att.net, in its infinite wisdom, is blocking SIGforum emails. If you use one of these addresses (not for your public email address, which is only a display email address, but rather your email address used for registration- the one where you would receive forum notifications or confirmation emails when you request a password reset), then you are now not receiving emails.

Your best bet is to go into your profile and change that email address (again, not your Display Email) and switch it to gmail or the like.

Let me know if you have questions or difficulties.

You can complain to att.net and eventually they may remove the lock (this happened once before, many years ago) but I get the impression that they just don't give a shit.

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SIGforum emails

So some people have sigforum emails, like <membername>@sigforum.com

I never knew that.

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Originally posted by radioman:

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SIGforum emails

So some people have sigforum emails, like <membername>@sigforum.com

I never knew that.

Only high profile members

I'm guessing he means that emails from the forum, like subscriptions, aren't going through to members with att/bellsouth emails in their profile.

No, you have a registration email that you used when you signed up. If that is @att.net or @bellsouth.net, forum generated, as opposed to your posted email address, will not get through.

For example, when I registered, @gmail.com was not allowed, so I used a "hard" private email address that I paid for. My public email is an @gmail.com address, but my formal forum address known to admin is different.

att.net is blocking emails which come from sigforum.

No members have a sigforum email address.

Para, does this apply to sbcglobal.net emails also?

If it falls under the att.net umbrella, yes, and it does look like att.net has gobbled up that one, too.

There are likely several more domains owned by att.net. If you've stopped receiving forum notifications, check to see if your email address is owned by AT&T. If so, do not try to reset your password. Instead, change your email address. Once again, this is not what is specified as your "Display Email" in your profile. Your Display Email address is simply that- an email address which you display for members to use to contact you. You may have the same email address specified in both your Display Email and your actual email address.

Changed. Thanks Para.

Also, if you register using one of these blocked email addresses, you will find yourself in limbo, because when you complete your registration, the forum software attempts to send an email to the address you used. Until you click on the link embedded in that email, your registration is not complete, and since you will not receive that email, you're stuck.

So, use a different email address when registering.

Again, you can thank AT&T for this bullshit.

Thanks!

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Originally posted by parabellum:
If it falls under the att.net umbrella, yes, and it does look like att.net has gobbled up that one, too.

There are likely several more domains owned by att.net...

Since AT&T email is really Yahoo Mail w/ a different GUI now (since 2017?), any chance this is really an issue resulting from a change in Yahoo Mail policy?

"For assistance forward this error to abuse_rbl@abuse-att.net"

Wow. I just looked and I've not received any recent notifications of topics I've subscribed to, the most recent was Sept 11 of this year.
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Change your email address and you'll be fine.

Are there regular blanket forum notifications that all members should receive? My forum email is twc.com thru Spectrum internet. I don't get regular notices but I generally figure no news is good news.

Thank you!
I was wondering why I haven't gotten any subscription updates since August.

Switched to a gmail.

THanks.

There are no default notifications set; only required notifications, such as confirming email on a new registration, or changing an email address on an existing account.

Done- thanks for he reminder. It was so long ago I no longer had access to that email anyway.

Thank you.
I've been dumbfounded since this started.
I finally found this thread today.

I appreciate you..

Wow. Here since 2005 and now have to change to my Gmail address from Bellsouth.