Yeah, I saw it. I am all over the place on different boards trying to figure it out.
My board is at
http://www.mylesrockwell.com/ubb/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi Here are some of the things I have found on other threads about the problem:
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Change email type to send as HTML instead of Text:
Check your email settings from the control panel. Be sure you chose either HTML or plain text in the last choice in the set. Also, be sure there is a choice made for each option in email settings except SMTP server if you are using sendmail. Make sure to hit Updated changes.
Go back to your Email control panel - at the very bottom there is the HTML or Text EMail selection. Make sure one of those is selected.
Make sure that the two email addresses that you have entered into your control panel are valid email addresses from that domain. That's the one most people get wrong. If they are valid then ask your host to configure their server to allow free relay ONLY!!! from the IP address on which yur website resides. The stock UBB scripts do not provide for authorization or logon to smtp servers. Ask your host to allow smtp relay from the ip of your site. Otherwise, you would have to write a script for your setup. The stock UBB scripts do not provide for authorization or logon to smtp servers. Ask your host to allow smtp relay from the ip of your site. Otherwise, you would have to write a script for your setup. Check
www.ubbdev.com for help.
I think there is a minor bug here cause when I turned off the e-mail features and then on, it got fixed.
I reuploaded vars_email.cgi to the cgi directory and just for the heck of it tried the /usr/sendmail/ thing again. (In ASCII)
If your host is Win32 and doesn't allow you to send mail out using their SMTP server (not your ISPs, THEIR server), find one that does.
The only way I can get email functions to work is if I use mail.mailsender.net as my smtp-server, since that's some random smtp server I found that allows relaying.
In the routing restrictions tab in Exchange, you must specify the webserver's IP address followed by a netmask of 255.255.255.255. This will tell Exchange to forbid relaying to anyone else but the webserver, and users should be able to get emails from the ubb.
Ensure that your SMTP server will allow free relay from the IP address that the board sits on. Also ensure that it will send to people not on a control list. I suspect your SMTP requires authentication before sending or relaying mail. This will not do because the UBB has no facility to log in and authenticate. When that is true a relay exception rule can usually be instituted to allow the UBB to send. If it is written correctly the SMTP server will still be secure from SPAM relaying.
The problem was one of my co-workers had set the relay settings under Directory Security to Deny All, without granting an exception for the local box. I added the box's IP as an exception and it worked fine.
I solved the problem!!! UBB is not issueing HELO/EHLO. On my mail server that was a requirement and I had to turn it off to make the board work.
Anyone who has servers with open relays is asking for trouble. Spammers will find them and then use them.
You should just bite the bullet and get a virtual host or a dedicated server so you can keep the entire site on the same server.
75 times out of 100 the problem is exactly as Graeme said.... the regstration email address entered into the registration settings page is one that is not a valid email address on the SMTP server.
As for the other 25? Incorrect SMTP server entered or a server that will not accept a relay request from the UBB.
Your SMTP server must be able to accept email on a standard port 25 connection and relay it to any address. The from line is always an address specified in the CP (one of two possibilities). So only those addresses need to be accepted as from addresses. However, you SHOULD be filtering on source IP address rather than email address in terms of relay restrictions. NOTE: a server requiring POP before SMTP is not suitable.
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I think my problem has to do with relay restrictions on the server. NT4, Eudora Worldmail. This is crazy because it all worked fine with the UBB 5.
