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Well, I only have access to the HTTP logs, and no errors showed up there.  It seems unlikely that they'd identify one directory as a source of spam after less than six emails.  I did make a copy of the entire WP directory in a different place, and tried it again from there, but it made no difference, so the directory path doesn't seem to make a difference.

After testing, I do note that the MTA my host is using is Exim, which is reputed to have problems with php mail(), owing to the default Sendmail flags (supposedly, though as I said, my PHP mailer appears to be working -- the mail just seems to come from somewhere other than my domain, since this is a virtual server.)   The only apparent difference is that I don't use the "@" operator.  Red herring?

Addendum:
Okay, for an extra freaky twist to this, I just deleted a test account, and the rather snarky deletion message I wrote to myself went through.  Perhaps there is a sarcasm filter at work, and insufficiently insulting messages don't get through.  I think I'll look at that code side-by-side, now...

Addendum+1: Acceptance messages for registration are going through.  Password recovery still isn't, and as I said, attempts to register give a "Not Working" message, but none of the other mail functions return an error.  ???????????  The code looks exactly the same to me.  Perhaps it needs exorcism.

Addendum +2: just got a password recovery message, about five minutes delayed.  Okay, that's working.  Now I need to figure out what's different about the registration Email.  Out of curiousity, why IS an Email being sent out on registration when I've got the board set for Admin approval?  I think I see it.  Line 490, that If statement checks if approval is set to "no"  That check falls through, the Email is never sent, and because of that, $mail_sent is FALSE, and therefore the mail was not sent (matter of fact, it was never even composed.)  I don't have "Force" set, so I'm ALWAYS going to get that "Mailer Not Working" message.

Okay, Force and Approval are mutually exclusive, so it seems that the "force" test could go inside the "approval" conditional.
Let's try something:

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$mail_sent = FALSE;
                if ($cfg['approval'] == 'no') {
                        // Send e-mail
                        $mail_subject = $cfg['op_title'].' '.$langop_verreg_title;
                        $mail = "{$langop_word_dear} {$username},\n\n{$langop_verreg_p1} {$cfg['op_title']} @ {$cfg['op_url']}. {$langop_verreg_p2}:\n\n{$cfg['op_url']}/functions.php?mode=Verify&vcode={$userpass1}&username=".urlencode($username)."\n\n{$langop_verreg_p3}\n\n{$langop_precover_p5}";
                        $mail_header = "From: \"OekakiPoteto Admin\" <{$cfg['op_email']}>\nX-Mailer: Wacintaki BBS\n";

                        if (CUT_EMAIL < 1) {
                                $mail_sent = @mail ($email, $mail_subject, $mail, $mail_header);
                        }

                        if (!$mail_sent) {
                                if ($cfg['approval'] == 'force') {
                                        // Auto-approve
                                        $theflags = 'G';
                                        if ($cfg['reg_draw'] == 'yes')
                                                $theflags .= 'D';
                                        if ($cfg['reg_anim'] == 'yes')
                                                $theflags .= 'M';
                                        if ($cfg['reg_upload'] == 'yes')
                                                $theflags .= 'U';

                                        $result = mysql_query ("UPDATE {$OekakiPoteto_MemberPrefix}oekaki SET usrflags='$theflags' WHERE usrname='$username'");
                                } else {
                                        // D'OH!
                                        report_err('Sorry, the BBS e-mailer isn\'t working. You\'ll have to wait for your application to be approved.');
                                }
                        }
                }

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Seem like that would work?  Actually, it could (maybe should) go inside the CUT_EMAIL test if I understand the function of CUT_EMAIL correctly.  Yes?

Last addendum:  I notice there's no message in the english.php to the effect of "Your registration has been submitted the the administrator for approval.  Once your application has been reviewed, you will be notified by Email."

Would that be a good thing?

Last edited by ponyhome (07-08-2006 21:46:34)