It struck me as odd that I stopped getting email notices of new posts and private messages but I discovered that I had notifications for the last month that I never saw. I checked my 'settings' and it looked like I should be getting them. Most of the messages were dated to the point that answering now makes no sense. Sorry.
I received 51 old notices last night in a period of 15 minutes. There is something wrong with the email system.
Yep, woke up this morning with a crap load of email notifications. I was actually getting used to checking the site without them.