I just tried registering as a new user to see if any mail was going out - the registration eMail WAS sent - so the program IS working. Just not the forums.

Try repairing your forum table(s). Our emails stopped, I ended up here... eventually tracked down the cron job (tested with the next .x version... emails worked).
SELECT p.id, p.discussion FROM {$CFG->prefix}forum_posts p,
{$CFG->prefix}forum_discussions d
WHERE p.mailed = 0
AND p.discussion = d.id
AND d.timestart > '$now'
Returned: p is corrupt.

Looks like two days ago, the table became corrupted. Not sure why.

We are using mysql 5 (lamp). So repairing was easy. Re-ran the cron.php and 210 email went (40 of them were my test ones!).

Greg

I know this thread is working on two years old, but the topic/subject is the same now.

I was running v1.9.2 as a new instance where posts within the forums were emailing to subscribed users fine. Then stopped. A few have reported getting an email of posts from various forums, but for the most part, most are not.

Last weekend, I was reading where v1.9.3 may be having issues with emails not being sent so upgraded to: Moodle 1.9.4+ (Build: 20090204)

No luck. However, I have found that if I manually run Cron before the time to edit message runs out, the posts will send emails out to all subscribers.

I have another instance of Moodle v1.9.3 running and having no problems whatsoever.

Both installations are on a hosted service, same provider and near as I can tell, with the same server settings/configuration.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,
Steve

under Notifications i saw something that said cron test has not run for 24 hrs. or something like that.
I clicked on it, ran test. All my email then showed up. Not sure if it was coincidental.
Now notification is gone so i cant tell you exactly what it said.

Hey everyone,

I had the same problem as you all for several months. The final solution I came to was to edit the cron job (as is mentioned previously in this thread). Anyway, here are the details of how I got the cron job working. Hopefully this will be helpful to others:


Issue: Moodle doesn't send out e-mail notifications when people post to the forum.

Details:

• When a person is "subscribed" to a Moodle forum, they are supposed to receive e-mails automatically when other people post to that forum. This setting can be enabled/disabled by navigating to the forum as a teacher or admin, clicking "Show/edit" current subscribers, and turning editing on.
  • This screencast shows how to check your forum subscription settings: http://screenr.com/1N1
    
• However, sometimes the users will not receive e-mails even if they are subscribed and people post to the forum.
• (Note, this error may occur even though the registration and password confirmation e-mails ARE being sent out!)

Solution:

It may be that the "cron" job is not executing properly. You have to set it up to execute various times per hour. This is especially important if you migrated or copied the moodle installation from another folder/website!:

• If you have shell access and server control, you can add a cron job by doing the following:
  
  • # crontab -e
    Edit the file that is opened by adding this line and changing the path.
    */5 * * * * /usr/bin/php '/var/www/website3/moodle/admin/cron.php' > /dev/null
    Restart the cron daemon just for good measure
    # cd /etc/init.d
    # crond restart
    
  • (Note: here are some other examples you can use in place of the line beginning with */5 * * * * above)
    • /usr/bin/wget -O - -q "http://doesntexist.com/moodle/admin/cron.php" > /dev/null 2>&1
    • # 40 * * * * wwwrun /usr/bin/php '/srv/www/moodle/admin/cron.php' > /dev/null 2>&1
      
      
• If you are using a hosting service (such as Godaddy) and didn't install moodle through the application manager, you can set the cron settings in your hosting control panel:
  • Log in and go to "My Account->Hosting->Manage Account->Content (dropdown box)->Cron Manager"
  • From here you can create a cron job with the following command:
    • /usr/bin/wget -O - -q "http://doesntexist.com/moodle/admin/cron.php" > /dev/null 2>&1

Hi
I just wanted to share my solution to the cron working only manually with the result that but forum emails not being sent out automatically.
Emails stopped being sent out automatically without any setting changes being made.
One day things were fine and the next students weren't getting mails from the site.

There were no error messages when sending an internal message.
If I clicked forgot password that function worked ok as well.
The cron was checked and it seemed to be fine.
Every day I would have to manually run the cron and then mails would go out.
So today I went I logged into the server and I deleted the cron task.
Then I created a new but identical cron job.
Emails from forums and internal emails started sending automatically again.

I thought that it would be something that there would be no harm done it trying and it was very simple.

FYI here is how I did it.
I logged into my administration panel on my hosting server.
Then I found the place where the cron was set up.
I first copied the cron full url and pasted it in a notepad to keep it safe as it was a very long and complicated url.
Then I deleted the old cron task.
Then I created a new one and pasted in the old url and submitted the new cron task.

I hope I helped someone.
Regards,
Ruth

Hi,
My problem is a little bit different. I could send messages to all students and when they are not online, they can get them via their emails. I mean the mail does work in this case. However, Nobody receive Forum posts via their emails. As I checked through my hosting server, it seems that Forum mail function does not work at all! But there is no errors.

Any suggestion would be appreciated.
Alireza.

Thread is working on many years old, but the topic/subject is the same now…
I read all interventions and followed suggestion but no solution.
And Moodle release is not 1.9 but 2.2.2.

Now I upgraded to Moodle 2.2.2+ (Build: 20120323) so problem is on that release… since nothing has changed
Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS)
MySQL client: 5.5.15
PHP Version 5.3.10

I use both CAS and local authentication and it works correctly.

I've got a problem with forum notification email.
I'm not able to identify the beginning of the problem, actually… it seems to me that it started about on 9th February 2012, when I upgraded from 2.1 to 2.2 but I'm not completely sure.

Roles are defined at system level (not at forum level).
Users do not receive mails at post sending inside forums even if they ARE subscribed.

I tried both with compulsory subscription and non compulsory subscription forums since I read that sometimes with previous Moodle releases that could be the problem but they behave the same.

What happens?
A post is inserted in the forum
mail is sent - cron runs correctly
If I also run it manually it shows it:
"sending post n"
"processing user n"
"12 users were sent post 333" and so on

… but actually only (one of) my user(s) receives mails.
I'm user id 3 in db, that is the first CAS user inside db (user 1 is guest, user 2 is a local admin I created at first).

I already looked around inside forums and Moodle Tracker platform but I didn't find any solution.

I found http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=141218
I verified and my problem is different from those signalled there and solutions are not suitable for my issue

I also found: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-30698
and I thought: "That's it. It seems to me that I've got the same problems with email notifications from forum.
Cron runs correctly, shows user processing and indicates that "n users were sent post idnumber" but only one user receives email notification."

I therefore modified file ../mod/forum/lib.php as suggested, but I didn't solve the problem.

I looked for mail problems as suggested in a post but I get

Mar 25 14:38:25 colab sendmail[32722]: q2PCcOk4032722: to="Sara Valla" <sara.valla@studenti.unipr.it>, ctladdr=sara.valla@unipr.it (48/48), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=relay, pri=142372, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (q2PCcO9b032723 Message accepted for delivery)
Mar 25 14:38:25 colab sendmail[32726]: q2PCcPZ4032726: Authentication-Warning: colab.cce.unipr.it: apache set sender to sara.valla@unipr.it using -f
Mar 25 14:38:25 colab sendmail[32726]: q2PCcPZ4032726: from=sara.valla@unipr.it, size=4362, class="-60", nrcpts=1, msgid=<moodlepost3453@colab.cce.unipr.it>, relay=apache@localhost
Mar 25 14:38:25 colab sendmail[32727]: q2PCcPbR032727: from=<sara.valla@unipr.it>, size=4557, class="-60", nrcpts=1, msgid=<moodlepost3453@colab.cce.unipr.it>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]

and it seems to me that it is ok...

I can't think of any other things to do and cannot solve the problem 

Any further suggestions? Thanks in advance!

Well, here I go adding to this immense thread. 

A faculty member sent an email out of moodle, but it was not received for 44 hours.  The smtp server has no logs related to the time it was sent, but does have activity at the 44 hours later time that the message was received.  What might cause moodle not to communicate with the smtp server?  Note: the smtp server was receiving email from other senders during those times so there is no evidence that the smtp server was down in any way.

hello moodlers,

i'm stuck . I 've read a lot of things about thid problem but it doesn't work out.

My first issue is (and actual) on a Moodle 2.2.2+ (Build: 20120315) installation an hosted platform. 

Problem is users are not receiving mail. In the beginning admin-account received mail but at this moment nothing. I configured gmail as smtp and also edit the portnumber. But still no mail.

For now (because maybe i edited to much) i did an fresh installation from cpanel . Still no mail. Only mail was sent if the admin e.g. sent the user/studentaccount an private message. This is a  default installation.

Please, can someone help me with this? It is been over a few weeks i tried to resolve this with reading and editing but now i'm stucked

I tried de gmail smtp

Still errors, see the attachment.

 

If u need more information i can add this a.s.a.p. 

 

greetings

Marlon

I know that this is an old, old, old thread, but the title explains my problem exactly (well almost)

Settings:

Moodle 2.5 (it was upgraded from 1.9)

Cron is set to run every 5 minutes and is set to wget -q -O /dev/null and http://www.moodelsite.org/admin/cron.php

Forums are set to alert everyone when a new post or reply is added

Emails are sent from Moodle SMTP settings using http://mandrill.com/ (a mail sending and tracking site for free)

If you reset your password, do another action that makes the site send you an email, the site sends you an email

Problem:

When someone creates a new forum/news post it generally (more than 70% of the time) sends out the email to all subscribers notifying them of the new post, but, if someone replies, no one is notified most of the time (I have done tests before, but would estimate this at less than 10% of the time)

I have done some tests today from a test forum, and it does not send out any emails, even when I manually run the cron script? (over and over again)

Past fix to a similar problem:

After updating from 1.9, no emails went out at all from any forum or news post (but they did from reset password), and I found that the user level (e.g. student, etutor) were not replicated into the forums, so although the forum shows how many subscribers you had, they were not subscribed because they don't have a role within the forums. So I needed to re add all users to the forum and this (sort of) fixed it, but now we are using the site more, we are seeing that not all messages are being sent.

Has anyone got any other ideas on how to resolve this?

 

I had a similar issue - emails stopped sending even though no email settings were changed. After a good bit of frustration, I stumbled on an error message in the cron log that said something about the time zone setting. Evidently, setting the time zone to UTC-X (any number) somehow caused the email to fail. Once I changed the timezone setting back to 'server's local time' it immediately started sending the emails again. 

I was suffering the same programming error. Thank you guys.

Hi everyone,

I am going to ask here as it is somewhat related. Cron is working and E-Mails are being sent. It does not matter if gmail.com, hotmail.com, web.de or gmx.de are used, they all work. Here comes the strange part... Some users will not get a E-Mail and some do in the same course. In fact, they do not even appear in the E-Mail Log.

Has anyone also had this problem and fixed it?

We are curently using Moodle Moodle 2.9.3+ (Build: 20151204) runing on Debian 7.11. Our current solution would be to do a clean install of Moodle 3.1 and import our users and courses with a backup so we have a clean install however this will not happen in the next couple of days so until we upgrade it would be nice to have a other solution for this problem.

Thanks for all solution here. I tried most of them but none worked for my case. in My case, forum is sending all notification for Forum and News Forum.

BUT for SITE NEWS no email are sending to any user and server error log showing this error repeatedly.

[17-Oct-2016 09:30:00 America/Los_Angeles] Default exception handler: Can not read file, either file does not exist or there are permission problems Debug: [dataroot]/filedir/26/90/269002a05f5ba287d8f75989ad8b54c93a0173f4
Error code: storedfilecannotread
* line 445 of \lib\filestorage\stored_file.php: file_exception thrown
* line 1967 of \lib\filelib.php: call to stored_file->readfile()
* line 2333 of \lib\filelib.php: call to readfile_accel()
* line 4041 of \lib\filelib.php: call to send_stored_file()
* line 37 of \pluginfile.php: call to file_pluginfile()

[17-Oct-2016 09:37:13 America/Los_Angeles] Default exception handler: Can not read file, either file does not exist or there are permission problems Debug: [dataroot]/filedir/26/90/269002a05f5ba287d8f75989ad8b54c93a0173f4
Error code: storedfilecannotread
* line 445 of \lib\filestorage\stored_file.php: file_exception thrown
* line 1967 of \lib\filelib.php: call to stored_file->readfile()
* line 2333 of \lib\filelib.php: call to readfile_accel()
* line 4041 of \lib\filelib.php: call to send_stored_file()
* line 37 of \pluginfile.php: call to file_pluginfile()

any help Please?

Hello to everyone, here is the solution how to resolve this problem!

Problem i caused by unreliable SMTP connection between moodle and mail server,
so only one or few users from the course group receive mail message, all other mails were: Failed to send due to the following error: "SMTP connect()

The solution is to use local mail system at the same server with Moodle installation.

You only have to set relay mail server address in local mail system (exim4, postfix, at Linux servers), and to leave field SMTP host settings at Moodle empty (default).

Best Regards,

Darko Kozarski