Inconsistently receiving emails on some of the forms

  • lafhab2
    Asked on September 13, 2015 at 4:33 AM

    As for emails, I would say a couple of days a week notifications don't get through, and a few people completing them recently say they haven't received their autoresponder.  Through posting such as 'emails not being sent/received' a search on your forums clearly indicates this is a common and frequent occurrence.  And quite often these issues are intermittent, emails may not come for a day or so then start coming again, so it's hard to provide specifics for your backend team to investigate.

    If you want an example of emails not being sent then form:
    http://form.jotformeu.com/form/41603740032340 - submissions 104, 105 & 106 did not land in our inbox (or junk/trash), and all jotform domains are 'whitelisted.'

    If we had just a handful of forms then it wouldn't be so bad, the bottom line is we have over 200 forms and we need to be reliably notified of all submissions because this is too many to manually search through.  Beyond doubt emails cannot be relied upon,   in the absence of reliable emails we need reliable integration, eg Google sheets.  When either or both of these options prove unreliable then what value is this service?  If this service was free then we couldn't really complain but it's not.

    From our perspective, forget fancy features etc, Jotform needs to improve overall reliability.

  • Jeanette JotForm Support
    Replied on September 13, 2015 at 7:31 PM

    We truly apologize for all this, we had a glitch for 24 hrs, with user that had the option "Attach PDF" enabled or had custom sender emails.

    Our google integration is very reliable, but if they change their rules with their api, then the integrations might be affected, but our engineers usually will fix these critical integrations in no time.

     

     

  • lafhab2
    Replied on September 15, 2015 at 8:46 AM

    We are having ongoing frustration with the email notifications, clearly they cannot be relied upon.

    We have activated the Daily Digest in the hope that this will provide a definitive list of submissions but in the 3 days since we did we have received no such email. Does this not work either?
  • Elton Support Team Lead
    Replied on September 15, 2015 at 12:18 PM

    Thanks for your reply and we apologize for the inconveniences caused.

    The problem with emails was rectified few days ago but if you are still not receiving notifications, please let us know which form and what email addresses so we can check it on the server logs.