Email notifications not working

[Raider Bill]

Bill, here is your problem.  Spam Arrest

Bill Schultz here,

I'm protecting myself from receiving junk mail.


Please click the link below to complete the verification process.
You have to do this only once.

Then, once you get there, you have to enter code to finish up. The forum software has no way to "click the link" or "enter the code"   

You will need to login to your Spam Arrest account and add to the trusted emails, noreply@forestryforum.com and admins@forestryforum.com and that should take care of it.

I don't think that is the problem as I approved that address on November 21st 2006  which should be close to when I joined.

This is the last notification I received

Topic reply: Deer watching
The Forestry Forum <noreply@forestryforum.com>
Wed 10/19/2011 2:14 PM
bill@fiainspectors.com

A reply has been posted to a topic you are watching by beenthere.

View the reply at: https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?topic=36352.new;topicseen#new

Unsubscribe to this topic by clicking here: https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=notify;topic=36352.0

More replies may be posted, but you won't receive any more notifications until you read the topic.

Regards,
The The Forestry Forum Team.
This is a system email generated by the Forestry Forum. If you reply to this email, it will not reach it's intended recipient. noreply@forestryforum.com

Prior to this I received many each day including new posts, replies, PM's etc. My tech guy says nothings changed on this end.

[Jeff]

hmmmm....

Well,  I guess I'll be looking deeper when I get home. I know I've changed nothing since that time period.  Is anyone getting notifications?  Registration must be working as we are getting new members yet.

[Raider Bill]

I just got my first one since the below mention date titled "There It Goes"

[beenthere]

I turned that feature off as it was more nuisance than benefit. But then I usually check in often (prolly too often but can't help it  ;D )

[woodsy]

This is my first notification of any sort in about 2 weeks.  In fact I was just getting ready to post about notifications not working for my account but I guess they are working now.  Thanks for fixing the problem.

[Jeff]

Ok, good.  I went in and changed the port for outgoing mail on the server. Maybe some ISP's were blocking it. I don't know, but hopefully this was the fix.

[Raider Bill]

I'd say that was it as they are coming in now.

[SwampDonkey]

I received my first one around 6:00 pm local time. Musta worked.

[Warbird]

If this happens again Jeff, let's check the mail logs on the server and the /var/log/messages log file for clues as to what was happening.

[Jeff]

All I did was switch the forum's smtp connection from port 25 to 587

[ronwood]

Jeff,
Wondering if there could be a firewall issue with your provider or on your server. Does the server run iptables and if so have you look at it?  On all my servers I do a deny all input and output and have to define each input and output port that is allowed to pass in either direction. Would be surprised what you stop that you did not know about.  Also is there  an application firewall that could be causing a issue.

Ron

[Warbird]

Jeff, as you know I've got a lot going on right now.  I would have some time late next week to analyze the server, should this become an issue again.  Ron's suggestions are very good things to take a look at.

[Corley5]

It's working  8) 8) 8)  Thanks Jeff

[WDH]

Whatever you did was good!  I am back in the loop again.