User registration problems

[daveryder]

Ok I wonder if it could be similar to this wordpress bbc prob: http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/regi...sent-new-issue

specifically:

I've got the same problem, but with another host(Hosteurope).
I solved it after I've asked my hoster. When sending an Email from my host, I need to add a -f parameter to the sendmail function.
Doing so in BBPress you will need to add a valid (and known for the server) Email-adress in line 90 of your bbpress-root-folder/bb-includes/backpress/class.mailer.php file from

/**
* Sets the Sender email (Return-Path) of the message. If not empty,
* will be sent via -f to sendmail or as 'MAIL FROM' in smtp mode.
* @var string
*/
var $Sender = '';

to

var $Sender = 'from@your-domain.com';

I hope this might help some of you

so in /libs/EmailFunctions.php change the empty from var to "from@your-domain.com", making sure it is an actual email account set up on the sending server, if that makes sense?

i dunno, i may be way off base here

[gibby]

Hi

Did anyone with this problem manage to fix it ?

Thanks

[Nick]

so in /libs/EmailFunctions.php change the empty from var to "from@your-domain.com", making sure it is an actual email account set up on the sending server, if that makes sense?

It would be an excellent suggestion, but $from is never empty. It gets set on line 64:

if (!$this->from) { $this->from = SITE_NAME . ' <' . SITE_EMAIL . '>'; } 

I suppose you could try changing that to simply:

if (!$this->from) { $this->from = SITE_EMAIL; } 

I doubt it will make any difference, but it's worth a shot.

I'm still curious to know whether this problem is only with the registration email or all emails.

[daveryder]

I'm starting to believe the problem is on host provider, some of them turn off sendmail for some stupid reason.

Why else would it work fine for some and not others? The ONLY difference is we have different hosts! Is it affecting allL emails sent from site, like from your contact form for instance? Then you almost know for sure it's a hosting sendmail issue.

[Nick]

I tried the PHP's Mail() Function using a separate page and it worked fine on my server

Gibby, can you paste or link to the exact code you used to successfully send an email from your server? I'd like to see the difference between what works and what doesn't. Thanks.

[gibby]

Hi Nick

I copied this code to my server and it works fine....

<?

// ---------------- SEND MAIL FORM ----------------

// send e-mail to ...
$to="name@mail.com";

// Your subject
$subject="Test";

// From
$header="from: your name <name@mail.com>";

// Your message
$message="Hello \r\n";
$message.="This is test\r\n";
$message.="Test again ";

// send email
$sentmail = mail($to,$subject,$message,$header);

// if your email succesfully sent
if($sentmail){
echo "Email Has Been Sent .";
}
else {
echo "Cannot Send Email ";
}

?>

[Nick]

Open libs/EmailFunctions.php and find the "switch" statement on line 77. Immediately before it, add $this->type = 'log';

        $this->type = 'log';
        switch ($this->type)
        {
            case 'log': 

Instead of trying to send an email, it will write the email contents to an email_log.php file which you should be able to view from Admin -> Maintenance -> Debug.

Once you can see the email in the error log, you can start investigating its parts.

The defaults are something like this:

To: My Hotaru Site <admin@example.com>
Subject: The Subject
Body: Email Contents
Headers: "From: My Hotaru Site <admin@example.com>\r\nReply-To: admin@example.com\r\nX-Priority: 3\r\n"
Return Path: -f admin@example.com

Gibby, in your case, remove the $this->type = 'log'; which we just added as a test and try hard-coding your line 102, i.e. Change:

mail($this->to, $this->subject, $this->body, $this->headers, $return_path); 

to:

$message="Hello \r\n";
$message.="This is test\r\n";
$message.="Test again ";
mail("name@mail.com", "Test", $message, "from: your name <name@mail.com>"); 

That should attempt to send exactly the same email as your test case. If it works, start reverting to the Hotaru original one bit at a time

[nothingman]

Thanks dave, thanks Nick.

Dave, I haven't tried resorting the order of the plugins. But will give it a shot.
Nick, I haven't tried your method. I have set the SENT MAIL: in the admin to XYZ@gmail.com. Here's a screen shot from my XYZ@gmail.com inbox. Seems the new mail that is supposed to be sent to the new users is sent back to my XYZ@gmail.com inbox with a Returned mail: see transcript for details error.

/sorry about the huge image


** giant image removed (too big and contains sensitive info) **

[Nick]

I've saved a copy of that image, but removed it from the post.

Good to see that it is at least trying to send an email, but I think the answer lies in the headers of the email that was sent, not in the returned "Mail Delivery Subsystem" email.

[alfbrand]

Does Hotaru use sendmail to send this email? I was poking around in my host's knowledgebase and came across this:

Problem:

SMTP fails when sending through mailing list, but no error logs are generated.

Solution:

Due to recent changes in our firewall, we do not support the origination of an MTA from our server. This change was brought about to eliminate the possibility of spam originating from our servers across port 25. Alternatively, you can use sendmail, located at /usr/sbin/sendmail, with the mailing list script.