Ryan,

Also, I think it would be better to turn email confirmation back on before the 
spam bots discover this. 

I don't know a way to manually confirm email addresses from the admin front 
end, but what I have done in the past was run this mysql query on the db:
 > update user set user_email_authenticated='20130207111111' where 
 > user_name='Theusername';


Regards,
Alisak.

Alisak Sanavongsay  Digital Assets Programmer  http://library.ucmerced.edu  
209.201.9073  [email protected]



On Feb 7, 2013, at 9:00 AM, Shaun Ellis <[email protected]> wrote:

> Ryan,
> Have you checked the mailserver logs?  That might tell you if certain ISPs 
> are rejecting the messages, and may give a reason.
> 
> Sometimes ISPs will reject a message if the sender's domain doesn't match the 
> domain it's coming from.  You can set up your mail server to authenticate 
> with and use Gmail's SMTP servers to send mail.  This "how-to" gives an 
> example of how to do it with msmtp:
> 
> http://www.absolutelytech.com/2010/07/17/howto-configure-msmtp-to-work-with-gmail-on-linux/
> 
> -Shaun
> 
> On 2/6/13 8:23 PM, Wick, Ryan wrote:
>> Yes, several people don't seem to even get the messages in their spam or 
>> junk folders. And I don't see a way I can say "confirm this user's email 
>> anyway".
>> 
>> For now, I've disabled email confirmation on the wiki. This won't help if 
>> you need to reset your password (so still email me your account info and I 
>> can take care of it) but should let others get started easier. Also you can 
>> try a new account with a different email address, such as Gmail.
>> 
>> Hope this helps.
>> 
>> Ryan
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
>> Alisak Sanavongsay
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 4:43 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Editing Code4lib Wiki
>> 
>> Perhaps the spam filters killed the messages? When I checked the headers, 
>> I'm seeing X-Spam-score of 9 or 10 from the confirmation emails 
>> ([email protected]) and password reset emails ([email protected]). I 
>> received both messages fine, and they didn't land in my spam/junk folder. 
>> Perhaps other people might have had those messages land in their spam/junk 
>> folders? Assuming the messages left the oregonstate.edu server.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Alisak.
>> 
>> Alisak Sanavongsay  Digital Assets Programmer  http://library.ucmerced.edu 
>>  209.201.9073  [email protected]
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Feb 6, 2013, at 4:27 PM, "Wick, Ryan" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Yeah it should be sending an email, showing as coming from 
>>> [email protected]  but a few people aren't getting them.
>>> 
>>> Send me your account name (here or the above gmail) and I can reset your 
>>> password manually.
>>> 
>>> Ryan
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
>>> Robert Haschart
>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 2:25 PM
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Subject: [CODE4LIB] Editing Code4lib Wiki
>>> 
>>> I have tried editing the Code4lib wiki several times, but keep getting a 
>>> you have not confirmed your e-mail address message.
>>> I then go to the Preferences page and try to do so.  I am told that a 
>>> confirmation code is being mailed to me, but no mail ever seems to arrive.
>>> 
>>> Does anybody have any suggestions?
>>> 
>>> -Bob Haschart
>>> 
> 

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