Email validation problem

**Steve Machol** · Tue 19 Sep '06, 11:45am

Please see this page for help troubleshooting email problems:

vBulletin Manual

http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/troubleshoot_email

**Photoshopfreak** · Tue 19 Sep '06, 11:51am

I have read that, the only thing i have not done is use SMTP but is that likely to resolve this issue?

**Steve Machol** · Tue 19 Sep '06, 11:52am

Did you do the -f? Did you enable the vB email logging?

**Photoshopfreak** · Tue 19 Sep '06, 11:54am

Did you do the -f?

Yea i enabled it but right after i failed to get any emails even in my junk folder.

Did you enable the vB email logging?

Yea i believe so, should i check through that log?

BTW your fast at responding, thanks

**Steve Machol** · Tue 19 Sep '06, 12:03pm

I honestly don't see how enabling the 'f option would cause this. The next step is to check your logs and the server logs.

**Photoshopfreak** · Tue 19 Sep '06, 12:38pm

I honestly don't see how enabling the 'f option would cause this.

Maybe there was another reason i got no mail after enabling it, i will re-try using this option.

The next step is to check your logs and the server logs.

Ok, is there anything specific i should be looking for?

Also to cut down on possible communication problems, i just want to say that i truely believe all mail is being sent & i have tested this & recieved the mail on various email providers, the sole problem seems to be that the mail sent to various email providers goes into the junk or spam folder. Could this be because i am using an @aol.com address to send mail from my site instead of an @mywebsite.com address? is it possible to use an @aol.com address & have all email go to mostly the correct folder on various email providers?

**Steve Machol** · Tue 19 Sep '06, 9:58pm

Yes, it's possible they could be filtered out for the @aol.com address. You cannot force your emails past spam filters. If there was a surefire way to do this, don't you think all the spammers would be doing it?

**Photoshopfreak** · Wed 20 Sep '06, 9:32am

Yes, it's possible they could be filtered out for the @aol.com address.

It appears @aol.com did cause some spam filters to flag my emails because after using @mydomain.com some emails that were blocked before were getting through.

You cannot force your emails past spam filters. If there was a surefire way to do this, don't you think all the spammers would be doing it?

That's true, spammers would be too, however the difference is that they are sending spam & i'm just trying to contact users that request the email(s) but it's getting flagged as spam & surely there must be some error in either the way VB sends mail or the language used in the emails to trigger filters with various email providers, i truely believe theres atleast some way to minimise emails getting flagged as spam to some degree, even though this is an error with the email providers filtering & VB could say "Hey, what can we do?" i do feel that something could be done even in a small way to help VB customers because they can't use the software in the way they intended.

Anyway the only sure fire way for users to use my forums was to disable email verifaction, which i have done.

I do appeciate your support & fast response times & do truely believe VB rocks despite what i said, it's just what i pointed out seems to be the biggest pitfall of VB (i know other forum systems have this problem too)!

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