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UNRESOLVED: Problem with forum notifications and email

Post Number:#1  Post by ofonorow » Sat Jul 09, 2022 10:03 am

popnowlin wrote:The tests I have that use the mail() function in PHP fail. The forum is in PHP and dollars to donuts it's using the PHP mail() function. This broke when google got all uppity about possible SPAM and basically shut it down. Until the hosting ISPs decide their legacy customers are important enough to make that work again there is not much I can do. I can't rewrite the forum software to avoid mail(). I can't rewrite all of our legacy PHP software to avoid mail(). I can't even get my own scripts to work without using mailx
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So eDOC, et. al., we are at an impasse. Either the PHP/forum developers will provide a fix at some point, given the new rules, or, if we can find another server where forum email works, we may make a move there.
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