Activation emails not sent. Users can't register.

Nuke Soldier Joined: Mar 30, 2003 Posts: 13

I am using PHPNuke 6.5 (upgraded from 6.0) on a Linux system with PHP 4.2.3.

Users who create a new account get entered into the nuke_users_temp table just fine but NOBODY is recieving thier activation emails. I tried to create some test accounts and I too never recieved any of the confirmation emails.. EXCEPT when I registered with an email under the same domain name as the my website. No other emails seemed to work for me and I have many users sitting in the queue now waiting to become members.

Other information that could help is:

- I upgraded last week from phpnuke 6.0 and everything was working fine then.

- Emails are also not being recieved on responces in the forums or for PM notifications.

- The flashing message icon for when you have a new PM and are logged in no longer appears (no idea if that is related or not).

- I have the correct Default POP3 SMTP settings in the Admin -> preferences and have tried both with Yes and No checked for based on single account. (under 6.0 it was checked to no with those settings and worked fine).

- In phpbb Configure I also have the correct SMTP settings and have tried it with both Yes and No selected for Use SMTP Server for email (with the correct user information as well)

- the URL for my site is http://www.swg-datapad.com/,

- The url for analyze is http://www.swg-datapad.com/analyze.php

- I have

Code:

From php.ini
[SMTP] => Array
(
[global_value] => localhost
[local_value] => localhost
[access] => 7
)

[sendmail_path] => Array
(
[global_value] => /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i
[local_value] => /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i
[access] => 4
)

These settings seem to be ok and this file hasn't changed.

- This seems to be a problem other people are having however no solution is present that I can find. The URLs for threads of people with similar problems that I've found are at:

http://phpnuke.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=6554&highlight=email+sending
http://www.phpnuke.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=6967
http://phpnuke.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=6554&highlight=email+sending
http://phpnuke.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=6530&highlight=email+sending
http://phpnuke.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=5130&highlight=email+sending

I've seen some forum reports that some providers changed the phpfunction from mail() to email(), however this is not a problem in my case and doesn't not seem to be a problem in most cases.

This is a big problem for my site. Thanks in advance for any insignt, effort, or help.

Nuke Soldier Joined: Mar 30, 2003 Posts: 13

Still searching the web for an answer and wanted to pass on something that could be related to the overall problem, I'm not sure though.

As I said above one of the overall symptoms I listed was no email notifications of Private Messages.

Well I applied the PM fix file at Nukeresources (http://www.nukeresources.com/files/pmindex.zip) and now I get email notices of PMs.

Still have the user registration email problem which is the big one, but I wanted to pass this on because I don't know if they are related or not.

Joined: Jan 31, 2004 Posts: -88

please search our forums. A solution to this has already been suggested elsewhere.

AI