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First let me say GL is awsome. I recently switched my GL installation over to an entirely new server. I couldn't get sendmail running on the new machine so I went with another 3rd part app, with a gui, Mail Express Pro. When I try to send mail to users from the "mail users" site function Mail Express says they fail. However new user registration email works well, although with one glitch - I'll get to that in a bit. GL seems to be passing the site mail recipients in the following format: Name <email@email.com> And it appears Mail Express doesn't know what to do with that. What has happened here? The little glitch is that Mail Express can send to all new users except aol.com addresses. What is up with that? Thanks in advance. Kane Lauck karnac@mac.com www.freshlymixed.com

So far, I only heard of IIS having problems with the "Name <email@address>" format, but if that is more wide-spread we may need to change that ... Here's a fix: In admin/mail.php find the line that starts with if (!mail($til, stripslashes ($vars['subject']), ... and replace the "$til" with "$A['email']", i.e. if (!mail($A['email'], stripslashes ($vars['subject']), ... See if that helps. As for AOL - their spam filters seem to catch quite a few legit mails as well. Does anyone have an idea what exactly they may not like in Geeklog's emails? bye, Dirk

AOL intensified their spam fighting efforts in the past few months. They will no longer accept any email coming from residential mail servers or ones with dynamically assigned IPs. Here's some info on the subject. They have also started suing spammers in court. We may see more and more ISPs go the same route as pressure builds up from customers to do something.

In the US, our Congress has also taken a renewed interest in this issue. According to the news reporters here, it's because spam now makes up about 45% of all email today and everyone is complaining about it. Who knows what kind of new legislation we'll end up with here which may or may not make it harder for email to be sent out from certain servers.

Before you assume AOL doesn't like something in the email Geekog is producing, I think you might want to survey those who are having problems with AOL to see if they fall into this category. If they do, I think the only way around it would be to add an option for them to send email via their ISP's SMTP connection. If everyone is having this same problem then most likely it's the headers. This would require some experimenting on which ones it either doesn't like or missing and wants to see.

Winner. that works great. thanks Dirk. yeah i fixed my aol problem by routing those recipients to a static smtp server.

The suggested change didn't help me either... That is, no password is sent upon registration of a new user. However, both before and after I made the suggested change, one could send Emails via the user profile based form. That works fine.

I am having the same issue -- when someone registers with the site, no email is sent. If I look in /var/log/syslog, I see the following line: Jun 9 20:15:14 lancelot sendmail[26278]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(apache): can not write to queue directory /var/spool/clientmqueue/ (RunAsGid=0, required=209): Permission denied Any ideas?

I am having the same difficulty but with several isps, my mail is being blocked as \"spam\" becuase I am hosting my website on my residential dsl connection with my own apache box. My site will never get going if I cannot find a way to work around this. PLEASE HELP!!!