them, though once in a while they errantly get sent to my Spam folder. That's why I have that folder set to not automatically delete Spam, because good stuff frequently lands there.
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