I would probably go complaining to the other side. Why yahoo does not accept mails from here? If this board wrote "an e-mail has been sent to your e-mail address", then it probably sent it, but yahoo did not accept it.

Disclaimer: I did not try whether this is true or not. I do not use yahoo.

Mirek

I've been using Yahoo for several years, and I've never seen it reject an e-mail from anywhere. It DOES have excellent spam filters which will reroute suspect e-mails to a spambox, but it has never rejected or deleted an e-mail.

This isn't the first time, on the other hand, I've run across activation policies which refuse to accept free e-mail addresses (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc.) for security reasons. But it's the first time they've failed to notify the registrant as to what's going on.

TheKeeper

A previous thread on the same subject (Yahoo and non-delivery of confirmation e-mails): Re: Getting latest CVS builds

So - what is it?

Just for the record.
I registered in this board using a yahoo account and everything worked properly (I got the registration email).
This was on september '03 and with a yahoo.es account.

Yes, thank you MiniMax. I had previously read the thread; however, nothing seemed to have been resolved there, so I thought I'd open a new one -- a second log tossed on the fire, as it were.

Trying to collect some facts.....

iampiti reports that .....@yahoo.es worked fine in 2003.
The_Keeper reports that ....@yahoo.com is blocked.
The_Keeper reports that ....@richter.org is fine.
The_Keeper reports that ....@hotmail.com is fine.

The addresses I originally tried were all @yahoo.com, all unsuccessful. The address that eventually worked for me was @richter.org.

I have a Hotmail account as well, which I didn't try. I'll do so now and report back.

My @hotmail.com address worked. Hmm....

Had same problem with my hotmail e-mail. Tried using a private e-mail today, still waiting for e-mail.

I never did try a Yahoo email but that's because I don't use it that much. I have a @mail.com account which has several other account ends like @techie.com. Seems to work for me.

No luck with my private e-mail account. It has to be a probelm with this site, I've never encountered any problems with my private or hotmail account trashing an e-mail. My spam filters are completely disabled. I can't resubmit them because the site says the the e-mails accounts are already registered but I can't log on because they aren't activated. What the hell am I supposed to do, grab every free e-mail service I can find and bombard this site with addresses until it decides to let one through? Are the people who run this site even aware that the problem exists?

just post your username and I will activate it .

I was wondering...
How about reediting register confirmation email in a way yahoo will accept it?

User name: Netskimmer.

P.S. DOSBox is an incredible program and I think all who were involved with creating it and are involved with improving it should be commended.

Netskimmer is active. Odd that your email didn't work.

Thanks for activating me Qbix. I’m off to the game/apps forum.

P.S. Qbix, I like your avatar.

Sorry for the double post but I wanted to tell Qbix that I tried a different e-mail under the username Netskimmer1 when this one didn’t work. Since this one is active there’s no need to leave that one stuck in your system ever-awaiting verification.

I seem to have the same problem with Hotmail.

I registered under ESPNSTI and ESPN_STI using two different hotmail email addresses.

The second time I made sure I had junk email filtering set to default, automatic deletion of junk email off and I added www.vogons.org to the safe list before registering, but it still didn't work.

Can't say I've had this problem with any other forum / company / person before with hotmail.

Could you be so kind as to activate ESPNSTI (and delete ESPN_STI) please? 😁

Thanks.

Bumpage