It could be that you haven't activated IPN on the paypal side. Here's the steps you need to follow:

In order to use PayPal for automated subscriptions you must perform the following steps:

1. Log in to your Business or Premier account in Paypal.
2. Click the Profile subtab.
3. In the Selling Preferences column, click the Instant Payment Notification Preferences
link.
4. Click the Edit button.
5. Select the checkbox to activate IPN.
6. In the Notification URL text box, you can either leave this blank or enter the url to the paypal-ipn script, ie. http://www.ubbcentral.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=paypal-ipn
7. Click the Save button.

The script name is actually wrong, my fault, but not exactly sure that's the issue, because we send them the URL to notify when a request is made. However, since it's declared there it might be overriding it.

The script name should be paypal_ipn instead of paypal-ipn.

Other than that, the only thing that could be preventing this is if your php configuration doesn't allow an fsockopen call (you might want to check with your host on that).

I think we're going to need a support ticket for this one. Since it sounds like it was working before the move to the new server and now it's not it's kinda hard to say what it is.

I think we're going to need a support ticket for this one. Since it sounds like it was working before the move to the new server and now it's not it's kinda hard to say what it is.

When it gets stuck at pending that means paypal hasn't posted back to the paypal_ipn script for some reason.

I have checked the MySQL database and see PayPal has sent back through the "paypal_ipn" as the information is in the database and nothing is missing. Like I stated earlier is that is remained "Pending" untill I manually edited the database and then it went into an active subscription. After the subscription period ran out it remained "Active" for those users and still remains that way today. Those subscriptions ran out in December.

Like I said unless you have a way to do it in the message board software and not through PayPal it is cumbersome and really more of a hassle then it is worth. If you wish to setup a test board or use the area I had set aside for you several months ago and test and play with it feel free to do so but other then that unless you can control it through the Administration Control Panel I'm pretty much done with that idea, like I stated repeatedly it is to much of a hassle.