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The AL password mailer will send your password to your email address when requested.  It does so for a new account, or if you enter the wrong

password three times at the login screen. It is often asked over channels whether the mailer is up and running.  Most of the time the mailer is operational, and it is a problem with the individual not keeping their email up to date via the email command, or email not being received at their host.  If you are having problems, or know someone that is, please test whether the mailer is up before asking about it over channels.

If you want to test the mailer, without worrying about your password being reset, you can use the google gmail account on a web browser:

almailtest@gmail.com, password: almail8020, AL OOC account: almailtest.


Testing the mailer:

  1. Make sure your email is valid via the email command while logged onto AL.
  2. Connect to AL and enter the wrong password for your account multiple times, it will assign you a new password and automatically send this new password to your account. (Your password is stored in an encrypted fashion so that we can only ever see the first two characters)
  3. Check to see if the email was received.  For many hosts, this will be a matter of seconds, but if you consistently get emails very late, you might want to wait a reasonable amount of time.
  4. If the email did not get sent, ask someone else to confirm that the mailer is down, or use another email address.  For example, if AOL is not working, create a hotmail account and try to get an email there. If the mailer does go down it will usually be because there was a major system crash either for the AL server or somewhere on the mail delivery route.  Another reason would be that the server was moved, and the settings have not been updated. It is very important to keep your email address up to date for the mailer to work.  If you change the email address you are using, please update your email on AL as well, it will save us time and headaches verifying that you really are who you are claiming to be.


AOL: AOL blocks AL's mailing address so you cannot get the email with your password, but if you add "staff@accursed-lands.com" to your address book you can now get emails from AL.

See also: email

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