No longer receiving comment notification emails

I took a look at your entry, but I don’t know if I have enough info in here to help you.

Can you let me know a little more about what you’re seeing? Any ideas of the plugins you’ve got running?

Thanks so much for getting back to me! I do run Askimet to deal with spam, but nothing to help with comments. I’ve always just used the standard WordPress settings under Discussion, and I have checked the boxes that say, “Email me whenever anyone posts a comment” and “a comment is held for moderation.” This has always worked until recently. I haven’t changed email addresses or anything within my site, so that’s why I’m confused. I’m just not receiving the comment notification via email, but when I check my blog, I will have new comments.

This is going to sound weird, but have you checked your spam folder lately? From time to time those emails get flagged as spam on accident.

Yes, I check it regularly and nothing’s there. It just seems like that function on WordPress just stopped working. :/

I should add that I googled this and found old posts about it here in the forums (from as far back as 6 years ago to earlier this year) and nobody seems to know why this happens.

I use DreamHost for my hosting provider, and it looks like they changed their email notification settings at some point. When I created an email account using my domain name, I was able to receive comment notification emails again. I’ll mark this as resolved and hope it helps someone else.

This is definitely good to know. I was wracking my brain for possible reasons and couldn’t locate anything that made sense.