Email Verification not working · YAF.NET Support Forum

Coleen
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YAF Commander Topic Starter

10 years ago

Okay this is a problem! This is the second confirmed notification that I have users that are having the same login issues that I am as Administrator! Here are copies of the emails I received from both users:

Quote:

I've tried to log in a few times - to the AHC website. The system says my user name is in there. But I can't get in. I got a message to look out for an email to verify my email address, but I never got such an email?

Quote:

Cant log in to confirm my registration. Clicled the forgotten passowrd an answered the security question but im yet to receive my password . Please can you help so I can access your forum.

This is a HUGE problem! these are just two confirmed users with issues, I have several users that have registered but never responded further, and I suspect it is due to this same issue!

What is going on? Why are users "losing" their login rights?

How do I set this up so that they will automatically get the "confirmation" email and so that it will recognize them when they return after getting the email confirmation? Currently I am "confirming" them manually by going to the forums main "Administration page: MyForum » Administration and under the Unverified Users I have a (now long) list of users that have registered but not been confirmed. I manually send them an email - the system is NOT sending one! How do I fix this? Please help!

Thanks!

Coleen

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Jaben
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YAF Developer

10 years ago

Try and create an account with another email and see if it works.

I just registered on your forum and so far (10 minutes) have not received a confirmation email.

You may need to look at your event log and see if there are errors. Also, in the installation system (yourforum/install) there is a place to test email sending. Also you can test send the digest in the digest admin area.

Probably the email settings are incorrect.

Coleen
89.2% (Honored)
YAF Commander Topic Starter

10 years ago

Thanks Jaben.

I tried creating a "dummy" account with a new email address, registered with that email, and no, I never got an email confirmation. Is there some documentation some place on how to set up the email? I know I have the email configured correctly as far as my web.config goes, but I did not see any settings in the Host admin section, so I am not certain where/how else to set up the email. Any help you could provide me on this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Jaben
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YAF Developer

10 years ago

Coleen... JUST RIGHT NOW, I got the notification. So whatever you did worked.


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Coleen
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YAF Commander Topic Starter

10 years ago

Nope - that email is the one that we send out manually - I've never been able to get the automatic email confirmation function to work. I didn't do anything to my forums at all - my co-administrator sent that to you, so it's still not working correctly. (sigh) Any suggestions?

tha_watcha
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YAF.NET Project Lead 🤴 YAF Version: 3.0.3

10 years ago

Originally Posted by: Coleen

Nope - that email is the one that we send out manually - I've never been able to get the automatic email confirmation function to work. I didn't do anything to my forums at all - my co-administrator sent that to you, so it's still not working correctly. (sigh) Any suggestions?

As Jaben already suggested go to the install/upgrade wizard. There is a page where you can test and configure your email setup.

The install wizard can be reached from the admin menu or if you go to yoursite.com/install (replace it with your forum URL).

Coleen
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YAF Commander Topic Starter

10 years ago

Thanks for the info - unfortunately it isn't working! Here's what I get:

And I am still getting a ton of errors with users not being able to reset their passwords - the password reset email does not work, the email verification does not work. This is having an impact on the number of users that can/will join!

I could really use some help on this issue...please?

Thanks!
Coleen

Zero2Cool
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YAF Leader

10 years ago

Here's what I have in my mail.config and mail is working fine. (Please note, I am using YAF BETA 2.0, but didn't have issues you mentioned with 1.9.6.

<!--
	SMTP setup for sending of e-mails from your forum.
	If the SMTP is SSL, you must edit the appSettings and set
	"YAF.UseSMTPSSL" to "true".
-->
	 <!--<smtp deliveryMethod="Network" from="myName@gmail.com"> -->
	 <!--<network host="smtp.gmail.com" port="587" password="Not4uSilly" userName="myName@gmail.com" />-->
	
	<smtp deliveryMethod="Network" from="getSome@PackersHome.com"> 
	<network host="smtp.PackersHome.com" port="25" password="Not4uSilly!" userName="getSome@packershome.com" />
	
	
</smtp>

Coleen
89.2% (Honored)
YAF Commander Topic Starter

10 years ago

This is what I have both my web.config and my mail.config set as:

The only difference I see is that you have

instead of just would that make the difference?

I guess it won't hurt to try it - it can't be worse than it already is! Thanks!

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