Hi there,

first of all many thanks @Ron for this nice piece of work. It works just fine on our forums (www.aqua-computer.de) when sending "lost password"- and registration-emails, but the email notification on new post is still troubling me. When posting in threads where other users obviously have activated email notifications, the following error occurs:

SMTP Error 535: Authentication failed<br /><br />Mail Server communication log:<br />220 mrelayng.kundenserver.de ESMTP Tue, 28 Sep 2004 14:20:48 +0200 <br />250 mrelayng.kundenserver.de Hello 213-133-123-22.clients.your-server.de [213.133.123.22] <br />334 VXNlcm5hbWU6 <br />334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6 <br />235 Authentication succeeded <br />250 <webmaster@aqua-computer.de> is syntactically correct <br />250 <l.moeller@muenster.de> is syntactically correct <br />354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself <br />250 OK id=1CCGyO-000483-00 <br />220 mrelayng.kundenserver.de ESMTP Tue, 28 Sep 2004 14:20:48 +0200 <br />250 mrelayng.kundenserver.de Hello 213-133-123-22.clients.your-server.de [213.133.123.22] <br />334 VXNlcm5hbWU6 <br />334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6 <br />535 Incorrect authentication data <br />

Again, the forum successfully sends emails on registration etc. My knowledge in this matter is rather small, but it seems to me that the mailserver accepts the authentication in the first step an later rejects the same authentication data.

Any help or guesses would be appreciated.

oggols04 wrote on Oct 1^st, 2004 at 6:49pm:

That error is a response from the smtp subroutine that it cannot connect to port 25 of the assigned smtp server, which could mean it is either blocked or at the address/domainname you entered for smtp server there isn't one running.

yes the smtp security is the problem since my host changed how they handle my smtp.  I was told to use "localhost" as the smtp server to allow my cgi to email from my domain.  I did this with my postcard direct program and that now works fine.  But trying to do this in Yabb has totally failed.  I tried many things, but after a week no such success.

oggols04 wrote on Oct 1^st, 2004 at 11:22pm:

With our without this mod setting smtp server to localhost (or ip address 127.0.0.1) and setting send mail using SMTP should work in YaBB.
Certainly if it works with the postcard script too.
I don't think smtp authorisation is required yet on most localhost smtp services (allthough my server requires it in the latest version)

Ron, oh Ron,

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For most I am sure this is true, but as for me it is not.  I fixed my problem and figured I'd post here in case anyone else ran into this also.

Again it was "SERVER ERROR: Could not connect to  at port  ! " and I had to use localhost as my smtp server.

But the port is usally 25 by default?

So "my $port = 25;" right.

So I loaded up my test board (clean 1.3.2) and put in the "my $port = 25;" doesn't work (it just times out)

So I loaded up my test board (clean 1.3.1) and put in the "my $port = 25;" doesn't work (it just times out)

Then I load up my real board (1.3.2) with SMTP Authorization V2 Mod and woooooooooooo, I got mail!!!!

Now this has nothing to do with the authoriztion part of the mod (since it's not needed), it just added a little better "talk" to the smtp server which made it work (Not sure but that's what I got from looking a the code).

So I just hope this helps some else and saves them a few weeks.  And thanks to Ron for the mod

Need to thank Peter Sundstrom http://www.ginini.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=pd for his help.  He went above and beyond the call of duty to help me.

Hey all, Im new at the whole forum hosting scene, and before I get asking I should explain my situation. I am using YaBB 1 Gold - SP 1.3.2. My web-server is hosted from home and therefor I do not have to "upload" files to have them hosted. I am using Apache 2.0.46 with Perl 5.8.0. My e-mail server is ArGoSoft Mail Server Pro 1.8.6.0.

Now that that is out of the way here are my problems.

I have successfully installed (via BoardMod) the following:
edit_profile_during_registraton.mod
SMTP_authentication.mod

I have tried to install (and failed):
forum_staff_info_SP13.mod
report_to_moderator_sp.mod
amm_sp131_15.mod
globalmod22.mod *?*

Now, although SMTP authentication is enabled and working on the board, when I try to register an account my server comes back with this error:
"Transmission did not end with a "." on a line by itself. Disconnecting... "

Please help me out?

I just installed the SMTP MOD with no errors. Now I get the following error after I answer an post:
SERVER ERROR: Could not connect to  at port  !

What should I check?

Thanks,
Bill