Over 5000 emails sent reporting errors
 

My site is sending me thousands of emails reporting

Database error in vBulletin :
Link-ID == false, connect failed
mysql error: Too many connections
mysql error number: 1040

First... how do I stop it? It almost 6000 emails in the last two hours.

What do I change to make it stop reporting errors?

Check the Trouble Shooting forum at vBulletin.com there is a sticky there by Steve Machol which explains the error.

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...threadid=41678

^If ya havent found it yet:)

You need to increase the number of database connections allowed on your server. Edit your admin/config.php and set use persistent connection to "0". Then edit your php.ini or get your host to increase database connections.

I suspect your forums has become too busy for your current host. Time to go dedicated. :)

We were encountering the same problems... with ADDR.com

Switched over to venturesonline.com and viola... problem solved.

Greg

Thanks for the help guys... I stopped it after the 6000th email.

Talk about spam......

Reading up and looking for the cause now
Great help thanks.

Lmfao my hotmail account would go bust if this happened to me

haha

- miSt

Well something similar to this just happened to me... only that I only got around 1200 emails and my server was only down for around 5 minutes... (I was making some configuraiton changes).

My question is this:

Is there an addon/hack that will PREVENT vbulletin from sending ERROR email after a certain number? after the 50th email, I think I'll get the point and go fix the problem, no need for 5000 ;-)

Yeah, i had that happen to me before. Some idiot kept refreshing over and over again for sh!ts and giggles i guess.....Need to get a hack that says something like "Check back in a bit" or whatever.....You can also edit your admin/config.php and change the webmasters address to like "blah@blah.com" till it gets fixed, i think,