Email problem

[Ogmuk]

I've started a thread here (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=86218) but think that it's more appropriate here.

In short my emails appear in the email clients either with too many enters or none at all while those sent from this forum are perfect (both sending to the same email address), hence I'm looking into my server's configuration but I have no idea where to start looking.

EDIT:
Finally a vbulletin with the same problem. Outlook XP and Outlook 2003 users can see the problem at http://forums.cpanel.net/. In outlook 2003 it will appear that there are no enters between the lines in the emails you receive from this vbulletin board until you press Reply.

[Ogmuk]

I've started a thread here (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=86218) but think that it's more appropriate here.

In short my emails appear in the email clients either with too many enters or none at all while those sent from this forum are perfect (both sending to the same email address), hence I'm looking into my server's configuration but I have no idea where to start looking.
I did some further testing; the no enters thing should be ignored, this is an Outlook 2003 reading pane thing because when you open it you get the double enters again. I've changed my email addy into hotmail and they looked fine there. I would think it's a problem of my email client wasn't it for vbulletin.com's emails looking perfect in my client... Anyone any ideas?

[boutwell]

I have noticed the same thing Og. As a matter of fact, it has some sort of new encoding or smart tag or something that changes the way outgoing mails appear as well. People have complained that my mails are all double-spaced since I upgraded to Outlook 2003. I have tried to find a setting to correct this but to no avail. If you find out what's the cause of this please let me know my friend.

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I did some further testing; the no enters thing should be ignored, this is an Outlook 2003 reading pane thing because when you open it you get the double enters again. I've changed my email addy into hotmail and they looked fine there. I would think it's a problem of my email client wasn't it for vbulletin.com's emails looking perfect in my client... Anyone any ideas?

[Ogmuk]

I'm still searching... What Linux distro are you using? RedHat 9 with Plesk 6.0.2 here.

With the upcoming Office 2003 I wouldn't be surprised when more are going to find out that they're experiencing the same problem on their forum since double enters would look like it's designed to look that way unlike Outlook 2003's no enters at all (when you reply to the email it shows as double enters again).

[Ogmuk]

I tried updating my test server's php to 4.3.4 with atomicrocketturtle.com's available packages but I'm getting the following error with an email submission:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mail() in /home/httpd/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/forum/includes/functions.php on line 2445

EDIT: This problem was solved.

[Ogmuk]

I've upgraded to MySQL 4.0.16 and PHP 4.3.4 on my vmware test server but I still get the same double enters error in each email that vbulletin sends out via mail(). Could a mail virus scanner and/or a spamblocker cause this behavior?

[Ogmuk]

After a long test it appears that when you install RedHat's sendmail-8.12.8-9.90.rpm with up2date, which is not required to send out email, it's fixed. Of course this is not a fix for me since I'm using Plesk w/ Qmail and I can't get it to work with php 4.3.4, getting undefined function: mail() errors.

[Ogmuk]

It appears to be a problem with the line terminator. If I'd replace each "\r\n" with "\n" the email would send out without a problem.

[Michael-DLR]

Ohh I am having this issue and don't even know where to start. Any have instructions on how to fix this? Thanks!

[Ogmuk]

I've started a new thread about this here:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=88476

If you could post your problem there we could try to keep this thread alive until there's a fix either for qmail settings/wrapper/etc or for vbulletin.

[Michael-DLR]

Hello,

I upgraded my php to 4.3.4 on Saturday evening. Now when people try to send Private Messages or use the send message they get this error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mail() in /home/virtual/site1/fst/var/www/html/mousetalk/includes/functions.php on line 1280

I have sendmail and not qmail (I believe). I have spent over 5 hours trying to find a resolution on this. It is more than a vbulletin issue because a feedback form (php) I have it having the same Fatal error: Call to undefined function: mail() issue. My server hosting company, ev1servers indicated "it was out of their scope" to point me in the right direction.

I have been to php.net and they don't say it is a bug in the release, however, I can not find any resolution on their site on how to resolve.

Thank you so much!

[Steve Machol]

Michael-DLR, in the future please start your own thread rather than attaching to someone else's. This will help us concentrate on each person's specific issue.

P.S. Reupload the orignal functions.php file from the vB zip file. If you need more help - start a thread.