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Phpbb3 and 1&1 VPS email notifications not working

After moving our phpbb3 installation from a shared hosting account to a VPS account with 1&1 all of a sudden our mail notifications were not working. We do not need a full blown mail server on our VPS so we still wanted to use the regular 1&1 SMTP servers to send out the mail for the board. After trading a few emails to 1&1 support we got it figured out. When we moved our domains over to the new VPS package we took one of our original accounts that was the account we were using for SMTP and made it a mail forward only. Once we gave that account an actually mailbox and password it worked.

Two things that are odd, one that it seems the mail does not send as quickly from the VPS package instead of the shared hosting, and the second one is that I tried to change the SMTP information in phpbb3 board to an account that had a real mailbox but it never worked. Also for some reason sending yourself test PM messages didn’t work, does the phpbb3 board know that you are sending them to yourself and then not allow you to get a notification?

Also I could never get the gmail SMTP stuff to work correctly even though I tried following what other people said.

phpbb3 conversion timeout and things of note, mods, etc

So here I am ready to convert my phpbb2 board to the nice new phpbb3. Well I try to run the conversion and I am using 1&1 hosting and it just times out. Do not have a big board either like 44,000 posts. I try again and the same thing. So I start doing some research and find this

http://www.phpbb.com/kb/article/offline-conversions/

Ok that sounds like it may be my only option but it sounds like a lot of work. I continue to search and luckily I then found the following.

http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=985935

I changed the values as stated in the install_convert.php and it seemed to work. It took a pretty long time as what happens is it does a few then gives you something like

Filling tables
Filling table phpbb3_posts:
skip_rows = 31341:

Each time you do it the number will go up and once you get to the number of posts you had in your forum you are all good.

After you go to phpbb3 though remember to resync everything in the control panel, I thought I was done for after all my posts said they were from 1969 but a resync and I was good to go.

Also remember if you make any changes to the design you have to purge the cache in the admin panel first to see them. Also as of right now there are not a ton of mods that are fully developed so you might want to look before you convert.

Good luck!