Email Activation
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Printed Date: 13 April 2026 at 7:54pm
Software Version: Web Wiz Forums 12.08 - https://www.webwizforums.com
Topic: Email Activation
Posted By: LaunchSSV
Subject: Email Activation
Date Posted: 31 May 2003 at 7:14am
| I am having a problem with Activation emails not going out to new registered members at my site. This started about a week or so ago and is intermittent. Some get the emails and some dont. I checked the admin panel and Email Activation of Members is still checked ON. Any idea what might be happening? I have had to go in and manually activate 27 new forum members in the last week and half. |
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Posted By: Sliv
Date Posted: 31 May 2003 at 8:00am
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Depending on your provider, recipients mail hosts might be blocking your mail sends due to spam blocking. This happened to me. Apparently a certain user of mine never received the email because his mail host was blocking the ip range hosting my server because they subscribed to an anti-spam service of sorts. The service had detected that my web hosting provider had a client that was spamming people so the service blocked the provider's whole IP range. So, any emails sent to this user would never be received. Fortunately for me, my hosting provider sends me an email automatically whenever there are any undeliverables or errors and explains the problem. I reported it to my provider, they banned the spammer account and got in touch with the anti-spam service about re-allowing their IP range to send mail to their subscribers. If it wasn't for my provider sending me that automated email, there would be no way for me to have figured out why the user wasn't receiving the activation emails. No idea if that's what's happening with you, but it's a possibility. On a much simpler note, be sure you can actually send email through your provider successfully. Try sending yourself a form email through the email user function of the forum. |
Posted By: whittibo
Date Posted: 31 May 2003 at 8:14am
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Don't know if this will help much, but my emails were being refused by a lot of servers awhile ago. I called one of the servers who refused me, and they said that my server had been known to not be a "secure server".. and they wouldn't let any emails from my server in. Also.. I have a question.. a weird one at that.. but you said you had to activate 27 new users in the past week and a half.. so my question is this.. how on earth do you get so much traffic to your site that you get that many new users? I was just asked to start a diet forum, and would love to know how to get that much traffic over to my forum. Thanks and good luck to you! |
Posted By: Bliss
Date Posted: 31 May 2003 at 9:32am
| A diet forum, post a flyer at a bulletin board in a health club! |
Posted By: LaunchSSV
Date Posted: 31 May 2003 at 11:33am
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Thanks for the input and I found out the server is not a secure server, but I can send myself and others, emails through the site email program, and I have no problems recieving emails through my IP, so I can eliminate that one. And Whittibo, I have a XBOX LIVE gaming site supporting ladder matches, be it solo or team based. I too, recommend hitting boards at diet centers/clubs. |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 01 June 2003 at 3:26am
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It could be problems with the server you are on, try contacting your web host. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: euromarinos
Date Posted: 04 March 2005 at 4:57am
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I don't know if anyone of you still reads this thread but I really wonder if my problem is similar to everyone's.
I set up my forum to send an activation email, but when a new member registers for a new account, the mail doesn't get sent out and the server returns me a HTTP 500 - Internal Server Error to me. And whenever a certain email function is called, I'd get this error again. I've checked that my server allows me to send mail using CDO, and I was able to send mails out using CDO, so I'm scratching my heads silly trying to figure out what's wrong. ------------- Jack of all trades and master of none - I know bits of everything, so in theory I know everything. But in practice I know nothing. |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 04 March 2005 at 5:28am
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If you are using IE you need to turn of friendly HTTP error messages to get an acurate error message of what the problem is.
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Posted By: euromarinos
Date Posted: 04 March 2005 at 6:28am
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Maybe I'm dumb or something, but this is all I get as far as the error message is concerned:
error 8004020f I can't seem to be able to get any more information about the error so I guess that's all the information that I can provide. What I did just now was that I changed the sentusingmethod to 1, after which I didn't get the error message, but the mail doesn't seemed to get sent. ------------- Jack of all trades and master of none - I know bits of everything, so in theory I know everything. But in practice I know nothing. |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 04 March 2005 at 6:42am
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Are you trying to use a 'localhost' mail server? If so web wiz forums currently doesn't support a localhost mail server. The error sugests an email setup problem. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: euromarinos
Date Posted: 04 March 2005 at 10:27pm
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Sorted out the problem already - I forgot to set the authentication method. Silly me.
In any case what I did was insert the following line into functions_send_email.asp: With objCDOSYSCon 'Out going SMTP server .Fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver") = strOutgoingMailServer 'SMTP port .Fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserverport") = 25 'CDO Port .Fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing") = 2 'Timeout .Fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpconnectiontimeout") = 60 'Login Name .Fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusername") = "<my username>" 'Password .Fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendpassword" ) = "<my password>" 'Authentication Method .Fields("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpauthenticate") = 1 .Fields.Update End With Thanks for all the help.  ------------- Jack of all trades and master of none - I know bits of everything, so in theory I know everything. But in practice I know nothing. |
Posted By: dcowan
Date Posted: 08 January 2006 at 2:57am
Is this still the case for 7.96?
I'm having problems with email activations. I'm running an exchange 2003 server on windows 2003 server (sp1) and hosting my website and forums on the same box.
The error I'm getting when try to resend email activations is:
error '80040211'
/forums/functions/functions_send_mail.asp, line 198
I have tried numberous configurations but am unable to get this to work, any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Darrell ------------- Cheers, Darrell |
-boRg- wrote:Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 09 January 2006 at 11:14am
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This isn't the case with the latest version, 7.96, which does support localhost email servers. If you need to set email authentication then you need to edit the file 'functions/functions_send_mail.asp' and place in the SMTP servers username and password in the variables that are indicated near the top of the file. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |