SMTP, Cron issue and autoredirect

I am writing about three issues I am facing as I try to learn this software.

The first is that the SMTP is not working. I had removed Google App mail and reverted back to my server mail. I did configure it correctly once. However due to one particular issue, I uninstalled Dophin and reinstalled, and the SMTP is not working anymore.

The second issue is connected to Cron job. After doing what had been instructed, my email inbox is regularly getting a lot of error messages. In fact, it is now in thousands. I am attaching three images connected to this issue.

The third issue is connected to the Forum pages. Once it is opened, a big Search Box appears on the right side. if a Word search is initiated, the page moves to a bigger Search page, and then automatically redirects itself into a blank error page. I first thought it might be something to do with my own computer and local setting. So, I ask a far off associate to check this and he send me an image of the same error. This image also I am attaching here.

If anyone can tell me what to do next, it might be a great help.

I need to inform that after Unchecking the 'Enable SMTP mailer' and using the following settings: 

SMTP server port number: 587

I don't know about issue 1 and 3 right off hand, but issue 2 and screen shot cron123.jpg you need to remove the mailto ***** part from the cron command.

You have:
M H D M W Command
* * * * * MAILTO=XXXX@XXXXX.XXX.XX * * * * * cd /home/XXXX/public_html/e/periodic; /usr/local/bin php -q cron.php

It should be more like:
M H D M W Command
* * * * * cd /home/XXXX/public_html/e/periodic; /usr/local/bin php -q cron.php

Bold part needs to be removed.

I tried the forum at the Boonex demo site demo.boonex.com/forum/ and I entered test in the search box and it redirected to a Not Found page with an error:
The requested URL /modules/boonex/forum/action=goto&search_result=1&test&msgs&0&&posts&0 was not found on this server.

So it is basically doing the same or similar thing as your site. At this point I don't follow all the bug reports/fixes and github updates. Could be an update over there. I don't know for certain. I'll be waiting until they get a lot of these things worked out before I jump into D7.2.

Actually the command should just be this.

cd /home/victoria/public_html/e/periodic; /usr/local/bin php -q cron.php

No * * * *

The * just represents the times the cron job should run and is not to be part of the cron job command. So the command itself needs to be edited to set it to just cd /home/victoria/public_html/e/periodic; /usr/local/bin php -q cron.php. The times it is to run you already have set correctly.

 
From the service menu builder in the builders section in admin. Just edit the join item and uncheck the guests checkbox or drag it out into the inactive area.

The problem has been fixed and will be available in upcoming 7.2.1 version:

https://github.com/boonex/dolphin.pro/commit/062d472a57e0be3c53120392ecabee84cfaa570a