Error "Could not send message, perhaps missing or malformed recipient(s)"

[Intec]

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2001/01/05-14:37:45 ssmtp: Could not send message,
perhaps missing or malformed recipient(s)
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Database error in vBulletin: Link-ID == false, connect failed
mysql error:
mysql error number:
Date: Friday 05th of January 2001 02:37:45 PM
Script: /forum/showthread.php?threadid=6353&pagenumber=1

I find hundreds of this mailings in file called "dead.letter" in my directory. Some Webmaster-Errors are going in my mail-client and some are in this dead-letter.

Do you know why?

[Intec]

No man (or woman) has an answer?

[Mike Sullivan]

Well..
a) it can't get connected to your MySQL server
b) sendmail seems to just chuck a bunch of the mails. But you say you're getting some...

[Intec]

Yes.

The content (mysql-connection) of this error-mailings is ok. (Not good but right)

But some of this mailing going through and some has this error.


perhaps missing or malformed recipient(s)

Could it be, that some kind of error mailings has no the right recipient?

[Intec]

Perhaps anyone has on sunday a idea?

[Mike Sullivan]

Actually, I'm a moron. Those are going to dead.letter because they're not actually being sent to anyone since it can't get the technical email address correctly.

[Intec]

Thanks, but some of this error message come to the right mail-address of me.
Why that.

Sorry but what is a "moron"?

[Mike Sullivan]

Idiot, Stupid, etc.

The technical addess is stored in the db (for now). If you can't connect to the db, how can you get the email address?

[Intec]

I'm a moron.
Thats clear.

Do you know, where must I hard-corded, to work without db-connection.

[Intec]

And you have no tip for this?

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=7077

[Mike Sullivan]

Edit options.php and remove the cell that contains the technical email (make sure you know the variable name it's inserted to!), update your options so the technical email gets killed, then add the variable to your config.php.

Or wait until 2.0.

[Intec]

Thanks ED.