Recently, with the arrival of many Russian users, I've become accutely aware of the deficiency in my email setup on the server. Another member pointed it out some weeks ago and I did some work to try to fix it, but to no avail.
I want everyone to be aware that until the issue is solved, fussy email providers will catch all mail from my server and mark it as spam. This means:
- NO account activation email
- NO private message notifications
- NO subscribed thread notifications
- NO site wide emails (not sent any yet, but will send one in a month or two)
- NO emails from the forum software what-so-ever.
Vague tech:
The problem is that replyto, from and returnpath do not match and some email providers filter on this.
Solutions:
- Someone who actually knows what they are doing walks me through it and we fix the setup as it is. (I don't want to allow SSH access to anyone at this time, so I'll be fixing it, but can provide config dumps and run tests etc.)
- Move all mail functions to google's services.
I'm reluctantly making this global such that new members see it before they try to sign up.
If you do not receive your activation email, send one to me (with your username in it) at "fred dot cooke at gmail dot com" and I will fix it for you.
Fred.