Stopping GCA Alerts

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Stopping GCA Alerts

Post by Nodalot » 20 March 21 7:06 pm

I have been receiving GCA Alerts for years now and I wish to stop them.
Reason being it is taking me too long to find my own personal emails which become threaded with the alerts.
I need to know how to stop them coming so I can set up a new address for them to come to.
This has stumped me for about 12 months and I wish to stop them coming to this address.
Please help!
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Re: Stopping GCA Alerts

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Re: Stopping GCA Alerts

Post by Richary » 22 March 21 2:23 pm

I am curious as to why I sometimes get multiple published alerts for the 1 locationless. This one for example:

GCA Alert: Published: (GA20997) Golden-Backed Rabbit-Rat

I have received alerts for it 3 times today, timestamped 8:45am, 9:15am and now 2:10pm. And Cybergran V doesn't seem to have pressed publish on it multiple times.

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Re: Stopping GCA Alerts

Post by caughtatwork » 22 March 21 3:04 pm

No idea. I have seen this a few time sin the past but I can't work out what is happening.

The alert checks for a log date and time which is greater than 5 minutes ago. By the time the 2nd and 3rd emails were generated, unless there is a time anomaly, the original posted date and time of the log should have not hit that trigger as 5 minutes ago should not have included that time.

I've added some logging to the alert routine to see if I can catch anything, so please report if you encounter the problem again.

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Re: Stopping GCA Alerts

Post by Richary » 22 March 21 9:40 pm

Thanks. It's no biggie but I have seen it in the past. I will keep an eye out, partly curious if the extra alerts were going to everyone or just me (in which case there was a slight chance it could have been some weirdness between Thunderbird and gmail though I didn't expect that to be the case).

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Re: Stopping GCA Alerts

Post by WazzaAndWenches » 22 March 21 9:59 pm

It will be interesting to see what C@W's logging shows up. I, too, have had multiple alerts for the same new locationless caches over recent months -all from the same CO. Is it possible the CO is publishing it more than once, or there's a problem with their device (I know the CO uses and ipad)??

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Re: Stopping GCA Alerts

Post by caughtatwork » 23 March 21 10:17 am

Ahhh, thanks for that last piece of information. Cybergran V was indeed publishing multiple times.

Log Cache Publish https://geocaching.com.au/my/log/new/ga20997 2021-03-22 14:09:48
Log Cache Publish https://geocaching.com.au/my/log/new/ga20997 2021-03-22 09:12:53
Log Cache Publish https://geocaching.com.au/my/log/new/ga20997 2021-03-22 08:42:43

The publish logs trigger the alert, but the duplicate logs have been deleted by the user so when I went investigating they were not apparent. Our stats logs however, show them quite clearly.

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Re: Stopping GCA Alerts

Post by Richary » 24 March 21 5:17 pm

Aha - I had looked for duplicate publish logs but if they had been deleted that explains why I couldn't see them :)

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Re: Stopping GCA Alerts

Post by Now_To_Morrow » 30 December 23 6:08 pm

This is actually about the opposite of this topic.

I've got alerts activated and get emails for new caches within a radius of 200km. My question is 200km radius from where? I just published a new cache something like 50km from home but didn't receive an email alert for it like I normally would. I couldn't see an option on the alerts page to alter the epicentre.

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Re: Stopping GCA Alerts

Post by caughtatwork » 31 December 23 11:56 am

From your home co-ordinates.
https://wiki.geocaching.com.au/wiki/Cache_alerts

Google has decided to be a pain in the ass.
Dec 30 16:05:04 garmin postfix/smtp[563]: 1192C180858B9: to=<YOURMEILADDRESS>, relay=gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[74.125.130.26]:25, delay=2.1, delays=0/0.01/1.3/0.73, dsn=5.7.26, status=bounced (host gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[74.125.130.26] said: 550-5.7.26 This mail has been blocked because the sender is unauthenticated. 550-5.7.26 Gmail requires all senders to authenticate with either SPF or DKIM. 550-5.7.26 550-5.7.26 Authentication results: 550-5.7.26 DKIM = did not pass 550-5.7.26 SPF [geocaching.com.au] with ip: [27.121.112.196] = did not pass 550-5.7.26 550-5.7.26 For instructions on setting up authentication, go to 550 5.7.26 https://support.google.com/mail/answer/ ... entication i13-20020a056a00004d00b006d9ac93cf24si10850888pfk.14 - gsmtp (in reply to end of DATA command))
I'll have to defer this one to CraigRat to see if he can fix it somewhere.

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Re: Stopping GCA Alerts

Post by Now_To_Morrow » 31 December 23 5:54 pm

Excellent. Thank you. I thought it was my home coords, hence the confusion. Fingers crossed CraigRat can fix things for you/us/me.

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Re: Stopping GCA Alerts

Post by CraigRat » 02 January 24 1:02 pm

Just for the record, I hate gmail... they love to move the goalposts.

Have sent possible fix via PM to C@W,

Happy New Year all!

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Re: Stopping GCA Alerts

Post by CraigRat » 02 January 24 1:54 pm

Fix applied, hopefully it works!

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Re: Stopping GCA Alerts

Post by caughtatwork » 02 January 24 2:52 pm

You're a wonderful fellow to help out like this. Much appreciated.

Everyone: Please thank CR for the background work he does that goes over my head :-)

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Re: Stopping GCA Alerts

Post by Now_To_Morrow » 02 January 24 3:13 pm

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