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Originally Posted by aus_dave

No - I'm using a POP account created especially for this purpose. vbMailer is logging in and finding the bounced mail ok, and sending the PMs.

Support are looking into my install as there are more important issues than this causing me grief at the moment .

Yes we are finding that doing a run on your forums there it's taking forever to login to your POP accounts for some apparent reason or another, as said we would better diagnose this if we had full access to this server. We are trying our hardest on this and trying to diagnose this issue that you are having and can't seem to pinpoint it with these issues.

One forums runs with all of these Mods as noted smoothly:

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Then to note their php.ini:

PHP Code:

PHP Version 4.4.4

System     Linux server1.server.com 2.4.21-40.ELsmp #1 SMP Thu Feb 2 22:22:39 EST 2006 i686
Build Date     Aug 28 2007 21:07:07
Configure Command     './configure' '--with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs' '--prefix=/usr/local' '--with-xml' '--enable-bcmath' '--enable-calendar' '--with-curl' '--with-dom' '--with-dom-xslt' '--with-dom-exslt' '--with-swf=/usr/local/flash' '--enable-ftp' '--with-gd' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local' '--with-png-dir=/usr' '--with-xpm-dir=/usr/X11R6' '--with-gettext' '--enable-mbstring' '--enable-mbstr-enc-trans' '--enable-mbregex' '--with-mcrypt' '--enable-magic-quotes' '--with-mysqli' '--with-mysql=/usr' '--with-openssl' '--enable-discard-path' '--with-pear' '--enable-sockets' '--enable-track-vars' '--enable-wddx' '--with-xmlrpc' '--with-zip' '--with-zlib'
Server API     Apache
Virtual Directory Support     disabled
Configuration File (php.ini) Path     /usr/local/Zend/etc/php.ini
PHP API     20020918
PHP Extension     20020429
Zend Extension     20050606
Debug Build     no
Zend Memory Manager     enabled
Thread Safety     disabled
Registered PHP Streams     php, http, ftp, https, ftps, compress.zlib

Zend logo This program makes use of the Zend Scripting Language Engine:
Zend Engine v1.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2004 Zend Technologies

PHP Credits
Configuration
PHP Core
Directive    Local Value    Master Value
allow_call_time_pass_reference    On    On
allow_url_fopen    On    On
always_populate_raw_post_data    Off    Off
arg_separator.input    &    &
arg_separator.output    &    &
asp_tags    Off    Off
auto_append_file    no value    no value
auto_prepend_file    no value    no value
browscap    no value    no value
default_charset    no value    no value
default_mimetype    text/html    text/html
define_syslog_variables    Off    Off
disable_classes    no value    no value
disable_functions    no value    no value
display_errors    On    On
display_startup_errors    Off    Off
doc_root    no value    no value
docref_ext    no value    no value
docref_root    no value    no value
enable_dl    On    On
error_append_string    no value    no value
error_log    error_log    error_log
error_prepend_string    no value    no value
error_reporting    2039    2039
expose_php    On    On
extension_dir    /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20020429    /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20020429
file_uploads    On    On
gpc_order    GPC    GPC
highlight.bg    #FFFFFF    #FFFFFF
highlight.comment    #FF8000    #FF8000
highlight.default    #0000BB    #0000BB
highlight.html    #000000    #000000
highlight.keyword    #007700    #007700
highlight.string    #DD0000    #DD0000
html_errors    On    On
ignore_repeated_errors    Off    Off
ignore_repeated_source    Off    Off
ignore_user_abort    Off    Off
implicit_flush    Off    Off
include_path    .:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php    .:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php
log_errors    On    On
log_errors_max_len    1024    1024
magic_quotes_gpc    On    On
magic_quotes_runtime    Off    Off
magic_quotes_sybase    Off    Off
max_execution_time    2000    2000
max_input_time    -1    -1
open_basedir    no value    no value
output_buffering    no value    no value
output_handler    no value    no value
post_max_size    55M    55M
precision    14    14
register_argc_argv    On    On
register_globals    Off    Off
report_memleaks    On    On
safe_mode    Off    Off
safe_mode_exec_dir    no value    no value
safe_mode_gid    Off    Off
safe_mode_include_dir    no value    no value
sendmail_from    no value    no value
sendmail_path    /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i    /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i
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short_open_tag    On    On
SMTP    localhost    localhost
smtp_port    25    25
sql.safe_mode    Off    Off
track_errors    Off    Off
unserialize_callback_func    no value    no value
upload_max_filesize    20M    20M
upload_tmp_dir    no value    no value
user_dir    no value    no value
variables_order    EGPCS    EGPCS
xmlrpc_error_number    0    0
xmlrpc_errors    Off    Off
y2k_compliance    Off    Off

apache
APACHE_INCLUDE     no value
APACHE_TARGET     no value
Apache Version     Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/4.4.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635.SR1.2 mod_ssl/2.8.28 OpenSSL/0.9.7a
Apache Release     10337100
Apache API Version     19990320
Hostname:Port     xxxxxforums.com:80
User/Group     nobody(99)/99
Max Requests     Per Child: 45 - Keep Alive: on - Max Per Connection: 100
Timeouts     Connection: 150 - Keep-Alive: 10
Server Root     /usr/local/apache
Loaded Modules     mod_evasive, mod_security, mod_auth_passthrough, mod_log_bytes, mod_bwlimited, mod_php4, mod_frontpage, mod_ssl, mod_setenvif, mod_so, mod_expires, mod_auth, mod_access, mod_rewrite, mod_alias, mod_userdir, mod_actions, mod_imap, mod_asis, mod_cgi, mod_dir, mod_autoindex, mod_include, mod_status, mod_negotiation, mod_mime, mod_log_config, mod_env, http_core

Directive    Local Value    Master Value
child_terminate    0    0
engine    1    1
last_modified    0    0
xbithack    0    0

Apache Environment
Variable    Value
DOCUMENT_ROOT     /home/xxxxx/public_html
HTTP_ACCEPT     application/x-shockwave-flash,text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET     ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING     gzip,deflate
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE     en-us,en;q=0.5
HTTP_CONNECTION     keep-alive
HTTP_HOST     www.xxxxxforums.com
HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE     300
HTTP_REFERER     http://www.xxxxxforums.com/forums/admincp/index.php?do=nav
HTTP_USER_AGENT     Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6
PATH     /bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin
REMOTE_ADDR     71.112.99.248
REMOTE_PORT     1385
SCRIPT_FILENAME     /home/xxxxx/public_html/forums/admincp/index.php
SERVER_ADDR     70.85.225.207
SERVER_ADMIN     webmaster@xxxxxforums.com
SERVER_NAME     xxxxxforums.com
SERVER_PORT     80
SERVER_SIGNATURE     no value
SERVER_SOFTWARE     Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/4.4.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635.SR1.2 mod_ssl/2.8.28 OpenSSL/0.9.7a
GATEWAY_INTERFACE     CGI/1.1
SERVER_PROTOCOL     HTTP/1.1
REQUEST_METHOD     GET
QUERY_STRING     do=phpinfo
REQUEST_URI     /forums/admincp/index.php?do=phpinfo
SCRIPT_NAME     /forums/admincp/index.php

HTTP Headers Information
HTTP Request Headers
HTTP Request     GET /forums/admincp/index.php?do=phpinfo HTTP/1.1
Accept     application/x-shockwave-flash,text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Charset     ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Accept-Encoding     gzip,deflate
Accept-Language     en-us,en;q=0.5
Connection     keep-alive
Cookie     psistats_screenwidth=1280; psistats_screenheight=1024; psistats_screendepth=32; bbsessionhash=65ab7b3cb23a6b6fcee4f5f178bf5b49; bblastvisit=1188445182; bblastactivity=0; bbwelcomeheaders=1188445189; bbcpsession=4e4cb191bc347e78d098c4ab8875db63; bbuserid=2; bbpassword=35fb8df1447368072c3bb0928444e1f0; __utma=149517347.1746368621.1188460839.1188460839.1188460839.1; __utmb=149517347; __utmc=149517347; __utmz=149517347.1188460839.1.1.utmccn=(direct)|utmcsr=(direct)|utmcmd=(none); vbulletin_collapse=forumhome_events
Host     www.xxxxxforums.com
Keep-Alive     300
Referer     http://www.xxxxxforums.com/forums/admincp/index.php?do=nav
User-Agent     Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6
HTTP Response Headers
X-Powered-By     PHP/4.4.4
Expires     0
Cache-Control     private, post-check=0, pre-check=0, max-age=0
Pragma     no-cache
Keep-Alive     timeout=10, max=100
Connection     Keep-Alive
Transfer-Encoding     chunked
Content-Type     text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

bcmath
BCMath support     enabled

calendar
Calendar support     enabled

ctype
ctype functions     enabled

curl
CURL support     enabled
CURL Information     libcurl/7.15.3 OpenSSL/0.9.7a zlib/1.1.4 libidn/0.4.6

domxml
DOM/XML     enabled
DOM/XML API Version     20020815
libxml Version     20622
HTML Support     enabled
XPath Support     enabled
XPointer Support     enabled
DOM/XSLT     enabled
libxslt Version     1.1.16
libxslt compiled against libxml Version     2.6.22
DOM/EXSLT     enabled
libexslt Version     1.1.16

ftp
FTP support     enabled

gd
GD Support     enabled
GD Version     bundled (2.0.28 compatible)
GIF Read Support     enabled
GIF Create Support     enabled
JPG Support     enabled
PNG Support     enabled
WBMP Support     enabled
XBM Support     enabled

gettext
GetText Support     enabled

mbstring
Multibyte Support     enabled
Japanese support     enabled
Simplified chinese support     enabled
Traditional chinese support     enabled
Korean support     enabled
Russian support     enabled
Multibyte (japanese) regex support     enabled

mbstring extension makes use of "streamable kanji code filter and converter", which is distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1.

Directive    Local Value    Master Value
mbstring.detect_order    no value    no value
mbstring.encoding_translation    Off    Off
mbstring.func_overload    0    0
mbstring.http_input    pass    pass
mbstring.http_output    pass    pass
mbstring.internal_encoding    no value    no value
mbstring.language    neutral    neutral
mbstring.substitute_character    no value    no value

mcrypt
mcrypt support    enabled
version     >= 2.4.x
Supported ciphers     cast-128 gost rijndael-128 twofish arcfour cast-256 loki97 rijndael-192 saferplus wake blowfish-compat des rijndael-256 serpent xtea blowfish enigma rc2 tripledes
Supported modes     cbc cfb ctr ecb ncfb nofb ofb stream

Directive    Local Value    Master Value
mcrypt.algorithms_dir    no value    no value
mcrypt.modes_dir    no value    no value

mysql
MySQL Support    enabled
Active Persistent Links     0
Active Links     1
Client API version     5.0.27
MYSQL_MODULE_TYPE     external
MYSQL_SOCKET     /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
MYSQL_INCLUDE     -I/usr/include/mysql
MYSQL_LIBS     -L/usr/lib -lmysqlclient

Directive    Local Value    Master Value
mysql.allow_persistent    On    On
mysql.connect_timeout    60    60
mysql.default_host    no value    no value
mysql.default_password    no value    no value
mysql.default_port    no value    no value
mysql.default_socket    no value    no value
mysql.default_user    no value    no value
mysql.max_links    Unlimited    Unlimited
mysql.max_persistent    Unlimited    Unlimited
mysql.trace_mode    Off    Off

openssl
OpenSSL support     enabled
OpenSSL Version     OpenSSL 0.9.7a Feb 19 2003

overload
User-Space Object Overloading Support     enabled

pcre
PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) Support     enabled
PCRE Library Version     6.6 06-Feb-2006

posix
Revision     $Revision: 1.51.2.4.2.1 $

session
Session Support     enabled
Registered save handlers     files user

Directive    Local Value    Master Value
session.auto_start    Off    Off
session.bug_compat_42    On    On
session.bug_compat_warn    On    On
session.cache_expire    180    180
session.cache_limiter    nocache    nocache
session.cookie_domain    no value    no value
session.cookie_lifetime    0    0
session.cookie_path    /    /
session.cookie_secure    Off    Off
session.entropy_file    no value    no value
session.entropy_length    0    0
session.gc_divisor    100    100
session.gc_maxlifetime    1440    1440
session.gc_probability    1    1
session.name    PHPSESSID    PHPSESSID
session.referer_check    no value    no value
session.save_handler    files    files
session.save_path    /tmp    /tmp
session.serialize_handler    php    php
session.use_cookies    On    On
session.use_only_cookies    Off    Off
session.use_trans_sid    On    On

sockets
Sockets Support     enabled

standard
Regex Library     Bundled library enabled
Dynamic Library Support     enabled
Path to sendmail     /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i

Directive    Local Value    Master Value
assert.active    1    1
assert.bail    0    0
assert.callback    no value    no value
assert.quiet_eval    0    0
assert.warning    1    1
auto_detect_line_endings    0    0
default_socket_timeout    60    60
safe_mode_allowed_env_vars    PHP_    PHP_
safe_mode_protected_env_vars    LD_LIBRARY_PATH    LD_LIBRARY_PATH
url_rewriter.tags    a=href,area=href,frame=src,form=,fieldset=    a=href,area=href,frame=src,form=,fieldset=
user_agent    no value    no value

swf
swf support     enabled

tokenizer
Tokenizer Support     enabled

wddx
WDDX Support    enabled
WDDX Session Serializer     enabled

xml
XML Support     active
XML Namespace Support     active
EXPAT Version     1.95.6

xmlrpc
core library version     xmlrpc-epi v. 0.51
php extension version     0.51
author     Dan Libby
homepage     http://xmlrpc-epi.sourceforge.net
open sourced by     Epinions.com

zip
Zip support     enabled

zlib
ZLib Support     enabled
Compiled Version     1.1.4
Linked Version     1.1.4

Directive    Local Value    Master Value
zlib.output_compression    Off    Off
zlib.output_compression_level    -1    -1
zlib.output_handler    no value    no value

Additional Modules
Module Name

Environment
Variable    Value
USER     root
USERNAME     root
PATH     /bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin
PWD     /
SHLVL     1
HOME     /root
RESTARTSRV     1
_     /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd

PHP Variables
Variable    Value
_REQUEST["do"]    phpinfo
_REQUEST["s"]    no value
_REQUEST["styleid"]    0
_REQUEST["langid"]    0
_REQUEST["redirect"]    no value
_REQUEST["nojs"]    0
_REQUEST["navprefs"]    no value
_GET["do"]    phpinfo
_POST["adminhash"]    no value
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_COOKIE["psistats_screenheight"]    1024
_COOKIE["psistats_screendepth"]    32
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_COOKIE["bbcpsession"]    4e4cb191bc347e78d098c4ab8875db63
_COOKIE["bbuserid"]    2
_COOKIE["bbpassword"]    35fb8df1447368072c3bb0928444e1f0
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_COOKIE["__utmc"]    149517347
_COOKIE["__utmz"]    149517347.1188460839.1.1.utmccn=(direct)|utmcsr=(direct)|utmcmd=(none)
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_COOKIE["bbreferrerid"]    0
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_COOKIE["bbstyleid"]    0
_COOKIE["bblanguageid"]    0
_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]    /home/xxxxx/public_html
_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT"]    application/x-shockwave-flash,text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET"]    ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING"]    gzip,deflate
_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"]    en-us,en;q=0.5
_SERVER["HTTP_CONNECTION"]    keep-alive
_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"]    www.domain.com
_SERVER["HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE"]    300
_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"]    http://www.domain.com/forums/admincp/index.php?do=nav
_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"]    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6
_SERVER["PATH"]    /bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin
_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"]    OURIP
_SERVER["REMOTE_PORT"]    1385
_SERVER["SCRIPT_FILENAME"]    /home/xxxxx/public_html/forums/admincp/index.php
_SERVER["SERVER_ADDR"]    serverIP
_SERVER["SERVER_ADMIN"]    webmaster@xxxxxforums.com
_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"]    xxxxxforums.com
_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"]    80
_SERVER["SERVER_SIGNATURE"]    no value
_SERVER["SERVER_SOFTWARE"]    Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/4.4.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635.SR1.2 mod_ssl/2.8.28 OpenSSL/0.9.7a
_SERVER["GATEWAY_INTERFACE"]    CGI/1.1
_SERVER["SERVER_PROTOCOL"]    HTTP/1.1
_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"]    GET
_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"]    do=phpinfo
_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]    /forums/admincp/index.php?do=phpinfo
_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"]    /forums/admincp/index.php
_SERVER["PATH_TRANSLATED"]    /home/xxxxx/public_html/forums/admincp/index.php
_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]    /forums/admincp/index.php
_SERVER["argv"]    

Array
(
    [0] => do=phpinfo
)

_SERVER["argc"]    1
_ENV["USER"]    root
_ENV["USERNAME"]    root
_ENV["PATH"]    /bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin
_ENV["PWD"]    /
_ENV["SHLVL"]    1
_ENV["HOME"]    /root
_ENV["RESTARTSRV"]    1
_ENV["_"]    /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd 


So we are trying to figure out what is what here vs their forums and your forums, we just cant run all the tests due to restrictions of your sysadmin. We are still comparing the differences because you guys use the same server type if I am correct...

Only thing we are pretty concerned about is this:

eAccelerator

Don't give up, because we are not