OK, I mentioned in my "migrate to a new ISP" thread that for some reason, email isn't going out any more. (And I haven't found an answer by searching through here.) No mail for new user reg's, none for PM's, nor for watched threads/forums - nothing. I've seen a few undeliverable birthday emails though, but they shouldn't be getting bounced, so that has me confused a bit.

I was getting email notifications before I actually did the final migration from our old server to our new server (from the new server). The migration consisted of re-importing the database and uploading our attachments directory, so I'm not sure how that could have affected things.

I can send mail from the command line just fine, so it's (probably) not a network issue. (I'm not 100% familiar with mail on Linux, but I'm assuming it uses the builtin MTA instead of it's own. However, the output is just different than I'm used to with Solaris where I know it connects to the local SMTP service.)

I tried changing from sendmail to exim in the php.ini file (as exim is installed with cPanel) to no avail. (So, our php sendmail path is now "/usr/sbin/exim -t -i".)

Our return email address is a local email account that is forwarded to my email account (that does work).

As a side note, I wish there was a feature in the CP to send a test mail to yourself.

Frankly, I'm stuck.

Ideas? It's getting to be a big problem for us (me).
TIA

Sheesh. I swear, you guys must have some tie in from this board. As soon as I post something here (after working on it on my own for a few days) it just starts working. Worse yet, I'm not 100% sure what I did to fix things.

Regardless, something worked. I can now get new user verifications.

I'm having the same problem, my provider has switched servers and now, no emails coming from the board. Any suggestions?

If they've moved servers, then I'd check in with them. Possible no email is being sent out from the server, or maybe you need to specify an SMTP server. Check with them and see what they have to say.

Thanks Rick

From the provider:

Anytime you want to send email through a program you will need to contact the manufacture of the program and find out how to modify the settings to use the out going mail server and the email address that you want to send from and to. This is normally like setting up email client software.

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My question is, how can i authenticate a user in UBB threads?

You can set up the outgoing mailserver under Primary Settings -> Advanced Options. You'll see where it has an option for the SMTP server. To actually authenticate as a user for sending, we don't have an interface for it, so you'd need to edit the file:

libs/phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php

About line 202, you'll see a few variables:



You can edit that, changing the first one to true and then entering the username and password inside the single quotes for the others.