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Post by Chain_Reaction » February 22nd, 2019, 6:05 pm

It has come to my attention that Microsoft has banned our email server because apparently some users were marking our activation or thread subscription emails as SPAM. Despite my best efforts, they don't seem to be willing to unblock it thus I have banned these email accounts from being used here.

If you have registered here with any @outlook, @live or @hotmail account and are not receiving your activation email, please use the contact us link in the footer to contact me with the email and username you used and I will manually activate it. Note if you enter the Microsoft email in the respond to field I will be unable to respond due to the ban.

If you have already registered with these and would like to receive emails about mod updates, new PM's, thread replies and such, I'd recommend changing your email address to a non Microsoft email in your User CP.

I will continue to try to get unblocked but at this point it seems to be like moving mountains.

As an aside, I wanted to note Wikispaces officially ended services on Feb 1st. While our registration process still gives the note about emailing to convert your account, I will no longer be able to do this. The note will be removed shortly. I plan to allow registration with inactive usernames if they have 0 posts as soon as I have time to modify the scripting but any accounts with posts are now inaccessible for good.

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Post by Chain_Reaction » February 27th, 2019, 12:06 am

A user contacted me with a registration email they got from signing up with Wikispaces. I am unaware if Wikispaces sent these emails for newer users after free wiki's were discontinued but if you have one that notes your username in it, you can screenshot and submit that and I'll accept it for account conversion.

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Post by Chain_Reaction » March 16th, 2019, 2:55 am

I have finally gotten our email server unblocked from Microsoft and I have re-enabled registration with Microsoft email addresses. I have been responding to contact emails I have gotten since the ban and was unable to respond to and I am resending activation emails to those affected. Please stop marking emails from here as spam as it is a huge headache for me to fight with a corporation to be unblocked. If you don't want the emails unsubscribe from them in your User CP.

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Post by fluttereyes » October 15th, 2019, 10:50 am

I got an activation email this morning, I'd forgotten my password so needed a reset, came through on hotmail no problem and right away

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Post by Chain_Reaction » October 16th, 2019, 7:23 am

fluttereyes wrote:
October 15th, 2019, 10:50 am
I got an activation email this morning, I'd forgotten my password so needed a reset, came through on hotmail no problem and right away
Yes, this issue was resolved in March. :)

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Post by Chain_Reaction » March 29th, 2020, 7:20 am

Just wanted to note that, what seems like every year around the same time, we are once again banned from sending email to Microsoft servers. I have submitted a request to remove this block and am awaiting a response.

If you are waiting for an activation email to a Microsoft address, please use the Contact Us option below to let me know the email address you signed up with and I will manually approve the registration for now. If you have already contacted me, your account should be active. I have no way to respond to the contact email given the block. Otherwise please use another email provider to register accounts until this is resolved.

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Post by Chain_Reaction » April 6th, 2020, 12:25 am

This issue has been resolved once again and you should be able to use Microsoft email's without issue. In addition I've pushed activation email's to those who didn't get them.

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