g4ugm
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The old Forum had an RSS feed which you could use to see new posts. I can't find anything for this one...
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Thanks, Timo, It works for me just fine. resolves toRSS is pretty much dead since 2013.
But acutally, if you scoll all the way down, there's a RSS icon at the bottom right. Does not work, however (it serves me a .php file).
Dec 29 23:35:20 mailserver postfix/smtpd[28544]: connect from forum.vcfed.org[184.72.217.124]
Dec 29 23:35:20 mailserver postfix/smtpd[28544]: setting up TLS connection from forum.vcfed.org[184.72.217.124]
Dec 29 23:35:20 mailserver postfix/smtpd[28544]: TLS connection established from forum.vcfed.org[184.72.217.124]: TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)
Dec 29 23:35:23 mailserver postfix/policy-spf[28548]: : SPF SoftFail (Mechanism '~all' matched): Envelope-from: broswell@syssrc.com
Dec 29 23:35:23 mailserver postfix/policy-spf[28548]: handler sender_policy_framework: is decisive.
Dec 29 23:35:23 mailserver postfix/policy-spf[28548]: : Policy action=REJECT SPF check returned softfail, so the message is flagged as SPAM.
Dec 29 23:35:23 mailserver postfix/smtpd[28544]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from forum.vcfed.org[184.72.217.124]: 554 5.7.1 <pepinno@domain.com>: Recipient address rejected: SPF check returned softfail, so the message is flagged as SPAM.; from=<broswell@syssrc.com> to=<pepinno@domain.com> proto=ESMTP helo=<forum.vcfed.org>
Dec 29 23:35:23 mailserver postfix/smtpd[28544]: disconnect from forum.vcfed.org[184.72.217.124]
They can. Every forum software I know is able to. It will purge all personal data and the user name becomes something like deleted_432652. You can also choose whether or not to delete all messages.I doubt they can actually delete your account. It will be tied to all your messages and whatnot. The database won't allow that to happen as it would invalidate table rows all over the place. They could probably hack all passwords and e-mails to just be random characters that are useless to anyone.
oops I should have said Bitsavers has RSS feed which I find so usefull...RSS is pretty much dead since 2013.
But acutally, if you scoll all the way down, there's a RSS icon at the bottom right. Does not work, however (it serves me a .php file).
Well, that's not really the same as deleting your account. That is simply replacing it with junk. As I said the database software willThey can. Every forum software I know is able to. It will purge all personal data and the user name becomes something like deleted_432652. You can also choose whether or not to delete all messages.
My thoughts exactly. You can't simply rip data out of a database without affecting other data (tables). Or it can be done but requires lots of work to fix up this removal.The old Vbulletin software predated GDPR and dates back to when selective post and thread deletions were easy but complete account deletions required surgical database work unless the person had just joined and immediately started spamming and ISTR on at least one occasion after GDPR became mandatory (I still think it's stupid) mbbrutman and someone else had to go in and erase someone who would not shut up about the inability to make themselves disappear and they had way more than a dozen posts. It was messy because just removing them orphaned post quotes and even entire threads made by the user and the database didn't like that.
The last forum update, I have no idea how it handles account deletions but since it postdates GDPR it's almost certainly included.
Just scramble the password file.
Mine don't disappear after being read and I don't see any change in their color. I must be missing something. Any suggestions?Mine disappear after I have read them.
If I then Select “What’s new” my “read” items are identified from my “unread” items in a slightly lighter colour.
I am happy with this behaviour.
Dave
This might work for threads that were made in VBulletin5 (Xenforo offers an id preservation option when you do the upgrade). But it will not work for any VBulletin4 links, because the conversion from vb4 to vb5 does not preserve id's.Thank you to @modem7 for pointing this out, but there is a conversion from old posts to new. Using his example:
http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?53134-Adding-lowercase-to-a-Model-1-in-2016
does not convert to:
https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/Adding-lowercase-to-a-Model-1-in-2016.53134
That error makes sense. I just changed the default and reply to email addresses to forum@vcfed.org and would be interested to know if this fixes the issue. The VCFed domain is actually a Google Workspace domain, and this forum is hosted in AWS, so I may have some more work to do with them on getting SPF/DMARC/DKIM and an email relay working for that email address.OK, so it looks like I'm not getting email notifications from the forum, after the migration.
I host my own email, and in my email server logs I see this:
Which means that the MAIL-FROM address in the SMTP "envelope", in the emails sent from the new forum software, is broswell@syssrc.com, and that the new forum's IP address 184.72.217.124 is not explicitly authorized in the SPF record for the domain "syssrc.com" to send email with that domain in the MAIL-FROM address.
I guess the MAIL-FROM address in the SMTP "envelope" in the emails sent from the new forum software probably should be changed to something in the domain "vcfed.org" (for example, forum-admin@vcfed.org), or else if the current set up is as intended for production use then the forum's IP address 184.72.217.124 should be added to the SPF record of the "syssrc.com" domain (in order to avoid getting a "softfail result" in the SPF check when the forum's email is received, and therefore getting a better anti-spam score, and therefore maximazing the probability of reaching the recipient's Inbox).
With this I am happy that I can help, for email falls into my area of expertise.
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If you do that, PLEASE invalidate all passwords and email addresses stored there! Since it's just an archive then, no one will maintain or ever again update it. Which of course means that as soon as a security flaw is known for that outdated version, the forum may get attacked and the database leaked.
Should that not be possible or wanted, I ask you to completely delete my account from the old forum. Thanks.
I'm still not getting the email messages from the new forum software (yes, I could set up an ad-hoc exception in my email server to be able to successfully receive them, but let's do the work to "sanitize" the new forum's mail flow).That error makes sense. I just changed the default and reply to email addresses to forum@vcfed.org and would be interested to know if this fixes the issue. The VCFed domain is actually a Google Workspace domain, and this forum is hosted in AWS, so I may have some more work to do with them on getting SPF/DMARC/DKIM and an email relay working for that email address.
Jan 2 06:01:38 mailserver postfix/smtpd[26755]: connect from forum.vcfed.org[184.72.217.124]
Jan 2 06:01:39 mailserver postfix/smtpd[26755]: setting up TLS connection from forum.vcfed.org[184.72.217.124]
Jan 2 06:01:39 mailserver postfix/smtpd[26755]: TLS connection established from forum.vcfed.org[184.72.217.124]: TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)
Jan 2 06:01:42 mailserver postfix/policy-spf[26760]: : SPF SoftFail (Mechanism '~all' matched): Envelope-from: forum@vcfed.org
Jan 2 06:01:42 mailserver postfix/policy-spf[26760]: handler sender_policy_framework: is decisive.
Jan 2 06:01:42 mailserver postfix/policy-spf[26760]: : Policy action=REJECT SPF check returned softfail, so the message is flagged as SPAM.
Jan 2 06:01:42 mailserver postfix/smtpd[26755]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from forum.vcfed.org[184.72.217.124]: 554 5.7.1 <pepinno@domain.com>: Recipient address rejected: SPF check returned softfail, so the message is flagged as SPAM.; from=<forum@vcfed.org> to=<pepinno@domain.com> proto=ESMTP helo=<forum.vcfed.org>
Jan 2 06:01:42 mailserver postfix/smtpd[26755]: disconnect from forum.vcfed.org[184.72.217.124]
v=spf1 +a +mx include:_spf.google.com +ip4:54.236.142.0 +ip4:162.208.84.230 +ip4:162.208.84.200 +ip4:162.208.84.225 +ip4:199.193.246.42 ~all
v=spf1 +a +mx include:_spf.google.com +ip4:54.236.142.0 +ip4:162.208.84.230 +ip4:162.208.84.200 +ip4:162.208.84.225 +ip4:199.193.246.42 +ip4:184.72.217.124 ~all