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hello mybb community,

i have 2 pretty big problems that i cant fix, i have spoke to godaddy who is my host and they say both problems are with my website.
so here are my problems (i have done weeks of research trying to fix this but failed every time so i have turned to the experts).

problem 1

something somewhere on the website is sending 1000 emails a day.
this started on the 12th january and jumped up from around 30 emails a day witch is about what gets sent out as activation emails,

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/34524873/email.PNG

because my emails are hitting my sending limit of 1000 a day my website is not sending activation emails anymore, i have no idea how these emails are being sent but i have no system mail logs/user email logs.
i have tried running tests by making a .php and sending myself an email, i get no errors and it says it was sent but i get no email so i assume my emails are not sending because i'm at my limit.

problem 2

i'm not sure if this happened around the same time but if you make a post in the forums you get a -

Server error
The website encountered an error while retrieving http://backdoorgaming.com/newreply.php?t...rocessed=1. It may be down for maintenance or configured incorrectly.
Here are some suggestions:
Reload this webpage later.
HTTP Error 500 (Internal Server Error): An unexpected condition was encountered while the server was attempting to fulfill the request.

and when you reload the page you get -

Can not upload file - Too large for php post_max_size directive. Please press the back button.

everything you type dose get posted but you get that error everytime you make a post/thread

The website is www.backdoorgaming.com
i have made a test account if anyone wants to check out the problem
username - Test1
password - password

if anyone could help with this i would be very greatful
thank you for you time

1. Have you sent out any mass mails? If so, check the Mass Mail section. There's a nasty bug that causes the task to not run properly.

For your second problem. I believe it may be a limit you can set in the cPanel either that or it's a problem regarding your Host.

(2013-02-28, 02:04 AM)StingReay Wrote: [ -> ]1. Have you sent out any mass mails? If so, check the Mass Mail section. There's a nasty bug that causes the task to not run properly.

both the mass mail queue and archive are empty i'm sure i have checked that before but i just double checked, thanks anyway

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(2013-02-28, 02:07 AM)BlueEew Wrote: [ -> ]For your second problem. I believe it may be a limit you can set in the cPanel either that or it's a problem regarding your Host.

i cant find any setting for this anywhere and read that you can change it in the php.ini file but it was set to 128m which i have read should be more than enough but i may be wrong i'm new to websites and mybb i kinda got thew in at the deep end when one of the other admins left the website to go to uni.

here is my php.ini

[Pcre]

[sqlite]

[intl]

[bcmath]
bcmath.scale = 0

[gd]

[MySQL]
mysql.default_socket = 
mysql.max_links = -1
mysql.default_password = 
mysql.default_port = 
mysql.allow_persistent = On
mysql.max_persistent = -1
mysql.default_user = 
mysql.default_host = 
mysql.trace_mode = Off
mysql.connect_timeout = 60

[COM]

[iconv]

[exif]

[ODBC]
odbc.allow_persistent = On
odbc.defaultbinmode = 1
odbc.max_links = -1
odbc.check_persistent = On
odbc.defaultlrl = 4096
odbc.max_persistent = -1

[Session]
session.bug_compat_42 = Off
session.auto_start = 0
session.cache_limiter = nocache
session.bug_compat_warn = Off
session.hash_function = 0
url_rewriter.tags = "a=href,area=href,frame=src,input=src,form=fakeentry"
session.name = PHPSESSID
session.use_only_cookies = 1
session.entropy_length = 0
session.serialize_handler = php
session.cookie_path = /
session.entropy_file = 
session.gc_probability = 1
session.cache_expire = 180
session.gc_divisor = 1000
session.cookie_domain = 
session.cookie_httponly = 
session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440
session.referer_check = 
session.save_handler = files
session.save_path = "/var/lib/php/session"
session.cookie_lifetime = 0
session.use_cookies = 1
session.use_trans_sid = 0
session.hash_bits_per_character = 5

[mbstring]

[sqlite3]

[sysvshm]

[soap]
soap.wsdl_cache_ttl = 86400
soap.wsdl_cache_enabled = 1
soap.wsdl_cache_dir = "/tmp"

[mail function]
mail.add_x_header = On
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i
smtp_port = 25
smtp = localhost

[PostgresSQL]
pgsql.max_links = -1
pgsql.allow_persistent = On
pgsql.log_notice = 0
pgsql.auto_reset_persistent = Off
pgsql.ignore_notice = 0
pgsql.max_persistent = -1

[Phar]

[Assertion]

[Pdo]

[Date]

[MySQLi]
mysqli.default_host = 
mysqli.default_pw = 
mysqli.reconnect = Off
mysqli.default_user = 
mysqli.default_socket = 
mysqli.max_links = -1
mysqli.default_port = 3306

[Tidy]
tidy.clean_output = Off

[Sybase-CT]
sybct.allow_persistent = On
sybct.max_persistent = -1
sybct.min_client_severity = 10
sybct.max_links = -1
sybct.min_server_severity = 10

[filter]

[Syslog]
define_syslog_variables = Off

[browscap]

[SQL]
sql.safe_mode = Off

[PHP]
asp_tags = Off
include_path = ".:"
ignore_repeated_source = Off
variables_order = "GPCS"
track_errors = Off
output_buffering = 4096
auto_globals_jit = On
doc_root = 
log_errors = On
safe_mode_allowed_env_vars = PHP_
safe_mode_protected_env_vars = LD_LIBRARY_PATH
auto_append_file = 
disable_classes = 
display_startup_errors = Off
user_dir = 
enable_dl = Off
register_argc_argv = Off
display_errors = Off
open_basedir = "/var/www/vhosts/backdoorgaming.com/:/tmp/"
allow_call_time_pass_reference = Off
safe_mode_exec_dir = 
default_socket_timeout = 60
html_errors = Off
register_globals = Off
unserialize_callback_func = 
y2k_compliance = On
magic_quotes_runtime = Off
expose_php = Off
log_errors_max_len = 1024
post_max_size = "128m"
report_memleaks = On
engine = On
memory_limit = 128M
short_open_tag = On
max_execution_time = 60
safe_mode_include_dir = 
serialize_precision = 100
precision = 14
upload_max_filesize = 128M
register_long_arrays = Off
safe_mode = off
zlib.output_compression = Off
ignore_repeated_errors = Off
request_order = "GP"
default_mimetype = "text/html"
allow_url_include = Off
disable_functions = 
file_uploads = On
magic_quotes_sybase = Off
max_input_time = 60
magic_quotes_gpc = Off
error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_DEPRECATED
safe_mode_gid = Off
auto_prepend_file = 
implicit_flush = Off
allow_url_fopen = On

[MSSQL]
mssql.compatability_mode = Off
mssql.allow_persistent = On
mssql.max_persistent = -1
mssql.min_error_severity = 10
mssql.min_message_severity = 10
mssql.max_links = -1
mssql.secure_connection = Off

That php error after posting happens when you submit a post, it fails, and you reload it. It requires you to post it normally, it must succeed on the page, otherwise you'll have to go all the way back and try submitting it again.

(2013-02-28, 10:02 AM)Lith Wrote: [ -> ]That php error after posting happens when you submit a post, it fails, and you reload it. It requires you to post it normally, it must succeed on the page, otherwise you'll have to go all the way back and try submitting it again.

sorry don't quite understand what your saying
" It requires you to post it normally"
this happens to all members however you post.

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update,

i have made two other mybb websites on my server
www.minecraftgameplay.com & www.backdoorcheats.com
both of these websites don't send the activation emails but i presume that is still because i'm still at my server limit for emails but both sites let you post topics/posts without a problem so could this mean that the
"Can not upload file - Too large for php post_max_size directive. Please press the back button."
error is with my website and not with my server?

also someone told me that someone could have infected my website with some kind of html code that is sending out the emails without us knowing or a bot is sending them by exploiting the "contact us" link in some way, could this be true?

It could be with your website, I mean, your files could be messed up some how. I just know that "php post_max_size" error comes from when you try submitting a post, it fails, then you try submitting again by refreshing and posting the data, which wont work like that.