el_gallo_azul Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 I logged in for the first time in a long time yesterday. My account credentials weren't recognised, so I successfully went through the "Forgot password?" process. I set a new password consisting of 12 characters, including uppercass and lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols. Yesterday's post received a reply, so I tried to login again. My new account credentials weren't recognised, so I successfully went through the "Forgot password?" process again. Thankfully,, I am logged in at the end of that process, which means that it is possible for me to write this post. I imagine that I will try to log in again tomorrow, and I strongly suspect that these new account credentials won't be recognised, either. Any suggestions? Sometimes, I have found (on other websites) that including symbols can render a password invalid, despite apparently being accepted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petzl Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 3 hours ago, el_gallo_azul said: I logged in for the first time in a long time yesterday. My account credentials weren't recognised, so I successfully went through the "Forgot password?" process. I set a new password consisting of 12 characters, including uppercass and lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols. Yesterday's post received a reply, so I tried to login again. My new account credentials weren't recognised, so I successfully went through the "Forgot password?" process again. Thankfully,, I am logged in at the end of that process, which means that it is possible for me to write this post. I imagine that I will try to log in again tomorrow, and I strongly suspect that these new account credentials won't be recognised, either. Any suggestions? Sometimes, I have found (on other websites) that including symbols can render a password invalid, despite apparently being accepted. Try leaving Symbols out of password? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
el_gallo_azul Posted June 24, 2020 Author Share Posted June 24, 2020 Yes, I am just trying exactly that. When resetting the password, the Spamcop instructions suggest using uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols, but we'll see, I've just had to reset it again (as suspected), and this time I'm using twelve uppercase and lowercase letters, and numbers, with no symbols. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
el_gallo_azul Posted June 24, 2020 Author Share Posted June 24, 2020 Hm. I think I just worked it out. On most sites, when "Signing in" to create a new user account, and entering email address, display name, and password, it is actually the email address and password that are the two login credentials. I just noticed that http://forum.spamcop.net/ uses the "Display name" as the account user name for logging in. I've been tricked into becoming used to entering email address and password over the last 5 or 10 years. <rolls eyes> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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