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Hi Guys. I know a lot of people had this problem, but neither solution (that I found, actually) worked with me. Everytime a user clicks on the "New User" link and fill up the data, Geeklog does not send his/hers password via e-mail... Mass mailling works perfectly (via the Admin interface)... I've tried to debug the PHP code, but I'm not a PHP programmer (C++ actually), so no luck there... any tips? I'm running Geeklog on Gentoo Linux 1.2, Apache/1.3.27 and Geeklog 1.3.7. Thanks!

Most likely the problem has something to do with PHP's mail() function and/or your mail server. If you're running your own server, first verify that you have the latest software release and patches for the mail server. That may fix the problem. If not, then insert some debugging either right before or after the mail function in the function emailpassword located in users.php. This will allow you to check whether GL is passing the right info to the mail function. You can either do this by sending the output to the error log like this: or to the screen using COM_errorLog (replace 1 with 2) or with an echo statement like this: If you send output to the screen, you probably will want to temporarily comment out this section so you can read it since refreshes are pretty fast. If GL is not passing the right info, then come back and post where it is off. If GL is providing the correct info, then your mail server may not like something in the mail line. Start off with a very simple script like this and run it outside GL: Keep building onto it slowly (and run it) until it looks like the one you're having problems with. You don't really need the echo statements, but I use them because otherwise the page is blank. This should help isolate what your mail server doesn't like so you can modify the mail line in GL. It's a good idea to send multiple messages to a few different addresses to see if all, a portion, or none are being delivered.

I recently helped someone troubleshoot an email problem. His was kinda weird. All emails were being delivered except for those sent from someone's profile. Some addresses never received any emails while others received only a subset. It turned out to be a combination of a problem on his email server plus having a "to" name in the mail line.

Hope this gives you some ideas on how to solve your problem.