LJ and Gmail, a bad romance?

[muckefuck]

Does anyone else here have LJ notifications sent to Gmail address? Since I switched e-mail accounts a few days ago, I've found that the two don't seem to be playing well together. As of this morning, I've only seen notifications for half the comments on the last WotD post. So I posted (and deleted) a test comment myself and never got an e-mail about it.

I haven't ruled out LJ weirdness, since I used to have this problem occasionally with my old account as well. And test messages from my work e-mail as well as general correspondence seem to be getting through okay (albeit slower than was the case before). Maybe I should go with a Yahoo e-mail account after all?

Update: I think I may have figured this out! I seem to falling afoul of the Gmail feature which collates mail from the same addresses. So whereas I thought I deleting one notification, I may actually have been trashing two or three simultaneously.

Comments

[paulintoronto.livejournal.com]

I have occasionally had notification problems, but for the most part, my lj and gmail accounts work well together. I just checked, and I don't seem to have missed any notifications in the recent past.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Thanks very much for checking. Hopefully it's just a hiccough.

[lhn.livejournal.com]

I think the notifications are sometimes delayed, but I've always attributed that to LJ. (Correctly? Who knows.) I'm pretty sure they always come through, though.

Since they're free, you could always experiment with both gmail and yahoo, and forward whichever one you don't decide to make primary to the other after you're done. (For that matter, Microsoft Live Mail supposedly has some nice features these days, though I haven't looked into it.)

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

See, now the Internet gremlins are trying to make a liar out of me by putting all of these through tout-de-suite.

[mollyc-q.livejournal.com]

I get my notifications on gmail, but I only get announcement from LJ and one of my friends, usually all comments. But I haven't figured out how to get notifications from all of my friends consistently - not sure how the setting defaulted as I haven't altered them. So, I don't know that LJ and Gmail are all that friendly.

I will say this given the data-mining google does, and the threat of a microsoft-yahoo merger - having accounts in both places is a hedge against future corporate weirdness if one must choose as it were. I have both.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

At this point, I'm considering creating an account solely for notifications.

[mollyc-q.livejournal.com]

In gmail you can set up a notifier so you don't have to keep a browser window open.

[pklexton.livejournal.com]

I find yahoo pretty reliable, and haven't tried gmail. Occasionally there are delays though on yahoo as well. Hard to know why it happens.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

36 minutes and this one hasn't shown up so far.

[mollyc-q.livejournal.com]

I can testify to time delays on gmail for notifications, its not consistently very quick much less instant. For what its worth, I can also affirm Pklexton's note of delays on yahoo - this for regular mail, upwards of hours at a time and similarly a delay in people receiving email from that account.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Speediness wasn't a big concern for me, since these days I'll text if I need an instant answer. But wouldn't you know it that the very day of the changeover I got into an argument with someone that moved to e-mail, and I climbed the damn walls waiting for the first reply.

[mollyc-q.livejournal.com]

Actually, you have reminded me of the biggest bit of crazy on Gmail - as much as I like the thread function - sometimes its very hard to see email within a thread if there is a gap in the delivery time. Meaning I notice an unread email, buried 6 back in a string of replies. I could see where that would trip notifications a bit.