Email problems

[Fermious]

Hello all!
GREAT job on this awesome YaBB port! I just love it!!  I was looking for a good PHP and mySQL board, but i couldn't find a good one that i liked, since i'm so used to YaBB ..and now this is yabb with the features i want!! anyhoo...about the email problems bug (or maybe not a bug)

if you go to my test board (i test everything before i actually use) at http://www.dna4141.com/html/board2 and sign up, you won' tget an email at all for ur password or anything.  if i go into the admin section and email my members, nobody gets their emails.  so i am having trouble with the email systems..can anyone please help me out?  thanks!

[Joseph Fung]

Sounds like mail isn't configured right in the php config files.

Where are you being hosted?

[Fermious]

i know ..that's what i thought too..go here to see my php info: http://www.dna4141.com/html/phpinfo.php

tell me if there is something wrong.

thanks.

[Joseph Fung]

I don't think I can tell from the php info - it's actually established in the config file if I remember right.

But I've never installed php myself, so I can't say...

[Fermious]

oops..hold on..don't try th elink yet.haha.wrong file.
hold up

[Fermious]

well.then what should i do?
my host says the php.ini file is properly configured..so i dunno what to do!

[Fermious]

ok..the link to see my php configuration file is working..so can somebody that is familiar with this type of stuff go here:
http://www.dna4141.com/html/phpinfo.php
and tell me if they see something wrong in the config.

thanks

[Jeff Lewis]

Your host needs to fix it, the sendmail path isn't set...look at your info file...

[Jeff Lewis]

So should look something like:

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/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i

[Fermious]

umm..no..ur wrong about that..cuz its not a *nix system..its a WinNT system..therefore only the smtp is needed, and it should use the smtp

if i create this small php script and run it:

<?php
mail("[email protected]", "the subject", $message,
     "From: webmaster@$SERVER_NAME\r\n"
    ."Reply-To: webmaster@$SERVER_NAME\r\n"
    ."X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion());
 ?>


i will receive it..so i conclude that the mailing part of my php.ini is fine.

it could still be my php.ini file, but not the mail section..or it could be a piece in your code that makes it incompatible with some server software.

anyhoo, thanks for trying.

[Jeff Lewis]

Oops, guess I should read the System line and not assume every sane person is running *nix

[Fermious]

 

LOL
ah well

[CorsaCat]

hi,

I have the same problem, (on a win2000 system).
No error message, but no mail was sent.

How can I understand, that I MUST use the smtp with win2000? I´ve tried this also - set the path to my smtp server (which also sends my normal mails), switched the mode to "1-SMTP" - but the result was the same - no mails sent.
What can be wrong? Any idea?

Cu
CorsaCat

[Savageman]

i may have solved our problem!!  i edited the code in subs.php to be

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function sendmail($to,$subject,$message,$from) {

    global $mailtype,$webmaster_email;
    mail($to,$subject,$message,"From: $from\r\n");
}
and it worked beautifily.  i guess you could leave the if statement, but i looked where the other pages call the fxn and there is a $from, so it would not be null.  i think the problem was returning something.  w00t! im learning php through a crash course of fixing the board!

[Fermious]

i'm hoping that someone can hlep us!
like i said in a previous post...the mail inside php.ini is properly configured, as i tested it with a test script, but inside yabb, it doesnt'