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Forum account email

Jones — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 17:26:31 GMT

I am trying to change my forum email address because I have decided to cancel my Plusnet email rather than have it moved to Greenby.

I made the change, but I have changed back because the confirnation email for my new address has not arrived. The Plusnet confirmation email has arrived OK.

Any ideas?

Re: Forum account email

Townman — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 19:45:00 GMT

Who is the target email provider?

There is a possibility that delivery of the email had been declined.

@James_B

Is there any review of non-delivery events arising from emails sent by the forum service? The failure to receive account confirmation emails is disconcerting. Has the service implemented the same DKIM / SPF / DMARC measures Plusnet adopted to address the bulk sender issues encountered with Microsoft and Gmail?

iCloud seems even more of a problem (I’ve got issues with a service I run elsewhere).

Re: Forum account email

Jones — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:08:32 GMT

@Townman,
Thank you for your reply.
The target provider is Microsoft.

Re: Forum account email

Townman — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:26:58 GMT

That could explain a LOT. Hopefully the question to the forum owner might identify if the forum provider has implemented Microsoft’s demands for bulk emailer services.

Re: Forum account email

Jones — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 22:24:47 GMT

Thank you.

Re: Forum account email

Jones — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 17:16:04 GMT

@Townman ,

I tried with a Gmail address and the confirmation email arrived.

It's an email address that I don't use anymore, but it'll do for this purpose.

Re: Forum account email

Townman — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:28:08 GMT

That points towards the Microsoft bulk sender restrictions.

@Peter_JW can someone please raise this concern with the forum vendor.

Re: Forum account email

Jones — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 07:55:56 GMT

I've received an email that suggests that it has been fixed.
I will try again later with a Microsoft email address.

Re: Forum account email

MisterW — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 08:41:56 GMT

@Townman AFAICS notification emails from community do seem to meet the bulk sender reqs i.e SPF DKIM and an Unsubscribe link

Authentication-Results: mailhub-cam-d.mythic-beasts.com;
	spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=em7732.eu.khoros-mail.com;
	dkim=pass header.d=eu.khoros-mail.com header.s=s1 header.a=rsa-sha256

List-Unsubscribe-Post: List-Unsubscribe=One-Click
List-Unsubscribe: 
 =?us-ascii?Q?=3Chttps=3A=2F=2Fcommunity=2Eplus=2Enet=2Ft5=2Fuser=2Fremoveuseremailpage=2Fuser-i?=
 =?us-ascii?Q?d=2F1110=2Fmail-message-tracking=2FMLPO9U9ZCA?=
 =?us-ascii?Q?BV2T=3E?=

Re: Forum account email

Peter_JW — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 10:02:26 GMT

Thanks for flagging, @Townman.

I've made the Community management team aware so we can look to get this raised.

Peter

Re: Forum account email

AyToZed — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:31:35 GMT

Experience.

I used a outlook.com address to create a forum account.

The mail with the confirmation link never arrived. I tried resending, until the community web interface declared I had done that action too much.

Today I can resend. The confirmation e-mail arrived in the junk mail folder of the outlook.com account. At 04:17 this morning. The confirmation is now resolved.

I'd really have to delve into the e-mail headers of the received as (apparently) the time received was 04:17 this morning. That was a time long after the reported 'too many attempts' as reported by the community software. It is also a time that is before my last (seemingly successful) attempt to resend the confirmation.

I'd be appreciative if anyone knows how to view received e-mails to MS's webservices so that headers (or any remaining headers, because they can and do get re-written) can be seen.

Re: Forum account email

Jones — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:57:38 GMT

I tried with my Microsoft email address again. No confirmation email arrived, so I've switched back to my gmail address.

Re: Forum account email

Jones — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:57:14 GMT

As a silly exercise I tried an iCloud email address. The confirmation email didn't arrive.

So Gmail addresses work, but Outlook and iCloud ones don't.

The moral of this story: Avoid Outlook and iCloud. Probably best to avoid Gmail as well.

Re: Forum account email

Jones — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 13:16:15 GMT

I was wrong about the confirmation email not arriving when I changed to an iCloud email address. I found it in the Junk folder.