Stop constant www.ads-software.com password reset emails??

You can change your email address on your profile to something that won’t email you. That is the only way. Of course, then you won’t be able to reset your password if you forget it.

Somebody is trying to login, and obviously they think their username is “Sam”. And it may be that they have that username on their own WordPress site and are confused about the difference between this forum and their own WordPress site. It’s not uncommon, and it’s happened before.

But the bottom line is that anybody can request a password reset for any username. That’s how password resets work. You can either filter the emails, or change the email address on the account to make it not email you. Your choice.

Ahhh, that makes a lot of sense, cheers mate. I hadn’t thought of that scenario… But surely no one legimitate requests a password reset every 6-8 hours for months on end?

I gather I can’t change my user name? Or search www.ads-software.com by username to contact them? Admittedly I only use the forums occasionally, but its very helpful when I can, eg if I spoof my email I wouldn’t have known there was a response to this question … All because some numpty can’t get their logins right… Lol.

You could mark the email as Spam so that your mailing system will automatically move the mail to the spam folder. In the event that you actually forget your password and need to reset you, you can go to the spam folder and find the mail you are looking for.

Most providers auto clean-up spam folders so that’s one worry less for you.

Thanks for the suggestion mate, looks like I’m going to have to; because I can’t think of any other way around it. Just annoying to have to do that, and I use gmail so that adds to the algorhythm for all mail from WordPress to be marked as spam for everyone else with gmail. So far from ideal, but cheers anyway.

Marking them as spam won’t help much. Instead, just make a gmail filter to auto-delete them if they become a nuisance.

If you like, change your email here on the forums to have a +addon which you can to filter by. So if your email address is [email protected], then [email protected] will still go to you, but allow you to filter based on the “To” field, since it will have that +wordpress in it.

Thanks for the suggestions.

I understand and know how to prevent getting emails with spam/filters/etc. But I’m surprised that it’s considered acceptable to get three a day for months on end. I don’t believe there is a real person out there trying to reset their password three times a day for months. Essentially, the process is being abused somehow, and it should be fixed on WordPress’s end. There is no legitimate reason for someone to endlessly request password resets three times a day, so why allow it on the back end? Why not actually fix it?