thanks again for the help.
i've run into another problem that i think is related to the server changes at my web hosting provider.
the email verification seems to have stopped working. i'm getting emails saying users haven't received their emails. i tried using the "forgot email" features to send a password to an account and i get the following message:
Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 550 5.7.1 Unable to relay for []
[email protected][/] in d:\DOMAINS\coltforum.com\wwwroot\forums\ubbt.inc.php on line 262
users can receive email from me when i email them directly but the automated email from the forum software seems to have broken after the server upgrades/changes. i believe my mail server is on a different box than the web/forum server. i'm assuming i just need to point the software to the ip of the mail server, but i've been digging thru the ubb files and can't seem to find it. does anyone know where this mail config file is?...or if i'm wrong, anyone know how i fix this? thanks again.
-osamu