dcdeb Posted May 28, 2008 Share Posted May 28, 2008 (edited) Helloooo Everybodeeee! I'm posting this in the General Chinwagging section so that everyone can read it -- even new registrants whose accounts haven't been activated yet. As you might already know, some of us have been having problems receiving email notifications from the MFC ever since we moved servers all those weeks ago. For some reason, many of our ISPs (Internet Service Providers) don't like the new server we're on, and block any email that comes from it. That's why you're not getting your email notices when someone sends you a PM or there's a post to one of your subscribed threads. And it's also why many new users are not receiving an activation email when they register for the MFC. Our awesome tech god StandardToaster has been looking into this to correct the problem, but until it's fixed, we've come up with a work-around. (Kudos to Christine for suggesting this ) Sign up for a gmail account at gmail.com. Then, change your email address in your MFC account to that gmail account. It seems like the gmail server likes our server and will accept emails from it without a problem, so you should begin to get notices there. If, like me, you don't want to have to keep checking your gmail account for notices, you can set it to forward the email to whatever email address you wish. Instructions for forwarding gmail: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=10957&topic=13303 If your server is still blocking the gmail notices you can install the gmail notifier so you will be alerted when you get gmail through a little icon in your taskbar. Read about the gmail notifier here: http://toolbar.google.com/gmail-helper/notifier_windows.html Finally, for those of you who have registered but have not received an activation email -- send a PM to one of the moderators asking if we could please oh please manually activate your account so that you could begin posting. (As an alternative, you could also register using a gmail account address to begin with and pick up the activation email from there.) Any questions? As always, don't hesitate to contact me or one of the other mods, or FREDDIESDOUBLE. dcdeb Edited March 6, 2009 by dcdeb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finkster Posted May 28, 2008 Share Posted May 28, 2008 Bump for any newbies who might want to do this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcdeb Posted May 28, 2008 Author Share Posted May 28, 2008 Bump for any newbies who might want to do this. Thanks, Jess -- I know it's a lot of effort to go through, but until we get whatever issues are causing the problems resolved, this is the next best thing. Luckily, we have Andrew (ST) on the case, trying to sort it out! dcdeb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Sky Posted May 29, 2008 Share Posted May 29, 2008 Thank goodness for Standard Toaster, Christine and dcdeb. You guys are the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcdeb Posted June 2, 2008 Author Share Posted June 2, 2008 Bump... since we've been getting a lot of "activate my account" requests... dcdeb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sariflor Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 Helloooo Everybodeeee! I'm posting this in the General Chinwagging section so that everyone can read it -- even new registrants whose accounts haven't been activated yet. As you might already know, some of us have been having problems receiving email notifications from the MFC ever since we moved servers all those weeks ago. For some reason, many of our ISPs (Internet Service Providers) don't like the new server we're on, and block any email that comes from it. That's why you're not getting your email notices when someone sends you a PM or there's a post to one of your subscribed threads. And it's also why many new users are not receiving an activation email when they register for the MFC. Our awesome tech god StandardToaster has been looking into this to correct the problem, but until it's fixed, we've come up with a work-around. (Kudos to Christine for suggesting this ) Sign up for a gmail account at gmail.com. Then, change your email address in your MFC account to that gmail account. It seems like the gmail server likes our server and will accept emails from it without a problem, so you should begin to get notices there. If, like me, you don't want to have to keep checking your gmail account for notices, you can set it to forward the email to whatever email address you wish. Instructions for forwarding gmail: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=10957&topic=13303 If your server is still blocking the gmail notices you can install the gmail notifier so you will be alerted when you get gmail through a little icon in your taskbar. Read about the gmail notifier here: http://toolbar.google.com/gmail-helper/notifier_windows.html Finally, for those of you who have registered but have not received an activation email -- send a PM to StandardToaster asking if he could please oh please manually activate your account so that you could begin posting. (As an alternative, you could also register using a gmail account address to begin with and pick up the activation email from there.) Any questions? As always, don't hesitate to contact me or one of the other mods, or FREDDIESDOUBLE or StandardToaster! dcdeb So, if Christine was the one who suggested it, does she get to be the "Tech Goddess"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
violet_sky Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 So, if Christine was the one who suggested it, does she get to be the "Tech Goddess"? I'd say, that makes a lot of sense. And awesome. You forgot awesome. Awesome Tech Goddess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sariflor Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 I'd say, that makes a lot of sense. And awesome. You forgot awesome. Awesome Tech Goddess. Christine: change your custom title right now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcdeb Posted August 8, 2008 Author Share Posted August 8, 2008 BUMP -- because it seems like there's a lot of new members "Awaiting Activation," and because it seems like the email notifications are not working again... *sigh* dcdeb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcdeb Posted August 29, 2008 Author Share Posted August 29, 2008 bump... just to keep this in the public eye... dcdeb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angie. Posted September 6, 2008 Share Posted September 6, 2008 hello everybody! i'm new here! and it's true i had to wait for a while to be able to login. but NOW I CAN!!! HA! HA! HA!!! thanks to everybody who worked on it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcdeb Posted December 2, 2008 Author Share Posted December 2, 2008 *BUMP* It's been a while since I bumped this... hope that all the new registrants we've been getting lately see this! PM me or one of the other mods if you haven't received your activation email yet! dcdeb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melaniejazmin Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 I had this problem, but It was resolved later I didn't wait too much, only 5 days, no more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcdeb Posted December 4, 2008 Author Share Posted December 4, 2008 I had this problem, but It was resolved later I didn't wait too much, only 5 days, no more. I'm glad to hear that Melanie -- but some people have been waiting a while, I'm sure. The thing is, we don't know about it unless they tell us, so hopefully some of them will read this and give us a shout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racinghorse83 Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 Helloooo Everybodeeee! I'm posting this in the General Chinwagging section so that everyone can read it -- even new registrants whose accounts haven't been activated yet. As you might already know, some of us have been having problems receiving email notifications from the MFC ever since we moved servers all those weeks ago. For some reason, many of our ISPs (Internet Service Providers) don't like the new server we're on, and block any email that comes from it. That's why you're not getting your email notices when someone sends you a PM or there's a post to one of your subscribed threads. And it's also why many new users are not receiving an activation email when they register for the MFC. Our awesome tech god StandardToaster has been looking into this to correct the problem, but until it's fixed, we've come up with a work-around. (Kudos to Christine for suggesting this ) Sign up for a gmail account at gmail.com. Then, change your email address in your MFC account to that gmail account. It seems like the gmail server likes our server and will accept emails from it without a problem, so you should begin to get notices there. If, like me, you don't want to have to keep checking your gmail account for notices, you can set it to forward the email to whatever email address you wish. Instructions for forwarding gmail: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=10957&topic=13303 If your server is still blocking the gmail notices you can install the gmail notifier so you will be alerted when you get gmail through a little icon in your taskbar. Read about the gmail notifier here: http://toolbar.google.com/gmail-helper/notifier_windows.html Finally, for those of you who have registered but have not received an activation email -- send a PM to StandardToaster or one of the moderators asking if we could please oh please manually activate your account so that you could begin posting. (As an alternative, you could also register using a gmail account address to begin with and pick up the activation email from there.) Any questions? As always, don't hesitate to contact me or one of the other mods, or FREDDIESDOUBLE or StandardToaster! dcdeb this is so helpful. thanks very much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcdeb Posted March 6, 2009 Author Share Posted March 6, 2009 (edited) *BUMP* Seems like there are a lot of new registrations whose accounts haven't been activated yet, so I thought maybe this would get some of them to read the instructions on the first page. Again, if you or one of your friends, has joined MFC but has NOT received an email notice to activate your account, please send a message to me or one of the moderators and we'll get you sorted out! dcdeb FREDDIESDOUBLE guylainem123 robertina Christine Niki27 Queenie Diana happikali lollipop_monkey Edited March 6, 2009 by dcdeb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nana06 Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 Great idea! Thank goodness there are people that understand technology! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcdeb Posted April 20, 2009 Author Share Posted April 20, 2009 *bump* with all the new members, maybe a few folks need to read this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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