I am testing this with co-worker since I have seen other posts that indicate this could be an issue with replying to your own topic.

Here are is our mail.config info:

Our internal Hosting Group indicated that I don't need a user ID or password for SMTP on our local server.

Does anyone have any insight about why this is not working? This is the final and one of the most crucial pieces of our implementation.

Thanks

<smtp deliveryMethod="Network" from="zandra.katauskas@mcgladrey.com">
<network host="our SMTP IPAddress"   />
</smtp>

<!-- Use this setting for development: pickup directory must be exact path >
<smtp deliveryMethod="SpecifiedPickupDirectory">
<specifiedPickupDirectory pickupDirectoryLocation="C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\email" />
</smtp-->

Any errors in the event log? Did notifications ever work? Need to check the yaf_mail table in the database - see if there are messages with many send attempts?

The notifications have never worked and up till now it wasn't really that important but now we are getting pressure to make them work.

There are notification items in the yaf_mail DB but they have no send attempts.

The event log from within the YAF Forum module only shows the following:

ASP.yaf_pages_im_email_ascx

When I click Show I get nothing.

When I check the yaf_eventlog in SQL I get this:

System.Threading.ThreadAbortException: Thread was being aborted. at System.Threading.Thread.AbortInternal() at System.Threading.Thread.Abort(Object stateInfo) at System.Web.HttpResponse.End() at System.Web.HttpResponse.Redirect(String url, Boolean endResponse) at System.Web.HttpResponse.Redirect(String url) at YAF.Classes.Utils.YafBuildLink.Redirect(ForumPages page, String format, Object[] args) in C:\TEMP\YAF\YAFIntegration\YAF.Classes\YAF.Classes.Utils\BuildLink.cs:line 107 at YAF.Pages.im_email.Send_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) in c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\AIEUPortal\WebSite\yaf\pages\im_email.ascx.cs:line 89

Thank you for your help so far.

You might try checking the server logs for app pool restarts but I don't think this is the root of your problem. If they never worked, it sounds more like the task to send mail is not running properly.

1.9.3 is a very old version of YAF and significant improvements have been made in the mail routines since that version...

YAF_pages_im_email_ascx is the page that allows a user to directly send an email to another user... I would investigate if notifications are properly configured, and check a user profile to see where the notification level is set to... Above that might require someone more familiar with that older version..

I just moved a 1.9.1.8 YAF to one of my servers to cure mail issues and their site now has properly functioning email service, but they had serious issues related to server mis-configuration. I would investigate options for your mail configuration, maybe trying an outside host to send mail through to see if that changes anything...