Hi John, I did receive it. It is just that my mailbox is always full :) On Fri, 2015-08-28 at 16:12 +0000, John P Poet wrote: > Hi Michael, I tried sending the below directly to you, but i get the > impression that you did not receive it. > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: John P Poet > Date: Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 12:41 PM > Subject: Re: Help logging in to forum > To: Michael Tremer > > > Hi Michael, > > I did receive a "Welcome to forum.ipfire.org". I clicked on the link > to activate, then I tried to do the "I forgot my password" with: > > Username: jpoet > Email address: jppoet(a)gmail.com > > It came back with "The email/username information submitted could not > be found." Yeah, I get the same. I clicked the "reactivation" button again for your account and you should have an other registration email. Lets hope that works. If not I will manually reset your password to something and send it to you and you change it. > > If this is too much trouble, I could use my company email, but I did > that some with my last job and since no longer work there.... Best, -Michael > Thanks, > > John > > On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 12:17 PM Michael Tremer < > michael.tremer(a)ipfire.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Thu, 2015-08-27 at 17:34 +0000, John P Poet wrote: > > > Hi Michael, > > > > > > I usually use jpoet (or if 5 characters is not enough, then > > jppoet). > > > I may not have registered on the forum. It saying that my email > > > could not be used, had be believing that I already had. Since > > Erik > > > says it may just be blocking gmail, then my assumption is > > probably > > > wrong. > > > > > > I also have an outlook email, but I almost never look at it. I > > can > > > try to register with it and see if that works -- unless outlook > > is > > > also blocked? > > > > Yes outlook.com is blocked, too. > > > > I created an account for you. This was really troublesome because > > phpBB > > does not have a functionality for that and after I created an > > account > > on the normal way, not even the admin is allowed to change the > > email > > address to one that is blocked. Weird. > > > > You should have received an activation email now. Please use the "I > > forgot my password" function to reset the password. > > > > Apologies for all this trouble. > > > > Best, > > -Michael > > > > > > > > Thanks for trying to help. > > > > > > John > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 10:24 AM Michael Tremer < > > > michael.tremer(a)ipfire.org> wrote: > > > > Hello John, > > > > > > > > what is your username on the forums? I could not find an > > account > > > > that > > > > is registered to this email address. > > > > > > > > Best, > > > > -Michael > > > > > > > > On Wed, 2015-08-26 at 13:00 -0600, John P Poet wrote: > > > > > I apologize for asking a non-dev question, but I don't know > > how > > > > else > > > > > to get in touch without someone that can help... > > > > > > > > > > I believe I registered for the ipfire forum a while back, but > > I > > > > am > > > > > unable to log in now. When I try the "I forgot my password" > > > > option > > > > > it says my email/username could not be found. When I try to > > > > > register, it says "The email address you entered is not > > allowed > > > > to > > > > > be used." The FAQ says to contact an administrator, but > > fails > > > > to > > > > > say how to contact an administrator. Can anyone here help? > > > > > > > > > > Thank you, > > > > > > > > > > John > > > > >