• Registered: 2007-04-16
  • Posts: 4

Topic: Cryptic Registration/Notification Emails

Hi everyone,

I'm running punBB for a few days now and I face a really severe problem: all mails that are sent by the forum are not readable, at least not in a standard mail client software.
The mails look like this:

Subject: Alert - New Registration

Text:
VXNlciAnVG9iaWFzIExhbXBlJyByZWdpc3RlcmVkIGluIHRoZSBmb3J1bXMgYXQgaHR0cDovL3d3
dy5zZW12ZXJ0ZWlsdW5nLnZ3bC51bmktbXVlbmNoZW4uZGUvZm9ydW0NCg0KVXNlciBwcm9maWxl
OiBodHRwOi8vd3d3LnNlbXZlcnRlaWx1bmcudndsLnVuaS1tdWVuY2hlbi5kZS9mb3J1bS9wcm9m
aWxlLnBocD9pZD00DQoNCi0tIA0KRm9ydW0gTWFpbGVyDQooRG8gbm90IHJlcGx5IHRvIHRoaXMg
bWVzc2FnZSk=


Is this a standard problem? It would be great if someone had any advice, I really need the Email verification.

Thanks alot
diskobox

2 Reply by yemgi

  • yemgi
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  • From: Crawley, West Sussex
  • Registered: 2007-04-10
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Re: Cryptic Registration/Notification Emails

Looks like the mail content is hashed, have you installed mods ?

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  • Registered: 2007-04-16
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Re: Cryptic Registration/Notification Emails

The only mod/plugin I've installed is Style installer.

I'm running version 1.2.14

  • Smartys
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Re: Cryptic Registration/Notification Emails

It's base64 encoded, I couldn't tell you why

User 'Tobias Lampe' registered in the forums at http://www.semverteilung.vwl.uni-muenchen.de/forum

User profile: http://www.semverteilung.vwl.uni-muench … e.php?id=4

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  • Registered: 2007-04-16
  • Posts: 4

Re: Cryptic Registration/Notification Emails

Do you think the administrators of the webhosting service could help?

  • From: Leuven, Belgium
  • Registered: 2005-06-14
  • Posts: 2,653

Re: Cryptic Registration/Notification Emails

It's either the server or the client you're using that automatically does a base64-encode on whatever mail with an unrecognised mime type. Or something like that.
Does your forum use UTF-8?

  • Registered: 2007-04-16
  • Posts: 4

Re: Cryptic Registration/Notification Emails

elbekko wrote:

Does your forum use UTF-8?

How do I check that? I didn't find any options concerning the format of emails..

  • From: Leuven, Belgium
  • Registered: 2005-06-14
  • Posts: 2,653

Re: Cryptic Registration/Notification Emails

It should be in lang/yourlang/common.php.