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Could it be so, that you somehow have two forums? For example, you might have made a backup, and spammers post messages through the backup copy?
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djemmers
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| Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 6:27 am Post subject: |
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same here ...
If this stays I wil have to look for another antispam solution as my bos doesn't want to give money for it and I get over 500 mails a day now |
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| Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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| admin wrote: | 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". |
OK, from what I can gather here we're being held hostage! Either option #1 = pay money or option #2 = modify the code that other say DOES NOT WORK? In which case you are referred back to option #1?
So we got rid of the spammers but now get spam in our in box? FREE = FREE Dude! If you didn't want to give your work away you should have charged for it from the beginning!
This smells like someone just shut down the "inbox" so that we'd get the spam sent back to us with no recourse but option #1!! Sorry, but that's the way I see it! And I assume this message will be deleted and my IP address banned! That's OK too as there's no help here anyway! There is the PHPBB site though and I'll make my thoughts on this mod known there! Hopefully they will remove it from the "approved MODs" list!
Have a nice day! |
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admin
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| Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 3:14 am Post subject: |
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The solution 2 must work. If it doesn't work, then the solution 1 will not work too.
To Dave: please delete the whole fragment:
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// 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();
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Has it helped?
Important: in the bounce notifications, check the dates of the orinigal spam reports, not the dates of the bounce notification. Time difference between them is normally 3-4 days.
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Kareeser
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| Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 3:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Anonymous wrote: | | admin wrote: | 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". |
OK, from what I can gather here we're being held hostage! Either option #1 = pay money or option #2 = modify the code that other say DOES NOT WORK? In which case you are referred back to option #1?
So we got rid of the spammers but now get spam in our in box? FREE = FREE Dude! If you didn't want to give your work away you should have charged for it from the beginning!
This smells like someone just shut down the "inbox" so that we'd get the spam sent back to us with no recourse but option #1!! Sorry, but that's the way I see it! And I assume this message will be deleted and my IP address banned! That's OK too as there's no help here anyway! There is the PHPBB site though and I'll make my thoughts on this mod known there! Hopefully they will remove it from the "approved MODs" list!
Have a nice day! |
Hm, I was not aware that using this free product suddenly made you king of the world.
Do you realize that our friend here has programmed this script entirely out of the goodness of his heart (and maybe a little greed)??
Did you realize that by downloading and installing the free version, you don't have any legal recourse?
Did you even realize that if you REALLY wanted the emails to stop, you could just set up a god damn filter and block the mailer daemon?
No, of course not. You're too idiotic to realize that. |
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Kareeser
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| Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 3:21 pm Post subject: |
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| admin wrote: | | 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. |
Have you tried contacting your hosting provider directly to ask for a solution? |
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admin
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| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 3:07 am Post subject: |
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Thanks Kareeser.
| Quote: | | Have you tried contacting your hosting provider directly to ask for a solution? |
Yes. Unfortunately, my requirements are too exotic, and all that automatic management tools don't support them.
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ChevelleFan
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| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 3:45 pm Post subject: |
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Well, I deleted that whole section (Send the message) from the functions_tc.php file (in /public_html/phpBB/admin/mods/TextualConfirmation-1.0.1/includes/ ) and I'm still getting the bounces. When I test it out, they arrive immediately.
I don't know much about PHP -- is it possible that there is a cache'd copy being used somewhere?
-Dave
| admin wrote: | The solution 2 must work. If it doesn't work, then the solution 1 will not work too.
To Dave: please delete the whole fragment:
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// 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();
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Has it helped?
Important: in the bounce notifications, check the dates of the orinigal spam reports, not the dates of the bounce notification. Time difference between them is normally 3-4 days. |
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admin
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| Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 4:46 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for providing the full path to the file you edit! Now I can easily help. Instead of the file
/public_html/phpBB/admin/mods/TextualConfirmation-1.0.1/includes/functions_tc.php
edit the file
/public_html/phpBB/includes/functions_tc.php
The former is an archived copy, the latter is what is used by phpBB.
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ChevelleFan
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| Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 1:05 pm Post subject: |
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| admin wrote: | Thanks for providing the full path to the file you edit! Now I can easily help. Instead of the file
/public_html/phpBB/admin/mods/TextualConfirmation-1.0.1/includes/functions_tc.php
edit the file
/public_html/phpBB/includes/functions_tc.php
The former is an archived copy, the latter is what is used by phpBB. |
I think that did it! I guess it helps when you edit the correct file! I commented out the whole send-the-mail section and it doesn't seem to be generating the emails any longer. Thanks for sticking with me on this!
-Dave |
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admin
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| Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 5:18 am Post subject: |
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Very nice! I'm happy that the problem is finally solved.
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| Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 2:40 pm Post subject: |
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I edited the file:
/phpBB/includes/functions_tc.php
And commented out line 204:
$emailer->bcc('tcsubmit@bbspam.com');
That seems to have done the trick.
To be clear, the line became:
/* $emailer->bcc('tcsubmit@bbspam.com'); */ |
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| Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 1:43 am Post subject: |
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| Is it possible to change the email address that the failed notifications get sent too? I dont mind getting them, but I want the to go to a different account than I originally setup? |
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admin
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| Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 3:25 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Is it possible to change the email address that the failed notifications get sent too? I dont mind getting them, but I want the to go to a different account than I originally setup? |
Yes. In the file "includes/functions_tc.php", change the line
| Code: | | $emailer->email_address($board_config['board_email']); |
to
| Code: | | $emailer->email_address('email@you.want'); |
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| Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 1:23 pm Post subject: |
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| admin wrote: | | Quote: | | Is it possible to change the email address that the failed notifications get sent too? I dont mind getting them, but I want the to go to a different account than I originally setup? |
Yes. In the file "includes/functions_tc.php", change the line
| Code: | | $emailer->email_address($board_config['board_email']); |
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| Code: | | $emailer->email_address('email@you.want'); |
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Awesome! Thanks...great product by the way! |
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