No email notification of synchronized webpages

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Hello,
I use the synchronization feature of windows to view offline webpages. It
used to email me the pages when they changed, but now it does not. I have
checked all the settings and they are correct. I use outlook express and ie 6
w/ XP service pack 2. Any ideas?
 
drdug said:
I use the synchronization feature of windows to view offline webpages. It
used to email me the pages when they changed,
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And "it" that e-mails you is who or what? You'll have to contact whatever
is that service that is supposed to e-mail changes for the web pages that
you have allowed them to track. Obviously how could Windows, Internet
Explorer, Linux, Mac, or anything else possible ever determine a web page
had changed until it navigates there?
 
In IE it allows you to send mail to yourself when a webpage changes. You can
find it at tools>synchronize>properties>download tab. Since it is a Microsoft
function built in to IE, I thought someone here with KNOWLEDGE of IE may have
an answer.
 
drdug said:
In IE it allows you to send mail to yourself when a webpage changes. You
can
find it at tools>synchronize>properties>download tab. Since it is a
Microsoft
function built in to IE, I thought someone here with KNOWLEDGE of IE may
have
an answer.
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Which means that Windows MUST go *online* to check if there is a new page.
That means you have to schedule when to go look. Do you have any scheduling
defined to go look? That means there must be a network connection and that
you can reach the Internet? When the check is scheduled to run, is there a
network connection? Is is a dial-up or broadband connection? If broadband,
do you have your firewall, security software, or NIC configured to be
disabled when the screen saver is active? Is the firewall configured to
permit Internet access only at certain times? Do you have a firewall in a
NAT router between your computer and your ISP, and does it have any
scheduling of when to permit Internet access? Is you ISP up at that time (I
had one a long time ago that had scheduled downtime on every Sunday starting
at 3AM)? Did you check if the e-mail got sent? Do you have anti-spam
filtering enabled anywhere? If so, and if it doesn't just delete the spam,
have you checked the other folders to see if the suspected spam mail got
moved out of your Inbox? Do you have your computer configured to go into
Standby mode? Some NICs get disabled in Standby mode? Did you leave the
computer on? Is the computer powered up when you scheduled to perform the
web page check, or might it have gone into Hibernate mode?

Yep, lots of interdependencies there.
 
Thanks for your reply. Yes it does run when I do it manually. I have a T3
connection that is always on. it runs the updates fine, it just does not send
an email notification any longer.
 
drdug said:
Thanks for your reply. Yes it does run when I do it manually. I have a T3
connection that is always on. it runs the updates fine, it just does not
send
an email notification any longer.
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A T3 connection (a digital channel which communicates at 45 Mbps). WOW!
How much did that cost you? Doesn't look like you are talking about
problems at home when using Internet Explorer.

How are the settings configured for Synchronize? Is the checkbox enabled
for the web page (so it is selected to get synchronized)? Click on the web
page that you want to keep synchronized and click on Properties button. Is
the option enabled for "Make this page available offline"? If that option
is not enabled, the Download tab will not be available. Under the Schedule
tab, are there any scheduled times to check the web page? For those
scheduled events, is the option enabled for "If my computer is not connected
.... connect for me"? If you have a broadband/LAN connection, you might not
need this option. If you really have a DSL connection, did you check the
PPPoE settings to make sure the keep-alive option is enabled? If not, you
will lose your session. Under the Download tab, are the e-mail options
configured correctly?

Apparently there was a problem with IE SP-1; see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/821591/en-us. Have you applied the latest
Windows Updates?
 
I have checked the settings and they are correct. It took me a little time to
recognize that i was not receiving my notices. Yes i do have a T3, I use it
in my work, from home, and I download extremely large databases with it. It
is part of a collabrative effort in climate modeling that i am working on.
Anyway, when this happened in IE 5, i had to enter my user password for each
one to gain access to run the program in scheduling agent. That is no longer
an issue in IE 6. i have these updates to occur at differing times and days,
and since my computer is always on, there should be no problem there.
 
drdug said:
I have checked the settings and they are correct. It took me a little time
to
recognize that i was not receiving my notices. Yes i do have a T3, I use
it
in my work, from home, and I download extremely large databases with it.
It
is part of a collabrative effort in climate modeling that i am working on.
Anyway, when this happened in IE 5, i had to enter my user password for
each
one to gain access to run the program in scheduling agent. That is no
longer
an issue in IE 6. i have these updates to occur at differing times and
days,
and since my computer is always on, there should be no problem there.
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Then I'd start focusing on the e-mail client specified as the default MAPI
client. Could be those e-mails are not getting to the e-mail client.
Presumably you are not seeing them stuck in the Outbox. Turn on logging in
your default e-mail client to check if it even tries to send mail at one of
the times scheduled for web synchronization.

Do you have the Power Options configured to put your computer into Standby
or Hibernate mode? If so, try disabling power savings for awhile to see if
e-mail then works. The network interface probably gets disabled when in a
power saving mode. Also, some security products, like firewalls, have an
option to block any traffic when the screen saver activates.
 
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