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Accessing Private Messages

I received a gmail telling me I had a private message and to click on this link:

 http://www.afterellen-d.mtvi.com/privatemsg

The problem is a LDAP authentication is required (WTF?), and it wouldn't accept my user name and/or password. What's up with that?

 

 

 

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Submitted by
Molly Bolt (173 posts)
on November 30, 2007 - 8:37am.
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MsWoo's picture

hmmmm

Submitted by
MsWoo, Moderator (409 posts)
on November 30, 2007 - 12:30pm.

A WHOIS search of mtvi.com reveals that the owner of the site is VIACOMM

 

(See http://whois.domaintools.com/mtvi.com). As AE is affiliated via LOGO with the company it would seem that the message you received is somehow site-generated. However, I am not certain how this occurred. Perhaps Sarah can enlighten us on this one. It likely has to do with part of the site code.

smokinbluegrass's picture

My guess is that it's some sort of spoofing spam.

Submitted by
smokinbluegrass, Moderator (620 posts)
on November 30, 2007 - 12:36pm.
When I receive an e-mail notification that I have a message waiting, the link NEVER has the "-d.mtvi" in it. The link always has the plain "afterellen.com". My suggestion, until we hear from Sarah, is that when you receive a notification like that, log on to the site the regular way and see if you really have a message. If you have the aggressive notification turned on in your profile, then you will see a notification at the top of every page you visit on the site.
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Interesting. The wording

Submitted by
Molly Bolt (173 posts)
on November 30, 2007 - 2:42pm.

Interesting. The wording was identical to email notifications I've gotten previously. I didn't even realize there was a difference until I clicked on that link. I thought it may have been changed as part of the site upgrade. In any case, I wound up logging on the regular way to see if I could retrieve the message.

Thanks for the input.  I'd still like to know what that link is.

 

 

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No

Submitted by
Chantal (272 posts)
on November 30, 2007 - 6:18pm.

Unless it is www.afterellen.com then my guess is that the link sent to you in the e-mail was a faulty one.

It is like those eBay things a little while ago, it looks the same, it acts the same, but if it's a different address then you're used to it is definitely NOT the same.

 

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Pyewacket's picture

But speaking of private messages...

Submitted by
Pyewacket (578 posts)
on November 30, 2007 - 7:28pm.

am I the only one who never gets any sort of indication any more when there is a new message in the inbox?  Ever since the last upgrade...I have no clue if there is a private message waiting for me or not...there is no longer any indicator...so I have to continuously check.  Last week there even seemed to be a delay of a few days between when the message was sent and when I finally received it.

Anyone else having problems?

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Pyewacket...

Submitted by
smokinbluegrass, Moderator (620 posts)
on November 30, 2007 - 7:34pm.
Is "Aggressive notification of new messages" still checked on your profile settings?
Pyewacket's picture

Thanks muchly! :^)

Submitted by
Pyewacket (578 posts)
on December 2, 2007 - 5:24pm.
That did the trick!
Molly Bolt's picture

Weird. I've gotten that

Submitted by
Molly Bolt (173 posts)
on December 2, 2007 - 12:59pm.
Weird. I've gotten that email with the above link for three consecutive days now. I wish I knew where it was coming from. If anyone is familiar with the code on this site and can tell me how this message is generated, I'd like to know.
smokinbluegrass's picture

I got some messages yesterday...

Submitted by
smokinbluegrass, Moderator (620 posts)
on December 2, 2007 - 3:15pm.
...and they DID NOT have that weird link you describe. They were linking to regular "afterellen.com".
sarahwarn's picture

Sorry about this

Submitted by
Sarah Warn, Editor in Chief (3242 posts)
on December 2, 2007 - 5:17pm.

The address afterellen-d.mtvi.com is our test server - that's where they were testing the upgrade before they rolled it out on the live site a few weeks ago. It must be accidentally sending out private message alerts - I'll let my tech team know about this first thing tomorrow (Monday) and they should be able to fix it within a day or so. Sorry again!

Molly Bolt's picture

Sarah to the rescue! :)

Submitted by
Molly Bolt (173 posts)
on December 3, 2007 - 8:30am.
Sarah to the rescue! :) Thanks for taking care of it.

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