Lumpy Burgertushie wrote: ↑Sun Oct 21, 2018 5:08 pm
what I mean is that before you can get an email for a pm you have to set your notifications to yes for email for PM.
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Yes, every test user has this setting enabled.
EA117 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 21, 2018 5:16 pm
... There is no email notification and no on-board notification if you send a PM from your account to literally your own account. You need a test account to send the PM to a second account in order to have notification options triggered.
Yes, that's what I did. Sorry ... could have mentioned that in my OP.
EA117 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 21, 2018 5:16 pm
No, you need to verify that the on-board notification and the email notification are both enabled for the user you are sending to. Meaning the ...
All settings in preferences (mine, and the test users) are checked and were properly set.
Thanks for the hint with the Subject line!
Mick wrote: ↑Sun Oct 21, 2018 6:52 pm
None whatever personally, but it's something I'd like to know too.
I did further tests with the old (initial) email address in both fields. Seems to work now.
I was not aware that sending emails from a web server would be so tricky.
EA117 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 21, 2018 8:41 pm
Do you mean you also reverted back to using SMTP settings, too? Or you just reverted back to the original email address that was in use with SMTP, but you're still having phpBB send mail using non-SMTP / the PHP mail() function now?
Sorry for the confusion. What I meant was that I reverted back to the initial email addresses in both fields. I keep on using the PHP mail() function!
Ok, but for what I figured out yesterday ... 90% of the emails (for PM notifications) arrived. Some didn't, even to the same user (= same email address). So sending a PM to a specific user worked (he received an email) and 1 hour later, same thing, but the same user didn't receive an email. I believe that spam filtering mechanisms are heavily involved here. Like that, I can live with it. I will test further during the next days.
Last question. Why was it suggested to leave the SMTP settings disabled? What's bad about using this setup to send emails?