forum.namecoin.org does not allow new registration as activation email not sent

[browebhx]

Would love to participate in a discussion there, but there is no way to register in order to do so.
Can anyone help?
Thanks.

[yanmaani]

Yeah, it's a known issue, it's been like that for a while. It's not supposed to do that. Probably the easiest way is to ask someone with admin rights there to manually approve your account.

You should know that the forum is pretty inactive though. Most activity takes place on IRC/Matrix (see https://www.namecoin.org/resources/chat/)

[yanmaani]

@domob1812 This might be within your area of expertise. Would it be possible to just set it to use direct SMTP, without a mail server? Emails might end up in the spam, but at least they'll get there.

Alternatively, as a band-aid, you could disable mail registration entirely and put a message on the top to ask people to join #namecoin on freenode IRC for manual confirmation.

[domob1812]

I'm not really a server admin, so I don't know how to best solve this. I'm happy to do whatever config changes someone suggests on the server, though (after sanity checking them obviously).

[yanmaani]

Go to phpBB ACP, go to email settings, uncheck "Use SMTP server for email".

That will make the server send out the registrations emails directly, instead of relying on a SMTP server that could stop working at any time.

[domob1812]

Ok thanks, I've updated "Use SMTP server for email" to "no".

[yanmaani]

Oh, apparently that doesn't work - just stried. Jeremy said on IRC the SMTP module in PHP is disabled, so you'd either have to enable that, or go back to the old way and create a new account on the namecoin.org SMTP server (i.e. mail.domob.eu), then add it to config