Unfortunately, it did not.   After clicking on the link, it briefly said something like:
your acccount has been activating. Thank you for registering.
but when I do the "I forgot my password" it still says:
The email/username information submitted could not be found

Thanks again for working on this.

John

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 10:25 AM Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org> wrote:
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 <jppoet@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 12:41 PM
> Subject: Re: Help logging in to forum
> To: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
>
>
> 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@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@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@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
> > > > >