SMTP error message while posting? Makes no sense to me.

Hi, Tip.It Forum Admins.

I dunno why, but I'm getting this message while trying to post...

General Error

 

 

 

Could not connect to smtp host : 110 : Connection timed out

 

 

 

DEBUG MODE

 

 

 

Line : 93

 

File : smtp.php

...and I'm not even trying to send e-mail. (Can't do that on this forum anyway...)

All I'm going to ask is please tell me why this is happening, and please not to flame me while responding. :-s ... I'm reasonably sure it is a bug that needs an "admin-squashing". : (Halloween veggie pun intended.)

Thanks in advance for nailing it.

~Mr. Devnull

(Note: I've posted this publically so other forum users won't go bonkers, so please don't flame me over that.)

It probably has to do with the server load. I would imagine that the timeout is between the web server and database, not the website and your computer.

got one as well

Yup, i'm getting this too so i'm just guessing an error in...whatever this is made in (PPhtpp) or something lol.

All I'm going to ask is please tell me why this is happening, and please not to flame me while responding. :-s ... I'm reasonably sure it is a bug that needs an "admin-squashing". : (Halloween veggie pun intended.)

It's exactly what the errors says. It can't connect to the SMTP server. Looking up what SMTP is will tell you it has to do with email. PhpBB happens to have features that email users when a reply is made to a thread or when other similar events happen. It can't connect to the email server to send said notices, that would be why the error appears.

Simple logic answers so many questions.

I'm receiving the same error. The message still gets posted, however, the message pops up.

Man.. the forum has been so buggy this week..

I'm getting error messages like the one described and I don't even have said feature(the email one) turned on!! -.-

I'm getting error messages like the one described and I don't even have said feature(the email one) turned on!! -.-

It has nothing to do with just you. If *anyone* has subscribed to the thread with the email options everyone that replys will get the error because it fails to send the emails other subscribed to.

I'm getting error messages like the one described and I don't even have said feature(the email one) turned on!! -.-

 

 

 

It has nothing to do with just you. If *anyone* has subscribed to the thread with the email options everyone that replys will get the error because it fails to send the emails other subscribed to.

I'm not so sure its whether anyone is subscribed to it, but the fact that it exists and could be subscribed to. What I would imagine the board does is it connects to said server and finds itself in the list. This connection would be where the error is coming from, and not the sending of the e-mail itself. After it makes the connection, it finds subscribed users and sends the e-mail.

So you'd get the error one way or another, and this would probably just be an issue with the mailing server. This would be a problem on our end somewhere, and is absolutely nothing to worry about since your post still gets posted. All it does is inconvenience you to go back through the main forum index to get back to where you were.

I'm not so sure its whether anyone is subscribed to it, but the fact that it exists and could be subscribed to. What I would imagine the board does is it connects to said server and finds itself in the list. This connection would be where the error is coming from, and not the sending of the e-mail itself. After it makes the connection, it finds subscribed users and sends the e-mail.

Connecting to the mail server with each and every post regardless of mail settings is a rather stupid way to do it when you can just selectively connect and send mail as required per thread.

You can go look in functions_post.php for the user_notification function and look at what the code does. It checks for subscribed users before trying to connect. :P

I'm not so sure its whether anyone is subscribed to it, but the fact that it exists and could be subscribed to. What I would imagine the board does is it connects to said server and finds itself in the list. This connection would be where the error is coming from, and not the sending of the e-mail itself. After it makes the connection, it finds subscribed users and sends the e-mail.

 

Connecting to the mail server with each and every post regardless of mail settings is a rather stupid way to do it when you can just selectively connect and send mail as required per thread.

 

 

 

You can go look in functions_post.php for the user_notification function and look at what the code does. It checks for subscribed users before trying to connect. :P

Fair enough. I don't go looking through a site's code though. Don't want to get blamed as a hacker :ohnoes:

I'm not so sure its whether anyone is subscribed to it, but the fact that it exists and could be subscribed to. What I would imagine the board does is it connects to said server and finds itself in the list. This connection would be where the error is coming from, and not the sending of the e-mail itself. After it makes the connection, it finds subscribed users and sends the e-mail.

 

Connecting to the mail server with each and every post regardless of mail settings is a rather stupid way to do it when you can just selectively connect and send mail as required per thread.

 

 

 

You can go look in functions_post.php for the user_notification function and look at what the code does. It checks for subscribed users before trying to connect. :P

 

 

 

Fair enough. I don't go looking through a site's code though. Don't want to get blamed as a hacker :ohnoes:

I think he means in the phpbb source code. There's no way you could see the php code of a site like this; iirc, it'll just say "Hacking attempt" and die.

Fair enough. I don't go looking through a site's code though. Don't want to get blamed as a hacker :ohnoes:

 

 

 

I think he means in the phpbb source code. There's no way you could see the php code of a site like this; iirc, it'll just say "Hacking attempt" and die.

Yar, I don't have access to the Tip.It forum code. I'm talking about a vanila install of phpBB 2. I have a test forum on my LAN server for fiddling with so I just looked there. :P

All I'm going to ask is please tell me why this is happening, and please not to flame me while responding. :-s ... I'm reasonably sure it is a bug that needs an "admin-squashing". : (Halloween veggie pun intended.)

 

It's exactly what the errors says. It can't connect to the SMTP server. Looking up what SMTP is will tell you it has to do with email. PhpBB happens to have features that email users when a reply is made to a thread or when other similar events happen. It can't connect to the email server to send said notices, that would be why the error appears.

 

 

 

Simple logic answers so many questions.

Alright, thanks for the info. :) ... Hmm, I guess I need to read a bit more, seeing as I never use features like that. :-k

HEY!!! Wait-a-minute, didn't I ask to NOT get flamed? :shock: (Hint: Last line in your post, "Simple logic answers so many questions.")

~Mr. Devnull

 

 

 

HEY!!! Wait-a-minute, didn't I ask to NOT get flamed? :shock: (Hint: Last line in your post, "Simple logic answers so many questions.")

 

 

 

~Mr. Devnull

Seriously, go have a cry. If you think that is flaming then you really shouldn't be using forums.