by Mailstop101 » Sat Sep 01, 2007 10:17 am
I tried to reset my password on another forum yesterday, with the verification emails going through a spamgourmet address. I saw nothing in my real email account after several minutes, so I tried again. Tried again 4 times before I gave up, but never received anything in my inbox.
I just checked, and it seems the messages finally arrived about 10 hours later. While Spamgourmet showed them as being forwarded almost instantly in the "sent" count, I didn't get anything before I went to bed last night.
One of the messages also got "returned to sender"'d by the forum's mailbot. When I click on the link in one of the verification emails that finally arrived, I am told my email address is invalid, so I need to submit a new one.
I'm not sure what happened there. Maybe the forum has some software that concludes you must have given it a bogus address, if you don't act on a password reset email in a certain timeframe.
It is clear that spamgourmet sometimes takes a LONG time to forward emails, although it says it has forwarded them almost immediately. What's double-weird is that earlier yesterday, I had received a few other emails forwarded through another spamgourmet address.
Just now, I tried getting the other forum to send my login details to the spamgourmet address once again. This time, it worked almost instantly. Go figure.