Forum Broke Over Night 10/02/24
Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2024 8:01 am
Hi,
After the troubles of a few weeks ago where the server was being overloaded and spending hours getting that fixed I woke up this morning to find the below errors coming up so have spent 3 hours trawling for answers, trying many things, then spotted in one forum some weird looking posts that were by a guest user that once deleted all the errors went away. These were not malicious but infact old posts that had lost their ids when they were originally deleted and messed things up. I had stripped the forum down to a vanilla board and now need to spend another hour or two rebuilding it back to where it was.
I have also been investigating email issues where potential users do not recieve activation responses. I have tested the emails going out, they function as intended however gmail and hotmail bounce them back seeing the emails as SPAM. This may be why we havent been getting many people joining up and posting as only non generic email addresses get through. I am trying to figure out how to get gmail and hotmail to accept the emails from this server or if we can do something to help people join. So if any of you have any ideas I would be completely open to them.
Regards
FC
After the troubles of a few weeks ago where the server was being overloaded and spending hours getting that fixed I woke up this morning to find the below errors coming up so have spent 3 hours trawling for answers, trying many things, then spotted in one forum some weird looking posts that were by a guest user that once deleted all the errors went away. These were not malicious but infact old posts that had lost their ids when they were originally deleted and messed things up. I had stripped the forum down to a vanilla board and now need to spend another hour or two rebuilding it back to where it was.
I have also been investigating email issues where potential users do not recieve activation responses. I have tested the emails going out, they function as intended however gmail and hotmail bounce them back seeing the emails as SPAM. This may be why we havent been getting many people joining up and posting as only non generic email addresses get through. I am trying to figure out how to get gmail and hotmail to accept the emails from this server or if we can do something to help people join. So if any of you have any ideas I would be completely open to them.
Regards
FC