Email error on sign up

gonepostal_1 · - Joined: 02 Jun 2004 Posts: 108

Someone tel me if there is a post or if they can give me a sugestion as to why this happens.

Ran into problems sending Mail. Response: 535 Error: authentication failed

DEBUG MODE

Line : 131
File : C:\Program Files\Abyss Web Server\htdocs\forum1\phpbb2\includes\smtp.php

This happens when someone signs up for my forum. In the administartion pages I have email set up. with a hotpop account as per Trustpunks tutorial.
If I am leaving something out let me know.

Thanks
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cjsa · - Joined: 27 Jun 2004 Posts: 12 Location: Halifax, NS

I'm not sure if this is your problem but I have been having problems getting php to mail my form info to me. After 3 days of fighting with the code & the php.ini file in windows, I figured out that the server was using the php.ini file in the php folder.

To run a quick test to see if you are having the same problem go to the php folder and rename php.ini to php.bak.

Then try to access a php page on your server, if you get error message that it can't find the page then you need to go back & setup the correct setting in the php.ini file in the php folder.

Confused?
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iNaNimAtE · Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2004 7:49 pm Post subject:

gonepostal_1, in your phpBB settings, you are using SMTP authentication, correct? Either you typed the username/password wrong, or the server does not accept SMTP Authentication--in which case you need to remove both the username and password.
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gonepostal_1 · - Joined: 02 Jun 2004 Posts: 108

Tried that. Also tried changing the email adress and server. have gotten various errors.

here is an example of the last error. using the original email. No username password.

Failed sending email :: PHP ::

DEBUG MODE

Line : 234
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iNaNimAtE · Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2004 10:57 pm Post subject:

Edit your php.ini file to change the "SMTP" server, and change the "sendmail_from" line.
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gonepostal_1 · - Joined: 02 Jun 2004 Posts: 108

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = smtp.hotpop.com ; for Win32 only
smtp_port = 25
sendmail_from= gonepostal_1@hotpop.com ; for Win32 only

; For Win32 only.
;sendmail_from = gonepostal_1@hotpop.com

; For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
;sendmail_path =

is this the area of the php.ini you are talking about?
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iNaNimAtE · Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 10:09 pm Post subject:

Yes, that's it. It should look like this:

gonepostal_1 · - Joined: 02 Jun 2004 Posts: 108

ok-I changed it lets see what happens.
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WolfRamiO · Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2004 10:50 am Post subject:

install Argosoft mail server and do your own SMTP (localhost) work great and you get a unlimited mail space (your own disk), and a nice webmail too

gonepostal_1 · - Joined: 02 Jun 2004 Posts: 108

having mail problems again-

Ran into problems sending Mail. Response: 500 #5.5.1 command not recognized

DEBUG MODE

Line : 125
File : C:\Program Files\Abyss Web Server\htdocs\forum1\phpBB2\includes\smtp.php

this is the ini file settings

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = smtp.charter.net
smtp_port = 25
sendmail_from= rebelclan@charter.net

; For Unix only. You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
;sendmail_path =

can someone please help. thanks
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iNaNimAtE · Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 3:19 am Post subject:

It might be possible that the SMTP server you're using requires authentication. When you would normally access mail from that SMTP server via an email client, do you have to enable SMTP authentication? If so, keep the php.ini file how you have it, and enable authentication in phpBB.
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gonepostal_1 · - Joined: 02 Jun 2004 Posts: 108

no my server does not require smtp authentication.
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iNaNimAtE · Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 4:30 am Post subject:

Do you have authentication set up in phpBB?
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gonepostal_1 · - Joined: 02 Jun 2004 Posts: 108

I did. got rid of it and it is working fine- thanks

maybe one day I will see the obvious.
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iNaNimAtE · Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2004 5:49 am Post subject:

Hehe... we all miss the obvious sometimes.

Glad you got it working.
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AbyssUnderground · - Joined: 31 Dec 2004 Posts: 3855

I wouldnt bother with your own mail server. Your IP will be black listed meaning 90% of the mail you send or get sent wont arrive in your/the recepients mailbox. I run my own mailserver and I have this problem but I have other e-mail addresses for people who want to reach me.

Go with what I said in your original post about the sendmail() function.
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