I emailed Mike Chin about the problem and after working together for several days we gave up and he was nice enough to manually activate my account.
However, we would both like to know the ultimate cause of the problem. So he asked me to add this post and ask if any other forum members had similar problems or have any ideas what might be wrong.
Here's the scenario:
- - I completed the registration page and got the message that an activation email had been sent
- My ISP is Comcast
- To eliminate my computer/Outlook as the source of the problem, I only used Comcast's webmail interface to check for the activation email
- I disabled all server-side SPAM filtering in the Comcast mailbox preferences
- And still the activation email was never delivered to my mailbox
So we don't know if the problem is with phpBB, some SMTP server down the line, or with Comcast.
Anyone else have similar problems or have any ideas?