Ahh so thats what you're doing.
Renewed chess.com email not working properly
I did an experiment this way:
I sent email as kohai@chess.com from AddThis to my regular e-mail. Then I send reply from my regular e-mail. Did you receive it?
How it is possible sending an e-mail from AddThis disguised as somebody else?
I remember getting told that chess com email was being fazed out and that is why I couldn't access mine any more
Yes, but staff has been aware of that 2 years. Despite this free chess.com email is still advertised on widgets.
So I came to conclusion they mean not the old @chess.com mailbox, but AddThis email service (toolbar above, the white cross in red square). I feel an obligation to notice staff that AddThis email service contains serious bugs and requires a lot of fixing to become adequate full replacement for regular e-mail account.
Okay, I have made some little progress. I registered Polar_Bear@chess.com email adress in the AddThis and I can log in with it, but it still requires captcha when sending messages, length remains limited and I can't find inbox.
Chess.com offered free e-mail in the past, but this service was discontinued. However it is still advertised here:
http://www.chess.com/widgets/
therefore I suppose Chess.com intends to offer adequate replacement in the form of AddThis e-mail. Although I can easily send an e-mail as Polar_Bear@chess.com (I have never registered in the past), I met some serious bugs I would like to get fixed:
1) AddThis doesn't recognize my Chess.com account and treats me like anonymous (requires captcha etc).
2) I can send an e-mail as anyone @chess.com (e.g. kohai) and AddThis fails to block it.
3) This is perhaps the most serious one: I don't know where I can read replies.
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4) The length is severely limited there to 255 characters per message.