Post ID: 97778, posted on December 4th, 2014
Alas things are always changing with these computery thingies.
A few years ago when I first signed up with gmail my spam folder received HUNDREDS of new entries PER DAY; these days it's down to a couple of dozen as day. Did the spammers all hang up their hats and find more useful ways to spend their time? No, they didn't, in fact it's gotten worse... however gmail started bouncing it rather than putting it in a spam folder.
The same has happened with other email service providers, and although it looks nice to have a relatively empty spam folder, the down side is that you can't now route out that missing email... because they bounced it back to the sender.
At the same time, various technologies have come into play to allow a recipient server to check where an email came from. I say "technologies", plural, because there couldn't be just one could there; oh no: that'd be way to *@$&^#! simple. And if you don't have them all in place: well then stuff can and will go missing.
This is something I'm working on. I've been spending an hour or two on it most mornings for about a month now. I will get to the bottom of it, piece by piece, eventually... and then the goalposts will move.
Alas some of you are going to have problems with the new forum software... while others will find that problems you had with the old forum are no longer an issue.
I'm currently running a seven year old Mac and there are a number of things I can no longer do. For example: I can no longer use Webmin's file manager because it needs a newer Java plugin than the one I have. I can't upgrade that without upgrading the OS and I can't do that on this aged hardware. For now I can live without the file manager... but I reckon I'm only a year or two, if I'm lucky, away from finding that something I NEED stops working and I have to upgrade.
Point is, to those of you who are struggling: I feel your pain. But there's no real solution to this. If we never upgraded the TG software then TG would eventually become inaccessible to members running new software and hardware. Upgrade and we cause problems for members running old systems. There is no solution that can satisfy everybody, so ultimately it becomes a personal decision for each of us about when to upgrade the systems for which we are responsibe, a compromise between what we can and can't afford to do without.
Like I say: I feel your pain; it affects me too.