# Email notification is broken!

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/email-notification-is-broken/75108>\
**Category:** Ruby-Forum\
**Created:** [November 7, 2006, 4:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/email-notification-is-broken/75108 "2006-11-07T16:40:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![rhaus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@rhaus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rhaus)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 4:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/email-notification-is-broken/75108/1 "2006-11-07T16:40:52Z")

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I usually enable email notification for my posts, but the  
email I get is not very helpful.  
Here is the complete, unabridged source of the email (without  
the headers):

* * *

Since your last visit, a new message has been posted to topic “Error  
messages in other languages?” in forum “Ruby on Rails”.

Subject: Re: Error messages in other languages?  
Author: Xavier N.

Read the message at .

You will not receive further notifications about new messages in this  
topic until you visit it again.

## Switch off notification for this topic:

No link or URL is present in that email, so it is impossible to  
either read the message at … or switch off notification.

As there is also no way in the forum to find one’s own posts, this is  
doubly frustrating since it would help to find at least those posts  
for which email notification is enabled.

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**Author:** ![rhaus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@rhaus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rhaus)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 4:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/email-notification-is-broken/75108/2 "2006-11-07T16:45:30Z")

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One more point: I tried to find this new message by searching for  
the subject line “Error messages in other languages” (with and  
without the quotes) and that search returned zero matches.

Is search broken too?

Roman H. wrote:

> I usually enable email notification for my posts, but the  
> email I get is not very helpful.  
> Here is the complete, unabridged source of the email (without  
> the headers):
> 
> * * *
> 
> Since your last visit, a new message has been posted to topic “Error  
> messages in other languages?” in forum “Ruby on Rails”.
> 
> Subject: Re: Error messages in other languages?  
> Author: Xavier N.
> 
> Read the message at .
> 
> You will not receive further notifications about new messages in this  
> topic until you visit it again.
> 
> ## Switch off notification for this topic:
> 
> No link or URL is present in that email, so it is impossible to  
> either read the message at … or switch off notification.
> 
> As there is also no way in the forum to find one’s own posts, this is  
> doubly frustrating since it would help to find at least those posts  
> for which email notification is enabled.

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**Author:** ![rhaus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@rhaus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rhaus)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 10:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/email-notification-is-broken/75108/3 "2006-12-14T22:10:40Z")

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Roman H. wrote:

> One more point: I tried to find this new message by searching for  
> the subject line “Error messages in other languages” (with and  
> without the quotes) and that search returned zero matches.
> 
> Is search broken too?
> 
> Roman H. wrote:
> 
> > I usually enable email notification for my posts, but the  
> > email I get is not very helpful.  
> > Here is the complete, unabridged source of the email (without  
> > the headers):
> > 
> > * * *
> > 
> > Since your last visit, a new message has been posted to topic “Error  
> > messages in other languages?” in forum “Ruby on Rails”.
> > 
> > Subject: Re: Error messages in other languages?  
> > Author: Xavier N.
> > 
> > Read the message at .
> > 
> > You will not receive further notifications about new messages in this  
> > topic until you visit it again.
> > 
> > ## Switch off notification for this topic:
> > 
> > No link or URL is present in that email, so it is impossible to  
> > either read the message at … or switch off notification.
> > 
> > As there is also no way in the forum to find one’s own posts, this is  
> > doubly frustrating since it would help to find at least those posts  
> > for which email notification is enabled.

I can confirm extactly the same has occured with me but on the Ruby  
forum. the email is below:

* * *

Since your last visit, a new message has been posted to topic “newbie:  
unpacking binary data” in forum “Ruby”.

Subject: Re: newbie: unpacking binary data  
Author: Robert K.

Read the message at .

You will not receive further notifications about new messages in this  
topic until you visit it again.

## Switch off notification for this topic:

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**Author:** ![rhaus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@rhaus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rhaus)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 10:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/email-notification-is-broken/75108/4 "2006-12-14T22:38:10Z")

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Ironically, at least the topic notification for this topic did not show  
this problem, so maybe it has been solved in the meantime 🙂