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task #15795: remove pending account - email to me cannot get thru forwarding service

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Mon 19 Oct 2020 09:30:31 PM UTC
   
 
Should Start On:  Mon 19 Oct 2020 12:00:00 AM UTC Should be Finished on:  Mon 19 Oct 2020 12:00:00 AM UTC
Category:  System Priority:  5 - Normal
Status:  None Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  rwp Open/Closed:  Closed
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Fri 23 Oct 2020 10:29:07 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Hi Bob,
Thank you very much for helping me set up my account - it seems to be OK.
Alan

Alan Sinclair <alan7>
Wed 21 Oct 2020 12:20:08 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Hi Alan,

I have updated your email address and activated your account.  If you
need to reset the password please use the lost password reset links on
the login page.

We are very happy to help with these things!  Thank you for submitting
a ticket.  Just for purposes of communication I want to say that after
a timeout of 3 days any unconfirmed accounts are automatically
expired.  That would have allowed you to resubmit the attempt again
with a different email address.  But...  There would have been that
expiration delay to wait through.  And you would need to know the
inner workings of the expiration.  So submitting a ticket and getting
help is better. :-)

Your account is now active.  However please note that if you are not a
member of any group and do not have any tickets associated with your
account then it will be an "idle" account and subject to idle account
removal as an anti-abuse measure.  Spammers and other malicious agents
have automated mechanisms that create thousands of accounts forcing us
to now prune those.  Please see this page for details.

https://savannah.nongnu.org/maintenance/IdleAccounts/

Note: Submitting a comment to this ticket would be sufficient to make
the account no longer idle.  Hint, hint.

Bob Proulx <rwp>
Site Administrator
Mon 19 Oct 2020 09:30:31 PM UTC, original submission:  

I tried to set up an account as alan7, Alan Sinclair, with an alumni.uwaterloo.ca email address, which uses email forwarding to my real email address.  Sending and resending the email to confirm the account does not work - the email doesn't get through (epiphany list emails from gnu do get through).  So I need to try again with my real address, but the pending account gets in the way.  So please remove the pending account so I can try again.
Alan

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