"External" emails not recieving forum mail

"External" emails not recieving forum mail

by Adam Barnhart -
Number of replies: 6
It recently came to my attention that our forums are not sending notifications to external email addresses.  Eg:

joebob@iliff.edu - Recieves emails from the forum

joebob@aol.com; hotmail.com; yahoo.com; etc - Does not recieve emails from the forum

Is this a problem with my php.ini?  Am I not addressing the correct SMTP address?  These are my only guesses.

Thanks!
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Re: "External" emails not recieving forum mail

by Dan Balzer -
I am also having the same problem with my Moodle course.  No email notifications are being received from the forums.  I'd appreciate any insight.

Dan
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Re: "External" emails not recieving forum mail

by Gavin Allinson -

http://www.mysite.com/admin/cron.php

try putting this into the browser with mysite being your site address

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Re: "External" emails not recieving forum mail

by Matt Molloy -

I'm having the same problem. Your suggestion will work, but I cannot get the cron to do it automatically. I have uninstalled/reinstalled the cron several times. Occasionally, it will send mails automatically, but I mostly have to do it the way you suggested.

Matt

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Re: "External" emails not recieving forum mail

by koen roggemans -
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If you have a Cpanel server with an MX-record pointing to another server then localhost, it's one of the not-so-wellknown-bugs of Cpanel. I'll look it up again if that's the case.
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Re: "External" emails not recieving forum mail

by Dan Balzer -
Yes, I am using a Cpanel server.  Do you have anymore information on how to correct this bug?

Dan