Re: [Slashcode-general] messaging emails

[alex <al...@ow...>]

>On Jan 8, 2004, at 7:05 AM, Alex McLintock wrote:
>Can someone tell me what sends the messaging emails configured through 
>this plugin
>>http://www.diversedvd.com/messages.pl
>>
>>This doesn't appear to be working on my (2.6ish) site although both slash 
>>and portald deamons appear to be running.
>>
>>I have set up a test user - the password email got sent fine, raised the 
>>user's seclevel to 1000, asked it to
>>email New Submissions, but the New Submissions email never appears.
>>
>>I can see the password email in the machine's mail log, but no others for 
>>this user.

At 14:30 08/01/04, Shane wrote:
>Which logs are you referring to? The machine's mailer (sendmail? qmail?) 
>logs,


Yes. /var/log/maillog

>or the Slash::Messages plugin's logs in /u/l/s/sites/{sitename}/logs? 
>there's a messaged.log in there,


Looked at that too. It seems to tell me that message_delivery script *is* 
running and doesn't *seem* to have any errors.

>and that'll show you if the plugins tasks (which handle the sending) have 
>been running. keep in mind that you can kickoff those tasks by hand w/ the 
>runtask command.

Cheers - I forgot that.


>Also look in the sql for the tables:
>
>| message_codes           |
>| message_drop            |
>| message_log             |
>| message_web             |
>| message_web_text        |
>
>and see what's in that _log and the _drop tables.


Cheers. I noticed the database tables and looked at them. It seems like 
message_drop is empty (presumably meaning there are no messages to send?) 
but message_log only has entries up to

20031217020003
20031217020005
20031218020004

which looks to me like it stopped working on the 18th of December last 
year. This is not surprising since that was roughly when this new box got 
made live with data from the old site. Hmmmm.

So (I ask myself) what writes to the message_drop or message_log tables? 
maybe that is not up to date, or broken in some other way....

(Goes to hunt some code :-)


Alex