It seems that default email address for people to contact and send error messages to is []administrator@xxxxx.com.[/] I dont remember setting that email address when I installed the bbs and now I need to change it. How do I do this?
Also, whenever you try to enter a forum with one or more posts get this error:
Content-type: text/html Software error: Illegal division by zero at /home/httpd/cgi-bin/ubb_forum.cgi line 158.
Those error messages are produced by your server. Not UBB. You'll need to contact your web host or server administrator to find out how to change that.
Wound up re-installing UBB6. Error has not happened again. I'll post again if it does. When an error does occur though it is still sending my feedback to []administrator@XXXXX.com.[/] I have changed every field that deals with feedback email to the correct address and this is still happening. Maybe you can tell me exactly where to go to change this.
There are two email addresses in the control panel - one in Registration Settings, one in General Settings... what are they? Are they valid email addresses for that server?
its on Linux machine running sendmail. The only email I was able to change was the 'Support Email Address' under general display settings. The one I changed in the general settings and the administrator email address are both valid.
The admin email only pops up when there is an error and ubb tells you to submit your error to a specific email, in this case the admin email. I just turned on the send an email for each registration option, which I had not tried out yet, and I am getting this error message:
Content-type: text/html Software error: open | -t -oi: Permission denied at /home/httpd/cgi-bin/ubb_lib_mail.cgi line 39
As for the UBBFriend items, are you referring to the private message feature?
To give you a little more info. When the error message in my last post pops up, the user does get registered and can log into the board, but no email is sent to that person or the address I designated to recieve registration emails.
Okay, first things first - go into the UBB's email settings, make sure that each and every option there has a selection (except the SMTP server name, as you're using sendmail) - make sure specifically that the choice between HTML and text email is made - that's when the error you gave occurs.
Question... when the UBB did send mail, did the user receive it FROM administrator@, or is that address only seen when UBB generates errors?
Nice. I changed it from text only to HTML and the registrations email works now. The email of the person who registered did not receive an email though, should it?
The UBB has not sent out any mail that I know of. It seems that the admin email address only pops up when there is an error that it tells the user to report.
Have the user who did not get mail to continue to try to use functions that send mail, such as the UBBFriend feature. Talk to the sysadmins to ensure that the UBB can send mail from the two email addresses listed in the control panel to the user. Sometimes, if a domain is local, sendmail gets a little confused and won't deliver the mail properly unless configured otherwise.
As for the errors... the administrator@ email address was set by the sysadmin... there's nothing you can (or should) do to change it. The best thing to do would be to fix the errors themselves... <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />