Email and password problem

[Jonathan Decker]

I have installed YaBB SE and I love it, but I can't seem to get it to send emails out.  Like when quests reqister they are to receive a random password in their email.  But they don't get it.    My ISP says sendmail works and so does smtp.

Can someone help.

[David]

It doesn't like you.  

No, I would write something simple that uses the mail function andw see if that works.  If it does, problem in YaBBSE, if it doesn't then your host has a problem.  Here is the page on it, http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mail.php

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mail("[email protected]", "My Subject", "Does This Work");
or even better than that.

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if (mail("[email protected]", "My Subject", "Does This Work")) {
echo "good";
}
else echo "bad";That will print good if the e-mail went and bad if it didn't.

[Jonathan Decker]

I have used other scripts that use sendmail and smtp and they have worked.  So i think it is not my hosting provider.    Anyone else know of this problem?


Also I found out that my provider is using qmail instead of sendmail.  Is qmail supported and how.

[andrea]

Did you check whether the parameters in your board settings:

Location of Sendmail Program
SMTP-Server  
Webmaster Email Address  
Send Mails using


are set to the right values?

[Jonathan Decker]

Yes all my settings are all correct.  Just seems not to still work.  Also I had my ISP check my settings and they said it was also correct.

[Jeff Lewis]

I'm not sure it will work, can you post a phpinfo file for us?

[Jonathan Decker]

Where do I find that?

[Jonathan Decker]

ok everyone thanks for your help.   I found the problem and it is now working.

 

[Jeff Lewis]

What was it?