Testing registering

[DocAElstein]

Hi Tigger, old friend

Good to have you here as well, helping me

Let us see if you get Email notification of this reply

Alan
Fuhrer

[Tigger the Killler]

Ok, so it was not too instant, but after a few minutes I got the notification in my normal gmail InBox, 10 minutes to be precise


Today, 09:58 AM
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( By the way, In my setting the notification was instant. This notification is generally regarded as bullet proof and seems to always work
https://i.postimg.cc/9QWBDcVL/r-Tigg...bscription.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/sgw4Sbgs/s-Tigg...bscription.jpg )

Excel, Access, PowerPoint and Word VBA Macro Automation Help excelfox@excelfox.com über gator4079.hostgator.com
10:08 (vor 1 Minute)
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So all appears currently OK with my account so far

[DocAElstein]

I jumped too eagerly and quickly to conclusions

After rechecking many Email accounts (InBoxes and spam folders), I come to the conclusion that I jumped too eagerly and quickly to conclusions…
It now seems that, (with just the exception of German Telekom freemail, ( t-online.de) ), all the Email providers I tried received the Email with the link to activate the account. Further more, because I in my ignorance I ignored it ( thinking the Email never came), another one with a new link to do the same account activation came two days later!

I have edited posts accordingly

I need to be more careful on noting the times involved in order to get a fee for the time it might take, so here is some more experiments…

This will test a couple of things.
_ Because I changed from the gmx net account, I assume it is now available for a new account registration??-.
_ I will make a new registration, and try to time careful how long things take, in particular how long before the confirmation Email with the activation link takes….

Here we go
_ I have a browser tab open ready to get the gmx net
https://i.postimg.cc/sX8NGMmQ/gmx-net-up-and-ready.jpg
_ Registering at time 10 04 goes OK
https://i.postimg.cc/0Qr4NYY1/Register-10-04.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/DzxDFjbc/Register-10-04.jpg
(??-so there was no problem using this Email to register )

Waiting waiting….. I will edit if I ever get the Email


So that was gmx net
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Another Email provider that I initially mistakenly thought I never got the Email, was Outlook
But this time all went well and the confirmation came in Junk mail almost immediately ???
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https://i.postimg.cc/TYB1RxDt/b-Outl...r-11-47-OK.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/mrsrHSVM/c-Outl...unk-folder.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/Qd5tCzgh/d-Outlook-2-Bingo.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/wT138M7t/e-Outlook-2-Bingo.jpg
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Hmm

[Andreas Killer]

....Tigger the god dammed mother fucker Killer

Be careful what you wish for, you never know if a real Killer might be looking over your shoulder, right now.
A few insights from my side of what happened.

I registered with my default mail andreas(dot)killer(at)gmx(dot)net and never got the activation mail.

Then I changed the mail in ExcelFox to my gmail address and never got the activation mail.
I changed the mail back to gmx and we talked about the behavior via PM...

Days later, I saw that I had received an activation email:
Excel, Access, PowerPoint and Word VBA Macro Automation Help
Subject: Action Required to Activate Membership for Excel, Access, PowerPoint and Word VBA Macro Automation Help

I tried to click the link inside, invalid. Very strange, so I thought I'd try again.

I changed the mail to gmail, clicked "Save Changes", Excelfox told me the activation mail is send.
I changed the mail back to gmx, clicked "Save Changes", Excelfox told me the activation mail is send.

But nothing happens, no activation mail in my Inbox nor SPAM folders.

Days later I received the activation email! Clicked the link inside, bingo, I'm here.

I also received the activation mail in my Gmail account, same delay but one day before gmx and they ended up in the SPAM folder.

Registering here is very tricky. I think the mail hosts on the network catch the email because it looks suspicious.
I would try to change the sender name to "ExcelFox Forum" and a shorter meaningful subject like "Your login details", maybe that helps.

Andreas.

[DocAElstein]

Hi,
Yep its a bit tricky and erratic – but as per my last post on this one above , I also noticed later that I had some confirmation Emails with the activation link in it, some that I had previously missed. I think in those cases on that day they just happened to come a bit slow. Because of that I jumped to a few wrong conclusions. The registering is not good and easy, but it is not as bad as I first concluded.
I almost contacted you again per Email to tell you about my change of conclusions, but figured you were a bit pissed off with it all for a while.


So by some hap hazard back and forth you are here with the User name and gmx net Email you wanted. Interesting as gmx net is one of only 2 accounts I can’t seem to register an account with yet: Currently I am only not getting no joy trying to register with
xxxxxx@gmx.net ( note I have no problem with xxxxx@gmx.de )
and
xxxxxx@t-online.de
If I had to put money on it, I would say that getting anywhere with xxxxxx@t-online.de is unlikely, as I was experiencing problems for some time with that at other forums. I will take a guess that maybe a 50 50 chance I will or won’t get anywhere with gmx net


But I do not want to jump to any conclusions again too quickly. I want to leave it, and move on with other things. I will keep monitoring, but like everything here at the moment, at a snail’s pace. That is just the way it has to be, for various reasons it suits for me to be taking over and getting a good control of this place very very slowly.

( You could also add your Email as your home page.
, and If you have the time sometime, you could tell us, or me at any rate, how you get that vCard thing,
https://i.postimg.cc/SsMyCDGs/Andreas-Killer-v-Card.jpg , Andreas Killer vCard.JPG
You have that here and also at excelforum.com , and I have not figured how to do that. But it is not so important. )


Welcome here fully finally. Do what you want, within reason, we are all adults here, or hopefully, no over zealous Moderators and things, but for a while, don’t expect much to be going on or you getting much response.
The place will grow, slowly and healthily, if all goes to plan…
Alan