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Hello to everyone!
I am sorry for asking, perhaps, a stupid question but I cannot find where a problem is.
When someone is signing to my board, password notification is not coming to his e-mail. Checking this trouble I was trying to send e-mails to board members -thoug software claims that message hase been sent, no one (including me)has received it. The same trouble with UBBfriend -it says that message has been sent, but message never arrives.
My forum is registered UBB6.05 (with some small hacks) located at: http://www.sera.com.ua/forum
Server is UNIX Apache 1.3.22 , Perl 5.00503

If one may advise me I would be much grateful!
(I also checked e-mail functions with Phorm 2.51 PHP script -it works without any trouble).

Best regards and thank you,
Evgen

Do ANY of the email functions work?

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Charles Capps
Programmer, Infopop Corporation
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Dear Charles,
Thank you for a reply. I 've checked all mail functions again and no one seems to work -no UBBfriend, no private message notification, no password/login recovery e-mailing.
What can be wrong -provider claims he changed nothing and previously these service worked.
Many thanks for help!
Evgen

Are you using SMTP or sendmail?

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Charles Capps
Programmer, Infopop Corporation
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Charles,
It's sendmail. UBB found path itself as /USR/SBIN/SENDMAIL.

Evgen

Actually, no UBB didn't. It probably just used a stock path. You'll want to verify with your web hosting provider on whether they use sendmail or SMTP and the correct path to the appropriate service.

If that path does end up being correct, see if your web host keeps any mail error logs.

Doug
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Please make sure that the path really isn't "/USR/SBIN/SENDMAIL" - the path MUST be lower-case.

Please ask your web hosting provider about the real location of sendmail...

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Charles Capps
Programmer, Infopop Corporation
Please do not contact me privately for support - post on the board or open a support ticket instead!

Provider uses Unix (I think Solaris) and so, Sendmail.
He says he changed nothing - but e-mail function stop working.
Is there any way (say, using php or cgi script) in order to find location of mail function on server?
Or there is a problem somewhere in different place?
Thank you,
Evgen

If he changed nothing, then you may have changed something.

Try this.

Download and edit vars_mail.cgi. Delete the sendmail path line within it, and upload it to the server.

After doing so, enter email settings.

Is the path that is now in email settings the same as it was before?

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Charles Capps
Programmer, Infopop Corporation
Please do not contact me privately for support - post on the board or open a support ticket instead!

Dear Charles,
Many thanks for your reply. It seems to be a kind of vudu magic <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> , but after aplyying pproposed procedure mail function started working again!
The strange thing is that new path is exactly the same as the old one!?
Anyhow, thank you and SWFan for your time and help!

Best regards,
Evgen
PS I have one other question, but I'll open a new thread <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

You'd be surprised about the kind of little tricks you can do to a UBB to make it work again... <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

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Charles Capps
Programmer, Infopop Corporation
Please do not contact me privately for support - post on the board or open a support ticket instead!