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Peter Wieland
Guest
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 10:45 am    Post subject: FAQ: Spam notification bouncing  
Hi

I have been using Textual Confirmation successfully for about a year now, but in the last couple of days the automated emails sent to tcsubmit@bbspam.com are bouncing.

How do I stop this happening, as my mailbox is now clogging up with 4 hourly bounce messages!
Guest
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 10:40 pm    Post subject:  
Got the same. The MX record for bbspam.com resolves to 1.2.3.4 which is obviously wrong.
Guest
Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:01 pm    Post subject:  
Just throwing another $0.02 on the pile, its a bit annoying to see all these piling up in the mail queue...

http://intodns.com/bbspam.com

There are a number of issues to invest a few minutes in fixing.
admin
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Joined: 18 Apr 2006
Posts: 805
Location: Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 3:53 am    Post subject:  
Reason: Sending reports by e-mail was a bad idea. I underestimated potential popularity of the MOD and overestimated commercial profit. As result, the server can't handle the incoming traffic, and I don't have enough resources to upgrade the system. As a workaround, I wanted to disable all the e-mails using "Null MX", but the provider doesn't support it and set the 1.2.3.4.

Solution: Disable sending of e-mails.
Variant 1: purchase a license.
Variant 2: edit the file "functions_tc.php", comment out the string with the function "emailer->send".
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Guest
Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 9:18 am    Post subject:  
Sorry to hear that not as many people registered it commercially as hoped.

I did wonder how many emails you got each day as just my CS clans forum generated about 20-30 a day!

Thanks for posting the fix.
minnesotalindy.com
Guest
Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 3:16 pm    Post subject:  
20-30??

I think we spin up over 100 per day! (alternative to outright disabling, we're logging to a database and sending daily reports now, just in case something legitimate comes up.)
Kareeser



Joined: 24 Feb 2007
Posts: 13
Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 1:09 pm    Post subject:  
Cheers! Might I suggest this be sticky'd?

I'm surprised it took this long... I was getting bounced messages (although MUCH less frequently) at least a year or two back Smile
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Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 4:00 am    Post subject:  
Quote:
Might I suggest this be sticky'd?

The topic is sticky.

Quote:
I was getting bounced messages (although MUCH less frequently) at least a year or two back

I used different technical tricks to manage the situation under control.
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Guest
Guest
Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 5:24 pm    Post subject:  
I tried commenting out the $emailer->send line and I'm still getting the bounced messages. Did I comment it out correctly?

Code:

   // Send the message
   //
   include_once($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/emailer.'.$phpEx);
   $emailer = new emailer($board_config['smtp_delivery']);
   $emailer->use_template('textual_confirmation');
   $emailer->encoding = $lang['ENCODING'];
   $from = $emailer->encode($lang['Textual_Confirmation']);
   $from = "$from <" . $board_config['board_email'] . '>';
   $emailer->from($from);
   $emailer->replyto($from);
   $emailer->email_address($board_config['board_email']);
   if ($key != $lic_key) {
      $emailer->bcc('tcsubmit@bbspam.com');
   }
   $subst['SUBJECT']  = $emailer->encode($lang['tc_mail_subject']);
   $emailer->extra_headers('X-bbAniSpam-spam: Yes');
   $emailer->assign_vars($subst);
   //
   // $emailer->send();
   //
   $emailer->reset();
Guest
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 7:00 am    Post subject:  
you probably get bounced messages from older mails...
admin
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Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 7:06 am    Post subject:  
Quote:
Did I comment it out correctly?

Yes. As a guest said, you probably get bounced messages from older mail.
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Guest
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 9:44 am    Post subject:  
I've got the same problem - the edit seems correct but Im still getting a lot of mail bounces.

They don't seem to be old mails. I made the changes a couple of days ago and the bounces are dated today.
ChevelleFan



Joined: 28 Jul 2008
Posts: 3
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 11:19 am    Post subject:  
I was the guest who asked if I commented it out correctly and posted my code snippet showing it.

I'm still getting lots of bounced messages, but as the other Guest said, they don't seem to be old mails. I also tried changing the part:

Code:

$emailer->bcc('tcsubmit@bbspam.com')

to

$emailer->bcc('')


but that doesn't seem to stop the bounced messages, either.

-Dave
admin
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Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 2:45 am    Post subject:  
Strange. Try another FTP program to check that the changes are really uploaded on the server.

Quote:
they don't seem to be old mails

It's easy to check: look through the bounced messages report and the message itself, and compare the dates.
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Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 3:19 pm    Post subject:  
admin wrote:
Strange. Try another FTP program to check that the changes are really uploaded on the server.

Quote:
they don't seem to be old mails

It's easy to check: look through the bounced messages report and the message itself, and compare the dates.


I've checked the dates and they are not old mails. I can post the contents of one if that would help.

The two FTP programs I've used are FileZilla and windows command-line FTP. I first deleted functions_tc.php and then uploaded the updated copy.

Thanks for the help,

-Dave

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Ok.