cscmail-users

[CSCMail-Users] Sending Mail Issue

[strider c. <st...@cc...>]

Hi. I need a little advice on my CSCMail installation. I just installed on
my Slackware box, and I'm running into this error message when I try to send
mail:

Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default.

The mail isn't ever sent. I'm currently not using a database, and I'm using
CSCMail 1.6.1, though I used 1.7.x awhile ago with the same result.

Thanks much for any help you can give.

- John Robinson

-- 

Love justice; desire mercy.

Re: [CSCMail-Users] Sending Mail Issue

[Count Z. <cou...@cy...>]

The "Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default" error is simply a perl
version difference issue.  ie: we attempt to assign a IGNORE default handler
to SIG CHLD to avoid zombie processes.  Some installations of perl do not
complain, others do, but ALL do the "right thing" and quietly clean up child
processes when they end.  In other words, this is a harmless error and has
nothing to do with your mail delivery problem.

(On my current system, I get that error every time CSCMail forks to run
cscget or cscsend, yet everything works 100%)

To troubleshoot your mail delivery problem, I need more information about
your installation.  Does the mail stay in your "Outbox" ?  If so, have you
tried running "cscsend" from the command line?  Does the mail get delivered
if you do that?

Are there any other errors printed to your console when you run CSCMail?

-Count Zero

----- Original Message -----
From: "strider corinth" <st...@cc...>
To: <csc...@li...>
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 8:52 PM
Subject: [CSCMail-Users] Sending Mail Issue


> Hi. I need a little advice on my CSCMail installation. I just installed on
> my Slackware box, and I'm running into this error message when I try to
send
> mail:
>
> Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default.
>
> The mail isn't ever sent. I'm currently not using a database, and I'm
using
> CSCMail 1.6.1, though I used 1.7.x awhile ago with the same result.
>
> Thanks much for any help you can give.
>
> - John Robinson
>
> --
>
> Love justice; desire mercy.
>
>
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Re: [CSCMail-Users] Sending Mail Issue

[strider c. <st...@cc...>]

>To troubleshoot your mail delivery problem, I need more information about
>your installation.  Does the mail stay in your "Outbox" ?  If so, have you
>tried running "cscsend" from the command line?  Does the mail get delivered
>if you do that?

If I run cscsend, I get this error:

Can't call method "getline" on an undefined value at /usr/bin/cscsend line 63.

The mail stays in the inbox when I try to send it from CSCMail.

>Are there any other errors printed to your console when you run CSCMail?

Nope. That's the only one.

- John

-- 

Love justice; desire mercy.

Re: [CSCMail-Users] Sending Mail Issue

[Count Z. <cou...@cy...>]

Ok, that means cscsend can't establish a TCP connection to your SMTP server
on port 25... To be honest, it's also a "bug" in cscsend in that we don't do
good error checking on stuff like that...

But the quick fix is for you to make sure that your SMTP server settings are
correct in your account configuration....

You might try telnetting to port 25 of your SMTP server, to make sure you
can connect that way...

telnet smtp.someisp.com 25

In future versions of CSCMail I will be doing better checking in routines
like this one, so that a nice friendly error message pops up saying
something like "Unable to connect to SMTP server, check settings and try
again"  but for now it is a bit less user friendly... sorry

-Count Zero

----- Original Message -----
From: "strider corinth" <st...@cc...>
To: <csc...@li...>
Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2001 12:57 AM
Subject: Re: [CSCMail-Users] Sending Mail Issue


> >To troubleshoot your mail delivery problem, I need more information about
> >your installation.  Does the mail stay in your "Outbox" ?  If so, have
you
> >tried running "cscsend" from the command line?  Does the mail get
delivered
> >if you do that?
>
> If I run cscsend, I get this error:
>
> Can't call method "getline" on an undefined value at /usr/bin/cscsend line
63.
>
> The mail stays in the inbox when I try to send it from CSCMail.
>
> >Are there any other errors printed to your console when you run CSCMail?
>
> Nope. That's the only one.
>
> - John
>
> --
>
> Love justice; desire mercy.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> | Be sure to read the CSCMail FAQ:
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> |
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Re: [CSCMail-Users] Sending Mail Issue

[strider c. <st...@cc...>]

>Ok, that means cscsend can't establish a TCP connection to your SMTP server
>on port 25... To be honest, it's also a "bug" in cscsend in that we don't do
>good error checking on stuff like that...
>
>But the quick fix is for you to make sure that your SMTP server settings are
>correct in your account configuration....
>
>You might try telnetting to port 25 of your SMTP server, to make sure you
>can connect that way...
>
>telnet smtp.someisp.com 25
>
>In future versions of CSCMail I will be doing better checking in routines
>like this one, so that a nice friendly error message pops up saying
>something like "Unable to connect to SMTP server, check settings and try
>again"  but for now it is a bit less user friendly... sorry

No prob. I'm sure that's the problem... when I was using an ssh tunnel
before (which worked for POP) it didn't work, and didn't say it couldn't be
reached, so I assumed that wasn't the problem without really checking. I
should've been more thorough.

Speaking of tunneling, it'd be really great if we could choose the port that
SMTP travels over as well as POP. I don't like using root to set up my SSH
tunnel, but I have to as long as smtp will only work on port 25. I'm sure I
could hack it, but for the long term could that be added as a feature?

- John

-- 

Love justice; desire mercy.

Re: [CSCMail-Users] Sending Mail Issue

[Count Z. <cou...@cy...>]

Yeah, in the C version that will be completely configurable... for now, you
can simply edit cscsend, line 60, where it says "PeerPort => 'smtp(25)'"
make it say "PeerPort => '8025'" or whatever port you want to tunnel
through...

-Count Zero

----- Original Message -----
From: "strider corinth" <st...@cc...>
To: "Count Zero" <cou...@cy...>
Cc: <csc...@li...>
Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2001 11:27 PM
Subject: Re: [CSCMail-Users] Sending Mail Issue


> >Ok, that means cscsend can't establish a TCP connection to your SMTP
server
> >on port 25... To be honest, it's also a "bug" in cscsend in that we don't
do
> >good error checking on stuff like that...
> >
> >But the quick fix is for you to make sure that your SMTP server settings
are
> >correct in your account configuration....
> >
> >You might try telnetting to port 25 of your SMTP server, to make sure you
> >can connect that way...
> >
> >telnet smtp.someisp.com 25
> >
> >In future versions of CSCMail I will be doing better checking in routines
> >like this one, so that a nice friendly error message pops up saying
> >something like "Unable to connect to SMTP server, check settings and try
> >again"  but for now it is a bit less user friendly... sorry
>
> No prob. I'm sure that's the problem... when I was using an ssh tunnel
> before (which worked for POP) it didn't work, and didn't say it couldn't
be
> reached, so I assumed that wasn't the problem without really checking. I
> should've been more thorough.
>
> Speaking of tunneling, it'd be really great if we could choose the port
that
> SMTP travels over as well as POP. I don't like using root to set up my SSH
> tunnel, but I have to as long as smtp will only work on port 25. I'm sure
I
> could hack it, but for the long term could that be added as a feature?
>
> - John
>
> --
>
> Love justice; desire mercy.
>
>