Will Taft

OK, thanks and don’t worry about whether it was helpful or not. I have seen your answers around this forum enough to know that most of the time when you chime in it is with a solution, so your input is appreciated.

I am getting optimistic that the daemon bounces will be greatly reduced by my making sure my admin email does not have an auto-responder on it.

The issue of registration and password emails not being sent is another question, though. A couple of us have asked at the end of this thread about an updated link to a possible solution, but no response yet. Can you take a look at that thread in case you can add anything there? Thanks!

Yes, it is odd, I thought it would be easy for them also. But they have not been able to figure it out. All I have been able to figure out on my own is that the secureserver does not like it if an email does not go through and the return email on my site has an auto responder on it.

I have been able to reduce the bounces by making all my administrative emails go to an address without an auto responder. The last one that causes a problem is that whenever a new user registers on my site, the initial password email is not sent to them. (Common problem in WP blogs, it seems, but that is a whole other issue.) I am hoping that by changing the email address in “options” to one without an auto responder, I might stop the last of these daemon messages.

I am hoping that someone eventually comes up with the solution to the “password is not sent” bug.

Thanks Justin! Unfortunately, secure server is godaddy and they are not yet able to figure out why it is bouncing around or why and where secure server is coming up with the “shepard” email address. Oh well.

I actually have another issue I have been working on today and can’t solve. I notice your blog does exactly what I want mine to do, so maybe you can help?

My site displays fine in Firefox. In IE it is also fine until a user opens up that left side panel that contains favorites and history which reduces the width of the screen. What I want is for my pages to automatically scroll with the horizontal scroll bar popping up on the bottom if the horizontal screen space gets too small to display the entire content. This is exactly what your blog does. On mine as the user widens the left side favorites panel, first the two sidebars are reduced in width and finally one bumps to the bottom of the page. I have tried making the sidebars and / or the main content area fixed widths instead of %’s. I can gain some control with these changes, but in no circumstance will the scroll bar come up.

Update: I set the sidebar to fixed widths in my theme and it did not seem to mess anything else up. (Crosses fingers!)

However, doing this did not fix the original issue. In IE, with the left side panel open to favorites or history, the screen still does not scroll. The side bar is reduced in width until it bumps to the bottom of the page.

What I want is for the horizontal scroll bar at the bottom of the IE window to come up, rather than trash the layout of the sidebar. How can I do that?

Here is a copy of one that was generated from a new user registration a few days ago. It is not the one I received this am as I already deleted that one. (I had about 25 of these in my inbox! I mucked up all the real email address below as I am paranoid about posting real emails in forum threads.

One common and strange thing about all the daemons is that they refer to an email address that starts with “shepard”. This is not a valid address and is not on my site or on the email accounts at my host. We have not been able to figure out where the daemon gets that address, but it is not from WordPress.

As I said above, I thought it was caused by the auto responder that I use on my email accounts so I set up an email account that does not auto respond. This seems to have reduced the number of daemons received.

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We’re sorry. There’s a problem with the e-mail address(es) you’re trying
to send to. Please verify the address(es) and try again. If you continue
to have problems, please contact Customer Support.

<shepard……secureserver.net>:
Sorry, I wasn’t able to establish an SMTP connection. (#4.4.1)
I’m not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too long.

— Below this line is a copy of the message.

Return-Path: <W…@.com>
Received: (qmail 15922 invoked by uid 1000); 26 May 2007 19:34:43 -0000
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Date: 26 May 2007 12:34:43 -0700
Delivered-To: [email protected]
Precedence: junk
To: shepard……05.shr.phx3.secureserver.net
From: “Will” <[email protected]>
Subject: [Auto-Reply] [WT . com] New User Registration

Thank you for contacting me. I will respond to your email as quickly as possible.

-Will