I'm seeing someting like this also (JF-448 )...
Have v2.1.14 installed, with j2sdk1.4.2_06 and postgres. Initially, "Watch" emails were not working, then seeing mention of moderator settings interferring with this, I turned that off for all categories, forums, groups, and users. And that seemed to make it work on my
test.
But, turning "Is a moderator" back to "true" for an unrelated group broke the Watcher emails again, this time it seems for good.
I have SMTP set to "localhost" and authentication turned off. Other mailings work fine.
I don't see anything turn up in the logs for any of this.
All I can think of doing is re-installing and never setting up moderators for this version. Unless someone else has found a workaround.
thx!
[originally posted on jforum.net by ken0]