I very damned near out-smarted myself. If you were among those who read my rather frantic post yesterday on a temporary blog I set up while I was locked out of this WordPress.com account, you will recall that yesterday I was heartsick at the thought that I had lost access to my blogs. I never did figure out how the password got changed. But I did finally figure out why I wasn’t getting the password re-set e-mails.
I really don’t use e-mail much at all anymore. And one of the biggest things that contributed to my e-mail being so full of junk messages that it simply wasn’t worth it to try to spot the occasional message that actually required attention was the huge number of automated messages I receive from WordPress.com blogs. The trouble is they get sent out with all kinds of different return e-mail addresses that it proved very difficult to set up filters to manage the flow. And it turns out I had set a filter that caused all messages from donotreply@wordpress.com to “skip inbox”. Which is to say that I never saw the messages that were automatically deleted before being delivered. I deleted that filter rule, then went back to the login screen and sent myself a password re-set e-mail. It arrived instantly and ten minutes later I am typing this post. I will probably delete or hide the temporary blog I set up.
I can’t tell you how pleased and happy I am to be once again commanding my own blog ship. I am frankly a little embarrassed to have mis-configured my e-mail filters such that I could not receive the one message I really needed to receive. But I am thankful that I finally figured out what the problem was. And I promise that tomorrow I will be back with another Just Three Words post. My sincerest thanks to everyone who made a comment or suggestion. I really, really appreciate you all.
It’s tough when you outsmart yourself.
ain’t that the truth
I always go back to review setting, say three months, to prevent such thing to happen. Act and review.
There are so darned many settings for so darned many things. Where do you find the time and how do you keep track of what to check on?
I also got tired of all the automated messages from WP blogs I was following and just went in and turned off that form of notification for future follows and then removed it from all the current blogs I follow… made my email account usable again without having to try and set-up filters.
You know, I used to be the king of e-mail filters. WP.com is a huge spambot I’m afraid.
I used to feel the same way but I almost never get an email from them anymore.
Glad you’re back Alan! Been having issues on my blog myself. Changed hosting but still getting downtimes.
I could sell you cloud hosting with great reliability and up-times but it would probably cost a lot more than what you are paying
Glad that’s resolved!
Me too. Thanks so much, Sandor.
Glad you worked it out. That is a rough spot to be in. Have a fantastic week!
You have a great week too, Anita.
Happy to see you back in. Cheers.
Thanks Sterling.
All’s well that ends well… and you’ll know what to do next time!
Yep. Don’t filter away messages you actually need