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users are haveing promblems to recover passwords.. :/

Dave
#1 2011-12-13 04:34

Hello. Im runing the site based on cotonti for some time now. I started from cot, w/o converting from sed or any other cms.

There are some Inactive users, its like some users recived activation link, some didint... Some acount remain innactive (272 members and 91 innactive)

I never noticed that problem, could any1 guide me? "where, how or what"? Also the pass recover doesnt work at all..

my host uses:

PHP : 5.3.3-7+squeeze3
Zend : 2.3.0

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small update, i used t3-postman to "force" site to send again activation link, after fe hours my admin mail me that he has alot mails with "failed to deliver"...

One more thing

how could i "reload", i mean create again fp_html from fp_text? from the "digging" i did i think it cannot be done from sql, any tip where i could search my answer?

does the "Clear HTML cache" does the job?!

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This post was edited by Dave (2011-12-13 22:25, 12 years ago)
GHengeveld
#2 2011-12-13 23:51

As for the email configuration I can't really help you, it's not my expertise.

As for the fp_html you can just empty this field and it will be recreated from fp_text as soon as the post is viewed on the site. Remember to do a database backup before you start messing around with phpMyAdmin.

Clear HTML cache is not related to the fp_html field. This is for XTemplate. You see XTemplate generates HTML from the .tpl files and tags. It will save this HTML to disk so it won't have to regenerate the HTML every time the page is loaded.

Trustmaster
#3 2011-12-14 14:03

It seems like something is wrong with outgoing email. There are several things to check.

1. Go to Administration / Configuration / Main settings and check if Administrator's email is correct. Some hosts may require it to be from the same domain as your site.

2. Create a script called "mailtest.php", upload it to your site and run it in the browser. The example contents of the script is:

<?php
if (mail('your_email_address@domain.com', 'Testing sendmail', 'If this email does not arrive, then it is a host problem')) echo 'OK';
else echo 'Error';
?>

See if it prints "OK" or "Error" on the screen. Wait for a while check the mailbox you specified in the 1st argument in the script. If the letter doesn't arrive within an hour, then PHP + sendmail isn't properly configured on your host or isn't allowed.

3. Ask your admin about the reason of delivery failure. It is provided in most cases of failure.

Correction: "Clear HTML cache" indeed clears fp_html and other similar fields, it is not related to XTemplate.

May the Source be with you!
Dave
#4 2011-12-14 23:36

Thants for the attention :)

ad. 1. its not from the same domain... ill contact my admin about t hat...

ad. 2. Just did it, saw "OK" thing and few sec l8er e-mail came to me:

od: 	 www-data <www-data@toster.net>    
Czwartek, 15 Grudnia 2011 00:30
temat: 	 Testing sendmail

If this email does not arrive, then it is a host problem

ad. 3. he thinks that users set wrong e-mail adres while they register

Like i posted before, useing T3-Postman ive send e-mails to INNACTIVE users with activation_link, my admin send me back these wich werent delivered(8 out of 91):

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <mailer-daemon@googlemail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 06:13:06 +0000
Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
To: www-data@toster.net

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

    jasiumarkiewicz@interia.pl

Technical details of permanent failure:
Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the
recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for
further information about the cause of this error. The error that the
other server returned was: 550 550 5.2.1 Mailbox not available / Konto
niedostepne (state 14).

----- Original message -----

Received: by 10.14.5.200 with SMTP id 48mr1137872eel.45.1323756785600;
       Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:13:05 -0800 (PST)
Return-Path: <www-data@toster.net>
Received: from magnet.tost.ad (078088186075.stk.vectranet.pl. [78.88.186.75])
       by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m53sm2868459eeb.8.2011.12.12.22.13.04
       (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER);
       Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:13:04 -0800 (PST)
Received: from www-data by magnet.tost.ad with local (Exim 4.72)
       (envelope-from <www-data@toster.net>)
       id 1RaIyP-0003AM-V9
       for jasiumarkiewicz@interia.pl; Tue, 13 Dec 2011 04:24:09 +0100
To: jasiumarkiewicz@interia.pl
Subject: slrr.toster.net - aktywacja konta
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 03:24:09 +0000
From: "david_69@wp.pl" <www-data@toster.net>
Message-ID: <cbd1184a7613e1a617cfc07a93c5e2a4@slrr.toster.net>
X-Priority: 3
X-Mailer: PHPMailer [version 1.73]
X-Mailer: T3 PostMan v1.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"


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GHengeveld
#5 2011-12-14 23:54

If people register with an nonexistent email address they will of course not be able to validate their account and because of that the account will remain inactive. You can't do anything about that, except regularly remove inactive accounts.

Thanks for the correction, I neglected to check what the Clear HTML cache feature actually does and just assumed it was for XTemplate cache. You see even I don't know sometimes :)

Dave
#6 2011-12-15 00:10

yes but its like 9 of 91 users, others probably get mails when i used t3-postman, for now ill stick with that

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urlkiller
#7 2011-12-15 00:36

i have quite good results when simply adding hidden (put them in a div style="dispaly:none;") inputs and call them prename, surname, adress etc. like that

now comes the trick.
you have to check if they got filled out,
if they got filled out you can be 80% sure it was a bot

a regular user wont see the field and thus cannot enter anything...
its not a 100% solution but as i said it works for me quite good. i never had one bot registering @ my site since then

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