EMail And PHP

[madbob]

I have a forum and have a mod installed which will delete inactive users and send them an email of notification.

This has always worked up until the time when all our email accounts etc went through those changes, and now it fails to send the email to them...

This is the error I get...

Failed sending email :: PHP ::

DEBUG MODE

Line : 234
File : emailer.php

The info I got from the PHPbb forums is

If your seeing this error, that means your host must of disabled the sendmail function on the server or just your account. The one thing you should do though is to first talk to your host as to why it was disabled.

All my normal email is working fine though, and people still get the emails when actuially registering on my forum.

Can anybody explain what has happened, and why?... Thanks.

[nolamad]

I'm having the same issue. They did disable email about 3 or 4 months ago - I sent in a request to support and the re-enabled it. However, I'm not sure if they do this on weekends....

[IanS]

Possibly, yet again, the OUTGOING mail filter being too aggressive. See other threads on this.

[madbob]

cheers for that Ian... I don't suppose you could recommend any threads or any possible solutions that you may think will work?.

[IanS]

If I could do that I'd be the most popular person on here! :D

There is a long running thread in this email forum: here (http://forum.powweb.com/showthread.php?t=72816&page=3)

The best course of action is to contact support and ask why the e-mails aren't getting through. I can probably give you the exact answer that you've get, but will leave it to them to prove me wrong :D

Checking with support will rule out other causes such as exceeding limits.

[madbob]

Cheers, I will contact them. It sounds like the outgoing spam filter... I have also found another 4 threads involving email and php here...

Failed sending email :: PHP :: DEBUG MODE Line : 234 File : emailer.php (http://forum.powweb.com/showthread.php?t=71400&highlight=emailer.php)
So can someone fill me in? Why doesn't mass email work anymore with phpBB??? (http://forum.powweb.com/showthread.php?t=51828&highlight=emailer.php)
includes/emailer.php FAİL :(( (http://forum.powweb.com/showthread.php?t=42675&highlight=emailer.php)
PHP site not mailing out now! (http://forum.powweb.com/showthread.php?t=32136&highlight=emailer.php)

Defo an on going problem....

[IanS]

Those threads were mainly from the Legacy system (main reason that they're closed threads) when there was no OUTGOING filter so in those cases the problem would be different. They're all quite old in terms of problems and I don't think they relate to the same issue as here. (The one from Dec 06 may).