Trouble with email after server move

[Subsonic]

I have just moved servers, and changed domain name.
Now email is not working in any form... new member email activation, new posts, or any of the admin emails...
I have emailed and spoken to the server tech department and have the following...
from email:

The email will only have gone if the from address is an email address on your domain and is preceeded by the -f flag which was talked about if the knowledge base article.

http://xtreme.fasthosts.co.uk/kbv.exe?wrap=1&ID=70

and by phone:

I am told as a security feature to stop spam/bulk mail the from address must be contained in php scripts, as shown in the above knowledge page.

Can someone help me with this as I have very little knowledge of php?

[Steve Machol]

If your server requires that you send the '-f' parameter when sending email via PHP, alter this code in the vbmail function in functions.php:

[color=blue]mail($toemail, $subject, $message, $headers);[/color]

...to this:

[color=blue]mail($toemail, $subject, $message, $headers[b][color=red], "-f $webmasteremail"[/color][/b]);[/color]

[Subsonic]

If your server requires that you send the '-f' parameter when sending email via PHP, alter this code in the vbmail function in functions.php:

[color=blue]mail($toemail, $subject, $message, $headers);[/color]

...to this:

[color=blue]mail($toemail, $subject, $message, $headers[b][color=red], "-f $webmasteremail"[/color][/b]);[/color]

Thank you worked a treat...

Might need to make a new post for this but will ask I am sure you will tell me lol

I have a 100Mb database limit on this server but have the ability to purchase new databases but not increase the one single over 100...
Is there a way to get vbulletin to read from 2 databases?

[Steve Machol]

Not really. I imagine you could do this with some extensive hacking, but I wouldn't recommend it.

Do you have a large attachment table? If so, vB3 will allow you to move these out of the database and onto the server.

[Subsonic]

Not really. I imagine you could do this with some extensive hacking, but I wouldn't recommend it.

Do you have a large attachment table? If so, vB3 will allow you to move these out of the database and onto the server.

As this database is no longer local I am in new teritory... How can I tell the size of an individual table?

[Steve Machol]

You can see the tables sizes with phpMyAdmin.

[Dolby]

Cpanel users will have to do the following for the -f command to work on php scripts.

all you need to do is add this line to your exim.conf file in /etc

untrusted_set_sender = true

then restart exim

Taken from the cpanel forum: http://forums.cpanel.net/showthread.php?threadid=8154


tested this and it works great now!