Webmaster

[kbrizs]

How can I contact the webmaster. All the email I send gets rejected and is undeliverable. I tried sending an email to

[email protected]

My email client seems to be fine.

[RobDog888]

Seems fine to me. Would it return immediately or after some time?

[Nightwalker83]

There is the contact us form:

http://www.vbforums.com/sendmessage.php

Link "Contact Us" is at the bottom of the page.

[brad jones]

or you can PM me - Brad Jones.

There is nothing wrong with the webmaster address on our side.

Brad!

[RobDog888]

I just got the test email I sent out earlier bounced back - failure.

[Kasracer]

I just got the test email I sent out earlier bounced back - failure.

That's quite a long time... I just sent an e-mail as well so I'll report back if I have any issues after ~8 hours.

[Nightwalker83]

I just sent an email too! Well if it fails at least there is always the "Contact Us" form like posted above. Failing that a second option like Brad suggested is to pm him (or another staff member).

[MartinLiss]

I just got the test email I sent out earlier bounced back - failure.

Me too.

[Kasracer]

I never received a bounce back... unless it takes over 24 hours to do so.

[MartinLiss]

I never received a bounce back... unless it takes over 24 hours to do so.

Mine took 28 hours to bounce back.

[Kasracer]

Holy crap.... then I'll let you know if it bounces back. Maybe it'll bounce back on Tuesday?

[brad jones]

Can someone forward the header information and message? bjones <.at.> Jupitermedia -dot- com.

Thanks,

Brad!

[MartinLiss]

Done.

[Kasracer]

I received an error as well and also forwarded. It seems VBForums.com's SMTP server is having trouble resolving my domain name (BinaryIdiot.com). Here's the error with my e-mail address censored:

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification

THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY.

YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE.

Delivery to the following recipient has been delayed:

[email protected]

Message will be retried for 2 more day(s)

Technical details of temporary failure:
Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 451 451 4.1.8 Domain of sender address [MY E-MAIL ADDRESS WHICH IS AT THE BINARYIDIOT.COM DOMAIN] does not resolve (state 14).

[MartinLiss]

It's not just your domain name. Mine is [email protected] and I got the same error. It's not really yadayada but you get the idea.

[Nightwalker83]

It's not just your domain name. Mine is [email protected] and I got the same error. It's not really yadayada but you get the idea.

Yeah, I use gmail too! I guess I'll receive an error message back sometime soon.

[Kasracer]

It's not just your domain name. Mine is [email protected] and I got the same error. It's not really yadayada but you get the idea.

Mine is at the BinaryIdiot.com domain, however; I use Google's business applications to host my e-mail which uses their GMail infrastructure. I wonder if it's related since, so far, all errors have happened from GMail.

Obviously the error was thrown on the VBForums.com side so I doubt it's a problem on Google's side but perhaps a configuration issue on VBForums.com side?

[RobDog888]

Details...

Reporting-MTA: dns; omr4.networksolutionsemail.com
Arrival-Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 13:06:35 -0500

Final-Recipient: RFC822; [email protected]
Action: delayed
Status: 4.1.8
Remote-MTA: DNS; boris.iworld.com
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 451 4.1.8 Domain of sender address [email protected] does not resolve
Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 17:25:42 -0500

**********************************************
** THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY **
** YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE **
**********************************************

The original message was received at Thu, 1 Jan 2009 13:06:35 -0500 from ns-omr4.mgt.netsol.com [10.49.6.67]

----- Transcript of session follows ----- ... while talking to boris.iworld.com.:
>>> DATA
<<< 451 4.1.8 Domain of sender address [email protected] does not resolve <[email protected]>... Deferred: 451 4.1.8 Domain of sender address [email protected] does not resolve <<< 503 5.0.0 Need RCPT (recipient)
Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours Will keep trying until message is 5 hours old

I dont use gmail and replace my email with "xxxx.xxxx.com"

[Nightwalker83]

I wonder if it's related since, so far, all errors have happened from GMail.

I doubt it is a problem with gmail since it does not cause an error when emailing anybody else from a gmail account. The only people to have replied to this thread all seem to use gmail so lets not accuse gmail until we get someone using hotmail or yahoomail sending an email and reporting on the response if any.

Edit:

RobDog888 posted while I was typing my response (see his post above)!

[Kasracer]

[...]so lets not accuse gmail [...]

If you actually read my complete response you'd realize I wasn't blaming GMail but thought maybe there was a configuration issue on VBForums.com's end that could be related to GMail (but I wasn't sure what that could be). I never thought the issue was on GMail's end otherwise there would be millions of people complaining.

[Nightwalker83]

If you actually read my complete response you'd realize I wasn't blaming GMail but thought maybe there was a configuration issue on VBForums.

Yeah, I know were not meaning to blame gmail but it just read as if you were. How do you mean the vbforums configuration could be interfering with gmail?

[Kasracer]

How do you mean the vbforums configuration could be interfering with gmail?

(but I wasn't sure what that could be)

I saw an emerging pattern and thought to investigate it first. I wasn't sure what the issue could be. I wasn't saying VBForums was interfering with GMail but perhaps there is a configuration GMail uses that VBForums wasn't prepared for.

[Nightwalker83]

@ RobDog,

I received the same email at 2:25pm 27 hours after I originally sent the email. I think that there an error with the sever vbforums is hosted on.

I saw an emerging pattern and thought to investigate it first. I wasn't sure what the issue could be. I wasn't saying VBForums was interfering with GMail but perhaps there is a configuration GMail uses that VBForums wasn't prepared for.

Although Robdog 888 is not using gmail and receives the same email error message. Was going to use my other email account to send an email. However, given what I just mentioned I do not think it will work.

[RobDog888]

There is the contact us form:

http://www.vbforums.com/sendmessage.php

Link "Contact Us" is at the bottom of the page.

Has anyone got an error with the Contact us form?

[Kasracer]

I just received the error again. It said it would try to deliver the message for one more day.

Has anyone got an error with the Contact us form?

I doubt we'd see any errors. The errors would most likely be thrown server-side since they wouldn't be coming from our SMTP servers but, instead, VBForums.com's own SMTP server.

[RobDog888]

It depends where the mail is hosted as it may not be on the same server that this forum is run off of. So if its throwing errors its another place where the Admins can look to help diagnose the errors

[brad jones]

Hopefully I can get Joe to look into this once this next week starts.

I sent two messages to the webmaster address via the form. They arrived; however, it took a while..... like nearly a day....


Hmmm.....

[RobDog888]

Well its the weekend so maybe the server was on a break

Have you tried sending via your own email client or webmail?

[Nightwalker83]

Has anyone got an error with the Contact us form?

I haven't tried the form but I don't think it would cause any errors! That is to say it would work 100% of the percent of the time. Like Kasracer says the errors would be coming from vbforums server so any errors would most likely show up on the server instead of the client.

[dclamp]

Has anyone got an error with the Contact us form?

The form does work. Although i think it is an internal messaging system. I used it last week and got a PM from Martin

[RobDog888]

No it actually sends a email using the servers account. So if its on the same sever then it would be a good internal test but thats already been confirmed as working. See above posts.