phpgedview-talk

[Phpgedview-talk] Internet Messaging with Email

[<den...@ur...>]

I have Preferred Contact Method set to "Internet Messaging with Email". It 
works great if someone wants to contact me, but I am not getting emails 
when someone tries to sign up for a new account.

I think I can handle logging in a few times a week, except when I am traveling.

Thank you!!!
Dennis

At 09:16 PM 3/9/2005, you wrote:
>Hi Dennis,
>concerning gedcom I'm afraid I can't help you.
>
>Concerning getting emails:
>there is an option somewhere, I think somewhere in the config, where you 
>can define
>whether you want to be contacted solely through your website (internal 
>message, appears in "MyGedview") or both internal AND email.
>
>Regards,
>Heike

Re: [Phpgedview-talk] Internet Messaging with Email

[waldo k. <wki...@al...>]

den...@ur... wrote:
> I have Preferred Contact Method set to "Internet Messaging with Email". 
> It works great if someone wants to contact me, but I am not getting 
> emails when someone tries to sign up for a new account.

i ran into this problem, too... i ended up installing my own SMTP server but due to other circumstances, have had to 
readjust and not use it for all of what it can do... instead, i'm looking at incorporating the phpBB SMTP.PHP code into 
phpGEDview... i've gotten quite a bit of the stuff needed in place but have not had time to work further on it in the 
last week or so... the incorporation is not simple as i'm having to learn how phpGEDview does its work as well as 
chasing down the flow of the SMTP code from phpBB... i've not gone as far as also using phpBB's emailer class code and 
likely won't... currently, my plans are to try to get this working for my stuff and then submit it to the phpGEDview 
group for the needed additions to the configuration code section as some stuff needs to be set in the config file(s)... 
who knows, though... i may be able to wade thru all that and get that code in place, too, before submitting it...

i don't have any problems and would actually love to see the phpGEDview folk take the phpBB SMTP code and work it into 
phpGEDview... especially since they already know how their code flows and is structured... what i've done i did in about 
30 minutes or so on a friday night after a few beverages... i've gotta get into the right state of mind to tackle this 
further...

using the phpBB SMTP code should not be a problem, either, since both are open source projects... i believe that both 
are also GPL'd... i know that phpBB is but would have to take another look at the phpGEDview stuff to verify... either 
way, i have to do something as using php's mail() function doesn't work on all setups and i believe that a choice to use 
the mail() function or direct SMTP is a great benefit to phpGEDview... the mail() function is already wrapped in 
phpGEDview with another function and my incorporation has simply been to check a variable at the end of that wrapper 
function to determine if mail() should be called or the SMTP code... there is a tad more stuff that has to be done but 
it should not be all that major... i may already have it all done and simply need to prefix the call(s) with @ so the 
errors don't show...

thoughts? ideas? support? should i go ahead and toss in what i've already done??

-- 
        _\/
       (@@)                      Waldo Kitty, Waldo's Place USA
__ooO_( )_Ooo_____________________ telnet://bbs.wpusa.dynip.com
_|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____ http://www.wpusa.dynip.com
____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____ ftp://ftp.wpusa.dynip.com
_|_Eat_SPAM_to_email_me!_YUM!__|_____|_____ wkitty42 -at- alltel.net

Re: [Phpgedview-talk] Internet Messaging with Email

[Hermit <klo...@ci...>]

waldo kitty wrote:
> den...@ur... wrote:
> 
>> I have Preferred Contact Method set to "Internet Messaging with 
>> Email". It works great if someone wants to contact me, but I am not 
>> getting emails when someone tries to sign up for a new account.
> 
> 
> i ran into this problem, too... 

What os are you running?   Most servers have a 'default' smtp app.  May be the 
easist way to go.    Just don't run it in daemon mode and you avoid alot of 
headaches.

Ken

Re: [Phpgedview-talk] Internet Messaging with Email

[waldo k. <wki...@al...>]

Hermit wrote:
> waldo kitty wrote:
> 
>> den...@ur... wrote:
>>
>>> I have Preferred Contact Method set to "Internet Messaging with 
>>> Email". It works great if someone wants to contact me, but I am not 
>>> getting emails when someone tries to sign up for a new account.
>>
>> i ran into this problem, too... 
> 
> What os are you running?   Most servers have a 'default' smtp app.  May 
> be the easist way to go.    Just don't run it in daemon mode and you 
> avoid alot of headaches.

i'm running IBM's OS/2... i am the sysadmin... the machine in question has sendmail but i've not set it up due to all 
the problems that sendmail has had... instead, i've installed weasel for smtp mail capabilities but due to other needs, 
it forwards all mail to an internal smtp server which is specialized for one domain and rejects all mail not destined 
for that domain... so, i cannot use weasel to the fullest capability that it has, at this time... when i set weasel up 
in the normal fashion and have it forward all mail to my smarthost, everything works a treat but then mail to that 
special internal domain can't be delivered... this is due, in part, to the necessity of running that other smtp server 
on a non-standard port...

the best solution, in my case, is to have my apps do direct smtp to my smarthost rather than to my smtp server... phpBB 
does this (after i corrected a minor problem with the name presented in the HELO and/or EHLO) as well as several other 
php based apps... those that rely on the php mail() function can't work due to the problem with my smtp mail setup that 
cannot be resolved at this time...

thus, adding direct SMTP capability to those apps that need it offers the best all around capability...

-- 
        _\/
       (@@)                      Waldo Kitty, Waldo's Place USA
__ooO_( )_Ooo_____________________ telnet://bbs.wpusa.dynip.com
_|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____ http://www.wpusa.dynip.com
____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____ ftp://ftp.wpusa.dynip.com
_|_Eat_SPAM_to_email_me!_YUM!__|_____|_____ wkitty42 -at- alltel.net