Not receiving your HealthUnlocked email notifications? Here's what to do!

[AussieNeil]

Over the last few weeks, we've had more than the usual number posts from members who are missing out on their notification emails. Unfortunately, this problem stems from the decision to not charge for sending emails back when the email protocol was implemented last century, with the understandable result that most internet emails are spam.* Hence the continuing war between spammers trying to sneak their unsolicited emails through email server filters and email filter improvements, whereby we can lose some valued correspondence through misidentification. Bulk emails understandably are considered particularly suspect and HU probably sends out around 20,000 identical emails daily to our community members.

This is why when you no longer receive regular notifications, the first step is to check your spam/junk mail folder and if you find your email notifications there, either inform your email app that they are not junk or move them into your inbox. Future deliveries should then return to your inbox. If you can't find your email notifications in your spam/junk mail folder, then check your notification settings are correct here: healthunlocked.com/email-no... (Menu .. Email preferences). In particular, check the setting in the section;

From my communities; Digest frequency: and make sure it is set appropriately. See the attached graphic for how to access your settings, including your Email preference settings via your Menu - the three horizontal bars. Your HU Menu can be found at the bottom right of your screen on a mobile phone or tablet and the top right on desktops/laptops. Selecting the Menu bars causes the shown options to pop up above or below your menu.

If everything looks correct, you'll need to email CLL Support at [e-mail] and ask for their help.

*The email spam situation has actually improved from the bad old days in the noughties, when 80 to 90% of email traffic was spam. In the last 10 years to Decembers 2023, statista.com/statistics/420... it's dropped from a peak of 70% to around 45%. We never see most of this unsolicited email, because it's automatically deleted. It's only the uncertain emails that make it to your spam/junk email folder, where you are given a few days to check and provide feedback. If someone doesn't find a notification email incorrectly assigned as junk/spam in the allocated time, then the email server considers the email is more likely to be spam, so other members using the same email service are likely to also lose their notification emails. No doubt spammers are now using AI in an effort to improve their chances of getting their spam through spam filters, as this never ending war continues. It causes a huge cost in processing and transporting rubbish emails around the world, but most of the wasted effort is from people trying to find legitimate emails and deleting spam from their inboxes.

Spam tramples environment with huge carbon footprint (2008)

newscientist.com/article/dn...

The 62 trillion spam emails sent in 2008 created carbon emissions equivalent to that of 2 billion gallons of petrol burnt in a car engine, according to a report (pdf) by computer security firm McAfee... Nearly 80 per cent of the energy used by spam comes from end-users deleting it from their inboxes and hunting for legitimate email.

Neil

[Westie11-]

Yes this happened to me and after checking the "spam" box I found they were there. So as you say, clicked on one and said not spam. Since then they are once again coming daily.