Re: The Board
Posted: 03 Nov 2010 19:08
You know, the support emails are set to go to Rag. Could that have anything to do with it?
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As among ourselves, yes. But the registering users should still get their own emails.Freakzilla wrote:You know, the support emails are set to go to Rag. Could that have anything to do with it?
I will, but it made it sound like this option was just for tech problems...Omphalos wrote:As among ourselves, yes. But the registering users should still get their own emails.Freakzilla wrote:You know, the support emails are set to go to Rag. Could that have anything to do with it?
Why don't you change that so that they go to you, so that you will be notified each time someone tries to register?
Contact e-mail address:
This address will be used whenever a specific contact point is needed, e.g. spam, error output, etc. It will always be used as the From and Reply-To address in e-mails.
Return e-mail address:
This will be used as the return address on all e-mails, the technical contact e-mail address. It will always be used as the Return-Path and Sender address in e-mails.
Shit man, didn't I HAVE that in ANNOUNCEMENTS?SandChigger wrote:Is that "necrophiliac"-something-or-other email address posted around here somewhere? Maybe a shtucky/pinned announcement-like thingy with it here in this forum? Thread title: "HAVING TROUBLE REGISTERING? LOOK HERE!"
You shouldn't have to be but the guys you bring here are ALWAYS winners!I totally DO NOT MIND people contacting me (just to make that clear!), but it increases the time it takes to get them onboard. (I think his email came through around 11:00 last night, but I'd already gone upstairs to read in bed, so I didn't see it until 6:00 or so this morning.)
I'm here every day... unless incarcerated. But that happens less and less as I learn life lessons.It'd be cool if we could always be quicker at it than Dune Novels at least.
With good reason.Serkanner wrote:New search engine Blekko gives Jacurutu as number one hit for Dune Forum ... .... dunenovels = 6th
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Any help is appreciated.Shaitan wrote:I've run into similar issues with most board engines at one time or another. Email servers/services, particularly the SMTP side of things, can get very wonky. If I had a dollar for every hour I've lost debugging Sendmail and Qmail over the years....
In my experience it's usually more reliable to use a PHP/Perl/Python/etc script running on the same web server as the forum to send out automated registration emails and such. Preferably the script is locked down to only accept requests passed to it from the forum engine, nothing and no one else. A very simple PHP script has served me very well on my various phpBB and vBulletin forums handling outgoing registration emails for many years now uninterrupted.
As I said it's been a long time since I dug up the configuration I'm using with my own forums, I haven't built any new ones with standalone forum engines in a few years now (only complete CMSes like Wordpress using forum/discussion plugins secondary to the CMS's centralized email functionality) and haven't had any problem with the script that I've been using unless one of my fellow sysadmins changed something that I'm forgetting about in the meantime.Freakzilla wrote:Any help is appreciated.Shaitan wrote:I've run into similar issues with most board engines at one time or another. Email servers/services, particularly the SMTP side of things, can get very wonky. If I had a dollar for every hour I've lost debugging Sendmail and Qmail over the years....
In my experience it's usually more reliable to use a PHP/Perl/Python/etc script running on the same web server as the forum to send out automated registration emails and such. Preferably the script is locked down to only accept requests passed to it from the forum engine, nothing and no one else. A very simple PHP script has served me very well on my various phpBB and vBulletin forums handling outgoing registration emails for many years now uninterrupted.
The user/password fields obviously corresponding to the information for the GMail account.teh article wrote:In phpBB Admin panel, go to General Admin > Configuration > Email Settings
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I'm not entirely opposed to the idea. If I could figure out how to do it.SandRider wrote:look, the little baby jesus knows that for the most part I am a firm believer in Freedom of Speech &etc, &etc ...
but I really do think there should be a "You Must Be This Tall to Begin A Thread" rule ....
I believe registering and Posting Privileges should be automatic w/o Admin approval -
the work the admins have to do knocking out Singapore Spammers doesn't equal
the inhospitably to new recruits of not allowing them to post as soon as they have
discovered the sietch - most of those people were most likely driven here like all
of us, the stench of the Burning Stupidity of Corporate McDune that has covered the
entire Plain of Arrakeen, and the relief of finally locating the hiding-place of the
Last True Friends of Frank often makes them want to express that right away ...
but is there not a way to turn off the "Start a New Topic" option for each member ?
and only turn it on when a recruit has proven they are not :
a> a dipshit
b> a shitheel
c> a core member of Spanky McDune's Legion of Official Fucktards
d> internet-ignorant & a discussion forum virgin
just sayin' ....
SandChigger wrote:People couldn't start their own self-introduction threads that way...
how much more hostile do we seem when some one who is thread-starting happy annoys the Brethren until they begin to post replysThing wrote: Until then, I don't see the point of doing something that just makes us look even more hostile to new members than we are.
*Out-freynlotek wrote:thanks to Askaris for pointing me in the right direction
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so it seems you need to create groups with differents rights and access, and then just edit those
So we could have
- newcomers
- sietch tested members
- mods and admins
Nothing too elitist there, I must say that for the sake of lisibility dumb topics should not be allowed.
After all, if we take the dumb too, what's left to byron to play with ?
I got it.lotek wrote:too much spacing guild cakes sorry
I'll repost !
Don't you mean this? search.php?search_id=newpostsFreakzilla wrote:Can we get the "unread posts" button like at Worm's? Is that part of the new boardware upgrade?
Its there. Probably just a thing with the skin you're using.Freakzilla wrote:Can we get the "unread posts" button like at Worm's? Is that part of the new boardware upgrade?