Registration emails still don't work
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Continuing the discussion from Registration emails don't work:
I'm assuming this is a bug specific to this implementation though for all I know, it could well be a bug in Discourse.
I signed up a couple of days ago (day and half? dunno) and didn't get a registration email. Knowing that such things disappear into the ether and concluding it could be a mail queue issue - knowing full well that I work on forum software myself! - I let it go for a bit and tried the resend option. I then left it most of yesterday and tried it again... nothing.
In the end, I found myself checking CS where someone helpfully suggested using password reset which worked.
This strikes me as interesting... firstly, registration emails aren't sending in the first place - there's a problem in itself. But as another question: why is it that inactivated users can effectively bypass activation by way of forgot password? I'm assuming that you're concluding 'user can get forgot-password email therefore the email is all good' but that is a fairly poor start when the user didn't get the original activation email in the first place...
So I just tried to register a second account for teh lulz purposes and still no registration email. Additionally, the method I used last time, requesting password reset, is also a no-go. Email address is correct (but different to my main account)
EDIT: Don't know if it's relevant but in both cases, we're talking about an account with fastmail.fm and I don't have any trouble with any other services. Last time I think I just hit the PaulaBeen rampage but this time?
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We just registered and it worked flawlessly.
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You can check Mandrill logs if you have access. All recent email sends are logged, but the logs are flushed after a bit, so you have to catch it at the right time.
Or maybe @apapadimoulis can do it. I know the community wanted him to turn off the default Mandrill-added link tracking, I can't remember if that got done yet or not.
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Well, the tracking would only confirm that I haven't clicked on anything, right? That might be because I haven't received anything either.
EDIT: Just done another reset password, went to do login (even though the account isn't approved yet), and got:
['BAD CSRF']
as the response. Yay for Opera 12.
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Here's a great post about tracing sent email within Mandrill from our very own Supermathie
https://meta.discourse.org/t/tracing-what-happens-with-email-sent-via-mandrill/16842
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Note, we also have a mail log that @PJH and @dhromed can dig through to see if we actually tried sending an email, just ping them with the email address you used.
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Thanks, I'll do that.
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And deny us the opportunity to spam @Arantor's mailbox?
It's no fun if we can do it directly. We're supposed to do it by abusing Discourse.
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It's no fun if we can do it directly. We're supposed to do it by abusing Discourse. @Arantor
FTFY
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I wonder if @Arantor is going to be angry about this.
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About the @Arantor mentions or about @apapadimoulis flashing his mail address to the forum?
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Mandrill disagree!
That problem was already pointed out to @arantor in a PM some hours ago.The fact that he also managed to also, in the same registration step, fuck up the spelling of the username he wanted also added to the LULZ of figuring out what went wrong...
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About the @Arantor mentions or about @apapadimoulis flashing his mail address to the forum?
About the email address thing. He seems quite keen to receive some mention abuse.
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That was my point. If he likes the @Arantor mentions would he object to some extra mail? Maybe he already has the option activated to receive mails when someone mentions @Arantor. In that case he is already receiving a nice stream of mails.
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If he likes the @Arantor mentions would he object to some extra mail?
While I'm sure @Arantor will relish the extra mail now, once the mentions get to @mikeTheLiar proportions, @Arantor might like to have the option of disabling email notifications.
With his email address published for all to see, he's going to have to change his entire identity to escape the abuse.
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Definitly @Arantor should at least change his mail provider. For example from @fastmail.com to @hotmail.com or @yahoo.com. The @mikeTheLiar mentions where a whole other categorie.
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Yes, I made fuck-ups. I'm human after all! I am, as ever, TRWTF.
Not really sure I appreciate my not-so-public email address being publicly shown, even though the normal address is splashed all over Github.
One thing, I do appreciate this community not having spammed the crap out of my email. Mentions are one thing (I turned off emails) but direct email address is something else.
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One thing, I do appreciate this community not having spammed the crap out of my email.
You mean you haven't had any emails from all the fresh vegetable mailing lists I subscribed you to?
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Not that I'd noticed, no.
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Isn't that this week's Guest Publication on "Have I Got News For You"?
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Isn't that this week's Guest Publication on "Have I Got News For You"?
No, that's Leek Weekly.
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No, that's Leek Weekly.
Leek Weekly incorporating the South Lincolnshire and Norfolk Alium Gazette
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Ah, I see. As long as you didn't sign me up to the militant religious vegetable newsletter - Lettuce Pray in particular - we'll get along fine.
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Uh oh >>.