Activation E-Mail Problems

[MiahBeSmokin420]

is there a reason why people would not be getting the activation e-mail

i even tried setting it up to send the e-mails through the smpt server or what ever

is there any setting in the php files them selfs that could help fix any problems?

the fast i get this fixed the better

thanks

[Marco van Herwaarden]

You will need to start by figuring out where it goes wrong. Are the mails actually sent from your server? Are they maybe catched by a Spam filter at the client side? Etc..

Start by running Email Diagnostics under: AdminCP -> Maintenance -> Diagnostics.

Some good reading (thanks Alfa1 for the link in your sig): Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo & AOL's guidelines for bulk mailing need your attention.

[MiahBeSmokin420]

ya its cool idk what the problem is

im running vb 3.6.7 right now

but at this moment im backing up my entire server to a remote server and then im upgrading to the newest vb

maybe that will fix things

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Upgrading to a new vBulletin version will most likely not make any difference at all regarding emails.

Run the Diagnostics and if that does not give a clue to why they fail, ask your host to inspect the mailserver log files.

[MiahBeSmokin420]

i am my own host i sitting 3 feet from my server

there is nothing wrong nothing in the error logs ran maintence and all that i even reset me server a few hours ago

im guessing that some how some domains but my ip on there block list for some reason idk

[stelthius]

people with AOL, or there own such as me@mine.co.uk do not get the emails you have to allow Vbulletin to send emails to unknown address's i had this problem at first and because the first 30 - 40 people had there own email address's i couldnt figure out the problem so then i registerd multiple times with multiple hotmail accounts and i got an email everytime which backed up my theory

[MiahBeSmokin420]

well yahoo and hotmail are the main problems

some times they get sent some times they dont

it dont make any since at all

cause like i said there is nothing in the error logs and no bounced e-mails

they just are not being sent

idk im thinking about disabeling the whole email activation thing any ways i already got a ton of things that stops spam bots from posting anyways i just got to turn them on

[stelthius]

well sometimes its nice to resolve the issue rather than it causing more errors/problems later on,

Good luck mate

[MiahBeSmokin420]

ya i hear that im upgrading from 3.6.7 to 3.6.8 right now

ill look into this some more when im done

thanks yall

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Originally Posted by MiahBeSmokin420

well yahoo and hotmail are the main problems

some times they get sent some times they dont

You are very likely jumping to the wrong conclusion. If someone does not receive/see an email, then you can not conclude that it wasn't sent. It could be sent (likely) but not accepted by the Mail provider of the member (ie. ditched in a dark pit full of spam?)