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[Tio Rojo]

Hi! I'm having some problems with registrations.

Well, it all divides in two:

1) When people registered, and I accepted registrations, my server administrator told me that they had recieved like 100 unsent and returned mails because of me, and suspended my account. Then when they reactivated me, I disabled the sendmail option so it wouldn't bug again, and instead used SMTP. Now my administrator doesn't complain, but each time you register or post, you get a socket error. I think it said "error in opensocket function". I've tried with different SMTP accounts and think they are valid.

2) I started switching between modes and seeing if emails arrived and that, when suddenly, when I was registering myself as test user, i got a message after filling the registration form: "you can't access this area". I am sure that the option "don't not allow new resgistrations" is turned off, so I don't know why this is happening!

Thanks for reading

[[Unknown]]

1) When people registered, and I accepted registrations, my server administrator told me that they had recieved like 100 unsent and returned mails because of me, and suspended my account. Then when they reactivated me, I disabled the sendmail option so it wouldn't bug again, and instead used SMTP. Now my administrator doesn't complain, but each time you register or post, you get a socket error. I think it said "error in opensocket function". I've tried with different SMTP accounts and think they are valid.

You've got a few things going on here:

1. Using sendmail, all your email was bouncing.  This can either indicate that people were registering with fake accounts, or your server is blacklisted as a spammer.

2. Your SMTP settings may not be correct.  Check to make sure you're using the server with no spaces, quotes, or anything like that.  An example might be "outgoing.verizon.net" - using port 25.  Obviously, you need an account for that to work.

3. Your server may not have access to other server's port 25.  Ask your administrator.

2) I started switching between modes and seeing if emails arrived and that, when suddenly, when I was registering myself as test user, i got a message after filling the registration form: "you can't access this area". I am sure that the option "don't not allow new resgistrations" is turned off, so I don't know why this is happening!

You cannot register twice in a row; instead, use the "email your members" functionality in the admin center, or "register a new member" in the registration management.

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