I am running ubb classic 6.7.1. I have spent 30 minutes searching these classic forums on this issue and I can't believe that there are not more posts complaining about this problem! Here is the deal. I have 150+ people signing up daily for my boards and I am guessing that 20%+ of them are not ever getting the password via email because of their isp's or spam filters! Add that up and I am losing 900+ people per month that wanted to participate on our boards and can't. I am sure they leave frustrated and say, "I'll never return to that site again!"
The number of emails and calls from these people desperate to post on our forums is overwhelming. I understand that I will not get access anymore to their passwords through the control panel. Fine. I can't email it to them because they won't get the email.
What are the options? This is what I am guessing.
1. Turn off the email password option during registration so they can choose their own. Is this what the majority of the other boards are doing? In a fairly high profile site will this cause more problems or solve all of them?
2. Have some sort of web log in using person's email address and something else so they can see password? I know - full of holes and how do we keep others from looking at people's passwords if they know their email address.
So what can we do? I hate turning 30+ people away each day frustrated! Please help. Sorry for sounding so dramatic. <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
