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Signup email not being sent to certain addresses
I have signed up for an account and did not receive the validation email even though I received the following message:
"Your new account has been created, and an email has been sent with an activation code to the email address you provided. Check out the lastest headlines while you wait for your email! "
I have waited about half an hour and have checked my spam directory every time (even though Gmail is yet to ever send a registration email to my spam folder). I believe this has happened to me at least twice now, although I cant be sure about the first instance as my memory of it is a bit foggy. I suspect this may have also been why I've never had an account at your site, but I can't be certain.
I can not provide my email address on this page however it was in the form of:
my gmail username (which contains a period) followed by "+mlknckies@gmail.com" (without quotes)
ie. [usernameWhichContainsAPeroid]+mlknckies@gmail.com
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POSSIBLE CAUSE: My email both times contained addition (+) and period (.) characters which may not be understood correctly by the signup script. My wild stab in the dark would be that the addition character is being translated into a space via some sort of urldecode function.
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"Your new account has been created, and an email has been sent with an activation code to the email address you provided. Check out the lastest headlines while you wait for your email! "
I have waited about half an hour and have checked my spam directory every time (even though Gmail is yet to ever send a registration email to my spam folder). I believe this has happened to me at least twice now, although I cant be sure about the first instance as my memory of it is a bit foggy. I suspect this may have also been why I've never had an account at your site, but I can't be certain.
I can not provide my email address on this page however it was in the form of:
my gmail username (which contains a period) followed by "+mlknckies@gmail.com" (without quotes)
ie. [usernameWhichContainsAPeroid]+mlknckies@gmail.com
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POSSIBLE CAUSE: My email both times contained addition (+) and period (.) characters which may not be understood correctly by the signup script. My wild stab in the dark would be that the addition character is being translated into a space via some sort of urldecode function.
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Inappropriate?Update... I just received the "You or someone you know entered a request for an account at MilkandCookies.com a few days ago. This is a reminder email, please use this link to activate your new account:" email. Just to double check, I did a search of "from:milkandcookies.com" in both my gmail inbox and spam box, however only this email showed up. Very strange.
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Inappropriate?That is really strange.
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Inappropriate?Yeah I posted this about 3 months ago and as you know I've long since had an account so it doesn't really concern me any more. I imagine you may be able to test what is happening by outputting a debug line in the code just before the email is sent, showing the email address that it is trying to send to and then trying to sign up using a email with a period and addition sign somewhere in the username segment, just like in my example above. If you need help testing this with an actual email I'm only to happy to assist.
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