If you're interested, I put together this avatar collection which will save you a lot of work...

http://bunkerhollow.com/files/folders/images/entry560.aspx 

 

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When I post fp:mddubs in a topic, I'm leaving my footprint there so I can track it once I get into coding/supporting. (Yes I stole this off Mek 🙂, who stole this off Ederon 🙂 )

Yes I'm interested in your offer to help me.

Go check out my forum. I came up with some great graphics for the board.

Thank you

hmm I can't find the readme file. It must have not been pack into the version of the zip file that I have.

I downloaded the avatar zip files from your site and I created a user account on your community server. Can I ask you a favor. Try to create a user account on in my forum. I made a requirement of e-mail validation and I have no way on testing that option out.

If the validation doesn't work, please post a reply in this forum, or send me a message through your community server

Do you unpacked you avatars folder in the root directory of the forum:?:

Thanks Mike

Unpack all of my category folders into YAF's avatar directory. That's all you have to do.

I tried to register on your site but I never received the activation email. You need to sort out your SMTP settings. You definitely can, and should, test this yourself by using a free email account, like Gmail, which you can configure YAF to send mail through like this:

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=13287 

 

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When I post fp:mddubs in a topic, I'm leaving my footprint there so I can track it once I get into coding/supporting. (Yes I stole this off Mek 🙂, who stole this off Ederon 🙂 )

I got the avatars and the smilies from your community server to work in my forum. I left a little thank you note in the announcement section of my forum.

I will look at my smtp settingd

Thanks for you support:p

The e-mail severs on google and msn hotmail will bounce my e-mails. They know that the e-mails are comming from a home based computer and so they think it's a spam e-mail. I have no clue how they know my Win 2003 Server is out of my home. So I have to pay for my e-mail service and this only one e-mail account. So I can test the e-mail validation on my forum.

As for the email, I feel your pain! I host my own Exchange server at home also and I too have run into bounced and rejected emails but I think I've ironed out all the kinks. The most important things I've learned are:

1. My ISP requires me to route all mail through them (smtp.comcast.net), so I do. If I don't do this, many recipients (craigslist for example), will spit my email back saying "your IP belongs to comcast so I must receive your email from comcast, not from you".

2. My IP address, along with millions of other's in Comcast's domain, is listed in the Spamhaus Policy Block list. There is nothing I can do about this, Spamhaus basically says "this is a Comcast IP so it could be anyone, you have been warned". This has only affected very specific mail of mine and was a real SOB to fix. If I composed an email that contained a hyperlink to my domain/IP and I sent that email to a GoDaddy mailbox, it would be caught by there spam filter and I would receive no notification that the email was blocked. This was a royal pain the rear and the only solution is to remove all hyperlinks that pointed to my IP.

3. Add an SPF record to your DNS records. I just wrote a post yesterday on how to do this with GoDaddy. An SPF record can help lower your spam rating, and with all the challenges home users face with hosting their own email, this can be very helpful.

Most of these things I've written blog posts about so you can search my site for more information. If you run into a specific issue let me know, maybe I can help. But you should be able to use Yahoo or Gmail SMTP settings from anywhere, that's what they're for.

 

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When I post fp:mddubs in a topic, I'm leaving my footprint there so I can track it once I get into coding/supporting. (Yes I stole this off Mek 🙂, who stole this off Ederon 🙂 )

http://msws.us/forum/yaf_postsm14_Smilies-Options.aspx#14 

Thanks for the shout-out but you totally butchered my name and site! :cheesy: :cheesy: :cheesy:

 

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When I post fp:mddubs in a topic, I'm leaving my footprint there so I can track it once I get into coding/supporting. (Yes I stole this off Mek 🙂, who stole this off Ederon 🙂 )

So sorry I got that url and name from your very 1st post in this tread. I thought that site was yours. I will edit the tread in the forum

and use your users name that you use on this site. Don't know your url

LOL you might be the owner of YAF

Not a big deal just yankin your chain buddy. 😛

Jaben Cargman is the creator of YAF, FYI.

https://www.ohloh.net/accounts/Jaben 

 

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When I post fp:mddubs in a topic, I'm leaving my footprint there so I can track it once I get into coding/supporting. (Yes I stole this off Mek 🙂, who stole this off Ederon 🙂 )

:roll: LOL Not 5 seconds after I change the info in my forum to yout Users name and tittle in this Forum. I recieved an e-mail about this post. So I will correct my spelling.

On the serious side. In the Administration area in version 1.9.1.8. I set the smtp name, the users name witch is he e-mail account nane, and the password.

When I press saved the password to the smtp server disappears ********* becomes a blank field. the users name password and the smtp server info is correct.

Is there any suggestions on how to fix this

I've never even seen the SMTP settings in YAF, the settings are configured in the web.config. When I debug locally my web.config SMTP setting looks like this (your web.config might be linked to mail.config, in which case you'll find the setting in that file):

<system.net>
    <mailSettings>
      <smtp>
        <network host="smtp.gmail.com" userName="xxx@gmail.com" password="xxx" port="587" />
      </smtp>
    </mailSettings>
</system.net>

 

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When I post fp:mddubs in a topic, I'm leaving my footprint there so I can track it once I get into coding/supporting. (Yes I stole this off Mek 🙂, who stole this off Ederon 🙂 )

Everything is working now, The avatars, emmotions, and the e-mail seetings.

Thanks

Mike

hey..very nice avatars.

I would like to use them for my website.

Sorry to ask, but I have to 😞

Are those avatars your own? I mean I would like to know license if I have to put em on my site.

Please let me know..thanks in advance