1andyf88
Thanks Ryan. I did indeed, after receiving the email, change the account password and my user name,.I have also changed my email password. I however do not have an open email thread with anyone. I did not initiate a change password request. This email just showed up in my mailbox. At any rate, I can't complain about Cakewalk fast response to this, both on the way hone and here in the forum. We shall see if the above changes solve the problem.
Thanks. I've asked our rep to reach out to clear up the confusion. I can definitely confirm the password reset email was triggered by us though, so that's a relief. I'm sorry for any alarm as a result!
John
It was me I think that brought it to your attention. I am totally happy now with your response. I don't use a log in manually. I have my browser set to automatically to log me in. Rarely do I log in myself. I'm going to watch this a little closer and try to figure out what conditions cause an email to be sent. What might be a problem is a delay in logging in and the email being sent. Though I can't be sure of this at the present time. It seems that these emails are sent at odd times. The funny thing is I have been on these forums very shortly after they were implemented. I was on the newsgroup and was reluctant to come here. That said, I can't recall ever seeing this happen before.
I do hope you understand my concern about this as there is so much talk about all sorts of nasty things going on lately. I can say I am very pleased that you posted here and shed some light on this. I really thank you for that.
Yeah, the emails aren't initiated by the forum software but rather by our Cakewalk account management. When we switched the forum over to Cakewalk accounts is probably when these emails started getting triggered. Round 1 would automatically reset the password, which was obviously at the dismay of many users, so we updated the process to require action from the account owner's email address before preemptively resetting passwords.
bvideo
This sounds exactly like someone clicked the "forgot password?" link for your userid and the forum software dutifully picked a scrambly password and sent it to you at your email registered with the forum. This could happen harmlessly without anyone successfully accessing your email or your forum account.
That is incorrect. Please see my post here
http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/3382517