Notifying admin when a new member joins - STOPPED WORKING

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Were there any other forum emails in spam folder?

[Roozbeh]

No 🙂 Every time I miss any email, spam folder is the first place I check. no email came through during this issue.

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Well, that makes no sense.  But there's nothing wrong with your forum, so that's the good news.

[m4z]

What's your hosting situation, do you have access to your server's mail logs, f.e. via cpanel?

[Roozbeh]

Well, that makes no sense.  But there's nothing wrong with your forum, so that's the good news.

thanks a lot for your help.

Not expert on SMF source code but last couple of days I started reading the SMF code and realized there are special treatments for hotmail email address when it comes to sendmail() function. is it possible that the some of these emails might not be correctly recognized as hotmail and mistreated?

again thanks for your help.

[Roozbeh]

What's your hosting situation, do you have access to your server's mail logs, f.e. via cpanel?

I'm using Godaddy. unfortunately don't know how to access it. still it does not make sense when testmail.php's email goes through but email from forum get stuck. it's does not seem to be server's problem as @Sir Osis of Liver mentioned.

[Illori]

it is possible your email provider is killing off the email before it even gets to you. we have seen this before. you would need to slightly modify the email that SMF is sending and you will start to receive the emails.

[Roozbeh]

it is possible your email provider is killing off the email before it even gets to you. we have seen this before. you would need to slightly modify the email that SMF is sending and you will start to receive the emails.

what do you mean by "slightly modify the email that SMF is sending"? do you mean I change the content of default email sent by SMF?

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

Exactly, if the email is for some reason blocked due to contents, then changing the contents might work.

[Sir Osis of Liver]

GoDaddy.

[Roozbeh]

yes GoDaddy, however, with your help and GoDaddy's support page I managed to setup the SMTP format which fixed my initial issue of not receiving any email. now I can receive email but still when the new members login to the forum I won't be able to receive any notification. It seems like notifyadmin() function won't be able to access the list of admin email(s).

[Illori]

I would suggest you to modify the email first and see if that helps. if not then we can look into other options.

[Roozbeh]

good point, I'll do that and share the result. thanks!

[Roozbeh]

I would suggest you to modify the email first and see if that helps. if not then we can look into other options.

hi Illori you were right the email content was the reason for blocking the notification emails. I'm not sure if it's the link to new member profile or the wording itself. I guess I need to figure it out by trial and error. thank you again for your help.

[m4z]

Please share your findings (and mark the topic as solved in the bottom left when the mystery is solved)!

[Roozbeh]

after several trial and error, it turns out that any email with 'A new member has joined' as subject is being blocked by my domain host (i.e. GoDaddy). so in order to temporarily fix the issue, I modified all the subjects to ''New member has joined' in the 'Themes\default\languages\EmailTemplates.english.php' file. Now Everything is back to normal and I'll be able to receive notification email when new member joins.

thank you everyone for your help.