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GENERAL CHEESE MAKING BOARDS (Specific Cheese Making in Boards above) => Problems - Questions - Problems - Questions? => Topic started by: John@PC on July 28, 2014, 05:38:39 PM
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I have a friend who is having problems joining the forum. I've quoted part of his email that explains the problem. Anyone else having problems like this, or know how you may help him? Thanks.
The purpose of this email is that I have been trying to register for
cheesforum.org for a few weeks now and the system will never send me a
activation email. I registered with this email address and have
requested the forum site to resend activation code at least 20 times
and it never arrives either in my spam folder or inbox. I even tried
registering another email address and user name and that email address
also never got an activation code.
It's been a while since I registered and I don't remember the protocol or the registration procudure so I'm not much help to him :(.
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Ok, like Richard Nixon said, "let me be clear... >:(". On the suggestion of my friend I tried to register with another email address and the same thing happened: I never received an activation email even if I requested a second time. Something has to be amiss or the CF elf who sends out the activation email must be napping. Bueller? Bueler???
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John, quite a while ago now I stopped getting notifications on posts and PMs, even though I have my settings correctly set. I did e-mail our web guru several times, but haven't heard anything. Not sure what's going on...related, maybe?
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Paul, I got a notice about your reply so at least that worked for me. I guess we can blame in on the "summer doldrums" ;).
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I've received an email from a third person trying (unsuccessfully) to register on the forum. I'll try to keep this thread active until the problem is corrected. Any help would be appreciated.
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I went to the member list and see that new members have registered as recently as today. I tried myself to register just now under a different email and did not receive a activation email back. I wonder if any of the new members had problems or is it "operator error" on out part?
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I've also received an e-mail from someone who has tried to register but also who is not getting an activation e-mail. I PM'd John (CH) about it, which ended my involvement so I don't know if things got sorted.
- Jeff
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Hey John -
I'm not having that issue, but still not getting notices of any updates to bookmarked threads, or notices of PMs from the board. I've gotten used to it and I know you have your hands full with spammers lately, just an FYI in case anything rings a bell. Many thanks for your hosting this wonderful gathering spot!
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I've also received an e-mail from someone who has tried to register but also who is not getting an activation e-mail. I PM'd John (CH) about it, which ended my involvement so I don't know if things got sorted.
Just found this thread. My activation email was not delivered to my gmail address, and in the end I tried registering with an alternative e-mail address, and my activation notice arrived almost immediately. Thanks for your kind assistance, Jeff. I'm on board now too. :D
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I've also received an e-mail from someone who has tried to register but also who is not getting an activation e-mail. I PM'd John (CH) about it, which ended my involvement so I don't know if things got sorted.
Just found this thread. My activation email was not delivered to my gmail address, and in the end I tried registering with an alternative e-mail address, and my activation notice arrived almost immediately. Thanks for your kind assistance, Jeff. I'm on board now too. :D
by any chance did you check you spam box some times they go there in G-mail
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Hi Reflector,
Glad to hear it got sorted! Looking forward to seeing some of your makes. Lots of good tips and make protocols here, but more can always be added to the mix.
- Jeff
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I had the exact same problem when I tried to join, and I believe it's to do with free web-based email addresses like Gmail. I tried registering with both my Gmail and Hotmail accounts and never got an activation email, not even in the spam folder. I even used the contact form to try and get in touch with whoever runs this place, but never heard anything. It wasn't until I used my work email address that I finally got an activation email -- and straight away!
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by any chance did you check you spam box some times they go there in G-mail
Yup, I sifted through the offerings of super lucrative investments, free furniture, and various dubious ointments and capsules, but alas, nothing of a cheesy nature.
Stuart, you may have a point. The activation email finally came through on my old student email account, which is linked to that of a university.
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Well thats funny it must have changed since I joined cause I used G-mail and no problems ???
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I received an email from someone today who has tried multiple times to register and did not get a confirmation email. A few days ago I tried to register with an email account at GMX.com ( free email ) and did get the confirmation email.
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Ok, we may be closing in on the problem(s). I got this email from one of my customers:
Just figured it out - you have to use a pop or imap mail account -
gmail and yahoo etc do not work. So, I just set up an account.
Thanks again John. M
Now I don't know much about pop or imap but I did notice that if you look at the most recently joined members none have gmail or yahoo accounts. Now I'm like HKJ and registered over a year ago with a gmail account with no problem. I wonder if there was a server move or something that triggered the problem (no techie am I :(). I know our webmaster is located in Qatar now, not that that has anything to do with it. I've got an email back to Michael so maybe he can give more detail. I've also contacted two others that reported problems, so Helen and Judy if your still out there hopefully we can get this fixed. Still would be nice to have a little more help from the "top".
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Could be a change in gmail; could also be a change in the software that runs the forum. However, there is another possibility -- some time back, the organization for which I work found itself unable to send any emails to gmail and hotmail accounts. The problem was that a virus caused spam to be sent from our IP addresses, which then caused us to be blacklisted by gmail and hotmail. It took quite a while to get off the black list.
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The better half is unable to register here.....no confirmation email.
No problems registering at other forums.
???
:(
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Apparently the root problem hasn't been resolved yet by the webmaster. My guess is your "better half" has a gmail, yahoo, aol, etc address. If so you may want to try going through a different email supplier. I wanted to try to find out what was a good "alternative" but I got a hand slap and gave up. If you do find a solution please let everyone know because I wouldn't be surprised if there are a bunch of others out there who "want to get in" but can't.
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Tried 6 different email addresses...nothing works...it's impossible to register.
Very discouraging! :(
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I now have 5 unwanted email accounts----finally the gmx.com worked.
Qdog
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We tried GMX, it didn't work for us.
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Hi all, just opened this thread and read posts. Don't know what the problems are, many people setting up new accounts each day.
Any of you can email me any time, I've put my address on the log in page. Also you can PM me anytime, just go to top menu > My Messages > Send a Message > in To type Webmaster.
To help me find a persons account, please give me User ID, email address etc, otherwise I have no idea how to find you . . .
DiggingDog, welcome, did you use the same email address, that is not allowed.
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No different addresses.
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That's probably the problem, you need different email addresses.
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They were all different email addresses.
I registered with my personal email address.
The better half tried to register with the farm email address and 5 other email addresses...none of them worked.
I sent you an email.
Thanks!