phpBB and registration emails

[trettep]

I have setup a phpBB forum but it doesn't seem to send registration emails. Anyone else had that problem? Is there a modification that needs to be made in the email setting section for that?

[shadmego]

I ran into a big problem with this and it took about two months of searching to find the answer. Finally, I stumbled upon it.

I will save you the agony of finding the solution yourself.

What I had to do is FTP to my phpbb installation. I had to navigate to the folder that contained all the files with text used in all emails sent by phpbb. I then had to use a text editor that saved the text files with UNIX end-of-line characters.

After all that, I went through EACH FILE, deleting all the returns and replacing them. Save your changes and then upload the changed files to the same web directory from which you downloaded.

I know it sounds terribly difficult, but once you do one, you will understand what I'm talking about and the rest will go by quickly.

~regards

[trettep]

I ran into a big problem with this and it took about two months of searching to find the answer. Finally, I stumbled upon it.

I will save you the agony of finding the solution yourself.

What I had to do is FTP to my phpbb installation. I had to navigate to the folder that contained all the files with text used in all emails sent by phpbb. I then had to use a text editor that saved the text files with UNIX end-of-line characters.

After all that, I went through EACH FILE, deleting all the returns and replacing them. Save your changes and then upload the changed files to the same web directory from which you downloaded.

I know it sounds terribly difficult, but once you do one, you will understand what I'm talking about and the rest will go by quickly.

~regards

What is a unix end of line character?

[shadmego]

Hold on.

I was looking through my files and it isn't making sense to me. I have to try and remember what I did. I do remember changing the end-of-line characters, but I don't remember what I changed them to.

To answer your question, a unix end-of-line character is a line feed (LF) or programmatically, "\n". That's in php anyway.

I will try to be back by tomorrow morning with a more complete answer if nobody else provides it before then.