Re: [CGUYS] SMTP server app?
>Thanks, but these are both forum functions and they don't seem to be >options (nor mods) in vBulletin. vBulletin is written in PHP so you should be able to modify anything you like. I would think adding parameters to a SendMail call would be a very simple modification. * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] SMTP server app?
Thanks, but these are both forum functions and they don't seem to be options (nor mods) in vBulletin. > 1. Set up PHP or whatever to invoke people's local email (like a mailto: > link will) to send to that user's email address on your hosting site. > > 2. Set the Sender: field to be a local hosting account for this purpose. > Many mailing lists set the From: and Reply-To: to be the individual user's > email address, but have to set the Sender: field to be the mailing list, so > that the mail will go out successfully. * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] SMTP server app?
On Jan 16, 2008 2:05 PM, Tony B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, my host has smtp. But like pretty much ALL hosts these days, they > no longer allow 'relaying' or whatever it's called. > > I can create 1000 email accounts and they'll all work fine. But when a > forum member clicks a button "send email to this (other) user", PHP > mail() sends it with *their* registered return email address, it does > NOT come from an account I've set up. So it gets rejected. Right now I > just have email features turned off. All forum 'business' email works > fine since it all comes from _my_ account. But that really wouldn't > work for people emailing each other. > > Here are some choices: 1. Set up PHP or whatever to invoke people's local email (like a mailto: link will) to send to that user's email address on your hosting site. 2. Set the Sender: field to be a local hosting account for this purpose. Many mailing lists set the From: and Reply-To: to be the individual user's email address, but have to set the Sender: field to be the mailing list, so that the mail will go out successfully. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] SMTP server app?
Yes, my host has smtp. But like pretty much ALL hosts these days, they no longer allow 'relaying' or whatever it's called. I can create 1000 email accounts and they'll all work fine. But when a forum member clicks a button "send email to this (other) user", PHP mail() sends it with *their* registered return email address, it does NOT come from an account I've set up. So it gets rejected. Right now I just have email features turned off. All forum 'business' email works fine since it all comes from _my_ account. But that really wouldn't work for people emailing each other. Sorry, I cannot login with Putty right now. It wants a username and password and I'm just too damn used to using Roboform and I really don't want to hassle with trying to find the darn login. The forum's admin control panel tells me it's "Linux, Apache 2.0.6.1 (cgi)" if that helps. I vaguely remember reading on their forum they use Posix(?). Again, if this is a lot of trouble, fighting spam or otherwise, I'll just leave emails turned off. Members can still PM each other and they can subscribe to instant email notifications of PMs (which come from my [EMAIL PROTECTED] account). * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] SMTP server app?
Since you have jailed access you will have some potential difficulty installing anything not already installed. I am a confused though - it sounds as though the forum host already is running an SMTP server. Is that the case or are you saying that the HOSTING organization runs a SMTP server, but the specific SERVER that runs your forum does not? In any event - log into your jailed ssh access and run: uname -a That should spit back what flavor of *nix you are running. Most likely it comes with an SMTP service already present. I think we need more details before can provide substantive help. On Jan 16, 2008, at 10:56 AM, Tony B wrote: I recently discovered on my online forum that email no longer works user-user because the host's SMTP server requires a valid From: addy. The only solution presented so far has been to set up my own SMTP server. But googling has been fairly fruitless, only turning up a ton of Windows apps and some old stuff at Sourceforge. Anyone have any suggestions for me for something simple? It's a shared host, I'm not exactly sure what type of *nix it runs, but it's got PHP5 and MySQL (4 I think). And I only have jailed ssh access. Or was my first impulse right and it's a crazy idea to try to do smtp on my own? * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived
Re: [CGUYS] SMTP server app?
>Or was my first impulse right and it's a crazy idea to try to do smtp on >my own? It is so cheap to get a different host. I would not bother setting up a server. Then you may find that yoru server has restrictions put on it too. And last but not least, managing an SMTP server is 90% spam fighting. Do you want to do that? * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived
