The discussion revolves around an issue with the BUG activation email not working. SoreGums reported that after signing up with GitHub, the activation email was not received, despite resending it multiple times. However, when SoreGums reset the password, it worked immediately.
SoreGums later discovered that the issue was due to a delay in email delivery, with an 11-minute delay between the email being sent and received by the Google server.
The issue was brought to the attention of supermathie, who explained that sometimes the outgoing email may error on the first delivery attempt and succeed on the second. supermathie assured that measures will be taken to reduce the occurrence of this issue and make the email retry more aggressively.
I used GitHub to login,
Gave a different email address to the one gotten from GH.
Waited 5mins for the activation email (smashing refresh in gmail)
Clicked the button to send another activation email, smashed refresh again for a minute.
Sent an email from my other account on a different domain to the one used here on meta.
Instantly arrived.
Smashed refresh again for another 30seconds.
Came back to here to meta and clicked reset password.
Didn’t have time to click refresh in gmail.
set a password and now i can post, hence this post
Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Sometimes our outgoing email will error on the first delivery attempt to the downstream server, then succeed on the second. (You don’t see the failed attempts in the message headers, only the success).
We’ll take measures to reduce the occurrence of this and/or make it retry more aggressively.
