Testing registering

**DocAElstein** · 08-11-2025, 03:56 PM

Testing registering

Someone is having difficulty registering so I am trying it out in this Thread. The problem seems to be that he never receives the confirmation Email with the link to activate his account.

So let me try registering a few times.

Using this gmail address:
excelxxxxxxxxxxxxx@gmail.com ( the x’s are covering the real address )

I went through the typical steps
https://i.postimg.cc/jdGYQGRd/a-Register.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/dVrPW40R/b-Comp...egistering.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/CLZV8FTQ/c-Registered.jpg

So far so good.

I got the Email, but it landed in my Spam folder. For some reason that seems to be a typical occurrence
https://i.postimg.cc/RhY5YYfd/d-Arri...pam-Folder.jpg

Never the less, I try the activation link
https://i.postimg.cc/c1kS6vj3/e-Activate-Link.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/Xqq6QWZX/e-Activate-Link.jpg

It appears to have worked.
https://i.postimg.cc/63YNrqpD/f-Regi...n-Complete.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/8CdGCtQk/h-Doc-...est-member.jpg

( By the way the following message is computer generated. It is not from me
https://i.postimg.cc/sXVrG7sY/g-Sam-Welcome.jpg

)

OK, so far so good with gmail. It worked, ( but note confirmation Email with the link to activate the account landed in spam folder
Let me try some other free Email providers in the next posts …….

**DocAElstein** · 08-11-2025, 04:07 PM

Note: I did all theses on Monday 11 August, and it looks like in most cases I jumped to the wrong conclusion, since almost all worked but some took some time

A_Killer
A_Killer
German Telekom freemail
xxxxxx@t-online.de

I never got the confirmation Email with the link to activate the account 

Albert Killer
GMex de
xxxxx@gmx.de

I never got the confirmation Email with the link to activate the account (
Edit a few days later. I missed that the Email did arrive on Monday, and another on the Wednesday
https://i.postimg.cc/PrpZ9s5Q/gmx-de...-Wednesday.jpg
I tried clicking on the first one from Monday,
https://i.postimg.cc/fWgm8TDb/Try-cl...-first-one.jpg
, but it failed but gave me the chance to resend, which I did
https://i.postimg.cc/Wztrsx6j/The-fi...-to-resend.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/NMdmqQXp/The-fi...-to-resend.jpg
The new Email with new activation link came very quickly,
https://i.postimg.cc/8c3vcwtv/Got-ne...de-quickly.jpg
, and Bingo gmx de was in
https://i.postimg.cc/504LRXXX/Bingo-gmx-de.jpg

A__Killer
Freenet de
xxxxxx@freenet.de

All worked  Also the confirmation Email with the link to activate the account arrived in the normal in box
https://i.postimg.cc/zBfYzhCV/w-freenet-All-is-well.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/yYR48sZX/w-free...mal-in-box.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/nzY8GknR/w-freenet-All-is-well.jpg

A___Killer
xxxxx@outlook.de

I never got the confirmation Email with the link to activate the account

Edit a few days later. It did work late, and I missed it. In fact I got also another Email with as new activation link a couple of days later.
https://i.postimg.cc/Pxhw9PFg/Outloo...-Wednesday.jpg
Both were in junk mail, so I did a no junk button,
https://i.postimg.cc/MpNjnRjJ/Outloo...unk-button.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/TYkbXBdw/Bingo-Outlook.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/kgBbMwGy/Outlook-no-junk.jpg
, and clicked on one of the activation links , and Bingo Outlook
https://i.postimg.cc/TYkbXBdw/Bingo-Outlook.jpg

AlanKiller
xxxx@@web.de

I never got the confirmation Email with the link to activate the account (
Edit correction – it came a bit later, all OK

https://i.postimg.cc/zvLd0HHs/web-de-came-later.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/SQ51jdwk/web-de-came-later.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/Zn1wgYrC/web-de-came-later.jpg

AlbertModKiller
xxxxxxx@yahoo.com

All worked  Also the confirmation Email with the link to activate the account arrived in the normal in box
https://i.postimg.cc/J0sxgcw1/yahoo-worked.jpg

A_____Killer
xxxxx@proton.me

I never got the confirmation Email with the link to activate the account 

Edit A few days later
It came fairly late, in fact I missed it and a second almost identical ** Email was sent a couple of days later, https://i.postimg.cc/xdxtdZ1t/proton...irmation-S.jpg

**Note the activation link is different
https://i.postimg.cc/4xG82t0b/proton...ion-Monday.jpg
http://www.excelfox.com/forum/regist...c5a03d51f32e0e

https://i.postimg.cc/pdXsRvRm/proton...n-Mittwoch.jpg
http://www.excelfox.com/forum/regist...ed969c92a167d8

I tried the Wednesday link and Bingo:
https://i.postimg.cc/RZnpVHs2/A-Killer-ATproton-me.jpg
( It never indicated immediately after that, that I was the newest member )

xxxxxxx@mail.de
All worked  Also the confirmation Email with the link to activate the account arrived in the normal in box

https://i.postimg.cc/JhjxJcJg/mail-de-OK.jpg
[img]https://i.postimg.cc/8FPLgvZB/mail-de-OK.jpg[/img]

**DocAElstein** · 08-12-2025, 11:13 AM

Later

to be filled in later with summary list of working and non working Email providers - for the time being see the last post above

**AliKiller** · 08-12-2025, 12:04 PM

Testing Email Notifications
To subscribed Threads

Let's take a "Killer" account that worked on the registration, - that is to say one where the confirmation Email with the link to activate the account arrived
xxxxxxx@mail.de
I am using this logged in account here and now to make this post. The act of doing this should according to the default settings mean that the account is thereafter subscribed to this Thread and will get an Email notification for further replies made to the thread by anyone else

So….. we will see

**DocAElstein** · 08-12-2025, 12:06 PM

Making a reply to see if/ what notifications are recieved.....

**AliKiller** · 08-12-2025, 12:24 PM

So The reply arrived

It was not immediate, - it took a few minutes
https://i.postimg.cc/kGhCzS4q/mail-d...tification.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/pV0PpwB4/mail-d...tification.jpg

mail de Got EMail notification.JPG mail de Got EMail notification.jpg

**DocAElstein** · 08-12-2025, 03:42 PM

What I will / did do now, is change the Email address to a new one of a provider that did not work on the registration, for example I will use
xxxxxx@t-online.de
(Note: I cannot use the one I tried before, because: even though the confirmation mail with the activation link did not arrive, never the less , account name, and Email address are registered and therefore not available to be used)

OK I did that.
I made a new interesting discovery. After doing this successfully, I then was no longer able to post …. I hit the You seem to have registered your name but haven't confirmed… ……………
Possibly also I saw for a split second a pop up telling me that because I had changed my Email, a new confirmation was sent with an activation link
Interesting:

So:
I will change it again, but this time to a provider that did work on the registration, for example I will use a new
xxxxxx@freenet.de
I did that, got the You seem to have registered your name but haven't confirmed… …………… , also I saw for a split second a pop up telling me that because I had changed my Email, a new confirmation was sent with an activation link. I got that Email, clicked on the link and all was well.

( Incidentally just for the record as I am getting a bit in a muddle, User AliKiller was originally xxxx@mail.de

**DocAElstein** · 08-12-2025, 08:55 PM

Workaround to keep registered name ( with completed full registration )
after a fail to get the confirmation mail containing the activation link to complete the full registration

Following on from the last post, it seems that we have stumbled over a reasonable workaround to the above issue, which was a major reason for starting this Thread.

Recap
For reasons not too clear currently, during the registering of a new account, the Email confirmation, (containing a link that must be clicked on tom activate the account), is sometimes not arriving,
An option to resend does not appear to be available, ( and even if it did, it likely would not be much use anyway, since the problem appears to be that certain Email providers may be blocking Emails from excelfox.com ).

This introduces other problems , because …..
_the User appears never the less to be registered, but cannot do things such as replying to a Thread or posting a new Thread.
(The following warning is an indication of this problem
https://i.postimg.cc/5yj0BVsM/You-se...r-name-but.jpg

)

_ so the other problems are that both the user name and the Email are effectively registered by excelfox.com, so cannot be used again

Hmm…….

Now, I like to encourage as much real Human stuff generally, and less Anonymity as possible, so I am unhappy that if a user chooses to use the name / email that he/she is known by, but may then gets caught in this awkward situation, as has happened, which sparked off this Thread

So, here is a walkthrough workaround example, starting with a reproduction of what happened

Walkthrough Workaround Part 1, working up to the problem. Reproducing the problem
I have a name and Email address at provider gmx, so an Email address of the sort
xxxxxx@gmx.net
https://i.postimg.cc/FsJG59kf/Archib...er-gmx-net.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/3x513P2t/Archib...er-gmx-net.jpg

I wish to use the same name as my User name, and use that xxxxxx@gmx.net account to register

I try.

I get this far
https://i.postimg.cc/5yj0BVsM/You-se...r-name-but.jpg

I never get the confirmation Email in either the normal InBox or the Spam Folder at the gmx account

Oh Bollox!

I am stuck

***Before starting the workaround below, you need the following: An Email account at another provider, preferably one which you are familiar, but importantly
_ it must allow for sending on Emails to another account, and
_ it must be one known currently not to get hung at the confirmation stage: See here for the up to date list of Email providers that seem to get Email notifications from excelfox

( For this demo I registered a freenet account
https://i.postimg.cc/zXmdtZbJ/a-Free...ld-knaller.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/c1t9B4J9/b-Free...ld-knaller.jpg
, and at the same time set up the sending on to the gmx.net account
https://i.postimg.cc/qRSmHW1x/c-Free...ld-knaller.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/BvhYMjDy/03-fre...instellung.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/cHrDjdBJ/d-Free...ld-knaller.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/vm82rr1f/e-Free...ld-knaller.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/dVjSZH0J/02-fre...terleitung.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/Vk8V6Qm7/f-Free...ld-knaller.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/sDSLsDdQ/01-fre...terleitung.jpg )

Walkthrough Workaround Part 2, The workaround
Despite the hung situation, I log in anyway
https://i.postimg.cc/Gt6BxnbV/Archib...-Logged-in.jpg
, which seems to be a valid action, since then I am logged in
https://i.postimg.cc/D0SJGw31/Archib...-Logged-in.jpg
,( but note a quirk, - I am also shown as an active user
https://i.postimg.cc/RFsJqnyM/Archib...wst-member.jpg
, but I am not shown at anytime after registering as a latest member. Possibly this quirk is what helps have this workaround… )

Now go into your settings and change the Email address to the other account that you have***
https://i.postimg.cc/DyK40FY4/b-Email-change.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/jqfJRCvr/a-Email-change.jpg

For a split second you may notice a pop up telling you of the need to re activate and that an Email has been sent for that purpose.

Now take a look at the inbox of both your accounts, the original gmx account, and the other one ( the one that you registered to help get over the problem with this workaround ***)
https://i.postimg.cc/63k2dNWS/c-Email-change-Bingo.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/C1BnBKgk/d-Email-change-Bingo.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/bvF2wtKq/e-Email-change-Bingo.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/VvXSgH5N/f-Email-change-Bingo.jpg

So from this point on you can ignore the other account – it is simply like a back up extra storage of Emails from excelfox.com
From this point on you can simply use your gmx account. For example to click on the activation link
After which, Bingo, all is well. You are registered with your original name and Email notifications arrive at you gmx account
https://i.postimg.cc/Zqqdmcsf/h-Email-change-Bingo.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/bwgt4MgD/j-Email-change-Bingo.jpg

( Note that you could for example put your main Email as your home page as another way to give others a more durect way to your Email https://i.postimg.cc/dVPBnrM1/Edit-p...real-EMail.jpg )

A last few thoughts for now
Hopefully at a later we will be able to get the blocking by some Email providers removed. Then the Email can be changed back to the original main account, if wished - but that is personal choice: The extra account is a convenient way to keep a copy of all Emails from excelfox, allowing you to remove them from cluttering up your main account. I personally tend to use this method of having a back up, and allowing me to keep my main Emails InBoxes cleaner, a lot anyway.
( I never used it previously for excelfox, but I will be adding it now, since the account I originally registered with xxxx@t-online.de stopped working for Email notifications some time ago. I will check that out later and perhaps add a post or create a new Thread for a workaround when/if your Email notifications suddenly stop working. This will be a short term workaround hopefully: As time goes on I will hopefully get confident in getting the blocks removed fairly quickly as and when they may suddenly occur.

**DocAElstein** · 08-13-2025, 10:14 PM

Tigger the god dammed mother fucker Killer
Aka a quick check again at a gmail registering

A user has problems registering an account with gmail.
This is bad news , since if people can't even register with gmail, then even the spammers can't register, since they seem to almost all use gmail.

So, I have an old friend, that started at xxxx@t-online .de, and then got somehow migrated into gmail, god only knows how, and he has been banned or tagged as a rogue more times than me and andy put together from more places than I can remember.

But he seems to still have a gmail account: I had to find his log in details on a piece of old toilet paper, (on the unused side of it thankfully)
https://i.postimg.cc/kXvCSwNc/Tigger...ears-later.jpg

Let me see if I can get him registered at excelfox, that is to say get him a excelfox user account including full activation to allow him to contribut6e, post replies etc.…..
So…
Same procedure as every time
https://i.postimg.cc/brQh397q/Tigger-registering.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/7YkDbjzh/Tiggr-registering.jpg
Going well so far, ( Tigger or the forum software is flagged as unsicher, sporadically in places,, but then in this day and age I would trust no one or any software that claimed not to be
https://i.postimg.cc/NGTBsQ5Z/Tigger-is-unsicher.jpg )

It seems initially to have worked and Tigger is waiting for an Email at the gmail account containing a link to activate the excelfox user account
https://i.postimg.cc/8c8GR0ny/Tigger-registering.jpg

The Email arrived, ( in his spam folder )
https://i.postimg.cc/Jh2Mnn3C/Tigger-got-it-in-sapm.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/C1nYfgJB/Tigger-got-it-in-sapm.jpg
The activation link can be used form there, in the spam folder, but it may be helpful in the long run if people registering use the button for no Spam,
https://i.postimg.cc/DzZ7nsXc/Tigger...-Kein-Spam.jpg
, since perhaps at some point the block / warning may then be taken away by gmail, but also , hitting the not spam button should mean that the finally registered user will get further Email notifications normally
https://i.postimg.cc/FHh9CwF8/Tigger...-Kein-Spam.jpg

After clicking on the activation link, it appears to have worked
https://i.postimg.cc/02Ykf9v7/Tigger-is-here.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/5Nd9L6hx/Tigger-is-here.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/HkKHNy88/p-Tigger-is-here.jpg

Fazit / Conclusiones
Well, the wonderful thing about Tigger, as the Disney song goes,
_ the wonderful thing about Tiggers,
_ is Tigger's a wonderful thing,
_ and there is nothing that Tigger can't do with a SchlappenBier und eine Kit Kat in his belly

https://i.postimg.cc/PxJcCQXS/Tigger-the-Killer.jpg

My best guess for now is that gmail is still mostly working for a registration, most likely the confirmation with the link to activate will arrive in a spam folder. Perhaps gmail occasionally does not work, as a user has found, but there should be a way to work around that with another email provider in most cases.

Tigger will try to post a reply in the next post, and we will take it further from there….

( Edit a few days later… I found a spare gmail account, and one of my forum incognito characters that I appear to have forgot to register here at excelfox, Bill Jelly, a sort of parody to that mrexcel.com chap Bill Jelen ..
So I gave it a quick go at a register … It went well. The important confirmation Email with the activation link took just one minute to arrive, ( in the spam folder)
https://i.postimg.cc/t4smbLh0/Bill-J...ster-17-48.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/76kBghjD/Bill-J...ster-17-48.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/HL5ZcXZB/Bill-J...m-at-17-49.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/HsZPfp84/Bingo-...y-Aug-2025.jpg )

Ref https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a65vNg-O80M

**Tigger the Killler** · 08-14-2025, 12:22 PM

Boing Boing, … posting to test Email notifications

( To Explain: Default settings after registration are that you are automatically subscribed to the Thread that you posted in, which in turn amongst other things means that you should get an Email notification of any further replies to that Thread, so Alan will reply in the next post, then I, bouncing Tigger will take a look at my gmail and see what happens )

https://i.postimg.cc/rpgfFvxB/q-Tigg...ption-Mode.jpg

q Tigger Default Settings --- General Settings --- Default Thread Subscription Mode.jpg