set a forum up for our mtb gang for a laugh, got to grips with it, set it all up and it’s been fine for the last 5/6 months

but recently a few mates we are trying to get into biking have tried to register on the forum but it’s not accepting them… that is…

i am the admin, i have it set-up so when somebody ‘registers’ on the forum they fill out the form, add their username password, email etc then hit register. i as the admin are then suppose to receive an email saying blah-blah has registered click this link to allow them in (so they can post)

for some reason i don’t get the emails??

any ideas?

Which ISP are you with? I run natsmtb.com on yahoo and every so often you will get mail failures.

Have you managed to get rid of the spammers yet? If you drop me a message I’m happy to chat. It took me a while to stop porn filling up the forums!

Hi

just saw your forum, ours is indentical, when you say ISP do you mean the hosting company, its with fasthosts UK.

havent had any spam on the forum??

as the admin i have my crappy yahoo.com acount assigned to recieve emails form people who have registered? cold this be the problem?

how do you PM on here??

cheers

Somewhere in general is a setting for SMTP mail or something, you don’t want that unless you know the settings, and then setting it to no means you can’t use gmail / webmail accounts for the admin address. I think. Worth trying a proper email account in there anyway.

This could be the problem. I put in a ‘mac.com’ address in the admin email address and yahoo/mail systems didn’t like it – it had to be an address that was in the domain that the forum was in (in my case yahoo.co.uk). Don’t set-up an SMTP gateway unless you have been told to do so; let PHP sort that out itself.