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."

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....

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:

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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

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Thanks for trying to help.

John

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 10:24 AM Michael Tremer < michael.tremer@ipfire.org> wrote:

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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:

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I apologize for asking a non-dev question, but I don't know how

else

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to get in touch without someone that can help...

I believe I registered for the ipfire forum a while back, but I

am

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unable to log in now. When I try the "I forgot my password"

option

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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

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be used." The FAQ says to contact an administrator, but fails

to

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say how to contact an administrator. Can anyone here help?

Thank you,

John