verifying email

[dennisthemenace]

ted just clicked the link in the email that was sent to verify my email and its come up as page cannot be found ? is there still work in progress ? Cheers
Denny

[HarryW]

Worked for me, I take it this is part of the new members cleansing process for PH

H

[pies]

Just tested mine seems ok

[dennisthemenace]

Thanks chaps just going to give it another go

[dennisthemenace]

No luck still unable to get it i click on the link in the eamail and a new page opens and says this page cannot be displayed

[PetrolTed]

Dennis, please could you forward the email to me so I can check it out.

Thanks,
Ted

[John A]

Ted

I can't even get that far. I've clicked the link to confirm my email address 3 times in the last 3 days. Each time I get the message that an email has been sent to "*******@******.com" but I have not yet received one.

Is it me....?

[PetrolTed]

John,

I've just sent you a mail. Please let me know if you get it.

Thanks,
Ted

[pies]

mines perfect

[tvradict]

Ted, I had to Verify my e-mail address on Thursday or Friday. But you've been sending newsletters to it for months! What the hell is going on there then?

[dennisthemenace]

PetrolTed said: Dennis, please could you forward the email to me so I can check it out.

Thanks,
Ted

Ted just forwarded it to you


>> Edited by dennisthemenace on Saturday 21st December 22:33

[PetrolTed]

Denny,

Do you read your mail within a web browser or in a mail client such as Lycos?

Cheers,
Ted

[dennisthemenace]

I use lycos , but i could set up my freeserve account instead . Is that the problem ?

[PetrolTed]

No, no need (you're verified now anyway), I was just trying to work out what it was that caused you the problem (I need to fix it as it's happening to other people too).

[DennisTheMenace]

Doh ! just changed over to the freeserve account i think i will stick with the freeserve one now as i have had a few problems with lycos sorry for messing you about ted

[PetrolTed]

Ok, here's one for you webheads.

When I send a mail to Lycos which contains the URL www.pistonheads.com it changes the link to www.pistonVOIDs.com. I presume it's some sort of protection against their web pages being compromised.

It doesn't look very good to send someone the IP address of the site or a different URL. Any ideas?

[manek]

I just had my emaila ddress verified too but I've been sending emails from here for ages. Nothing's changed at my end (I use Outlook). Odd...

[PetrolTed]

It's tied up with verifying memberships as being genuine rather than being directly related to the newsletters.

[miniman]

Doesn't the link that we click just say "Click Here" - i.e. the user doesn't see the actual URL the link is going to, thus you could use the IP address without it being obvious??

Alternatively might it be possible to "register" yourself with Lycos somehow so this doesn't happen? Can't understand why they do it, to be honest.

[PetrolTed]

I've worked out a solution. Most people accept HTML emails so I'll hide the IP address within that. Daft bit of meddling by Lycos though.