[phpws-comm-auto] [ phpwebsite-comm-/mod/mailinglists-1335206 ] Trouble Sending

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/mod/mailinglists item #1335206, was opened at 2005-10-22 20:18
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Category: Support Request
Group: None
>Status: Closed
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Josh Rogers (silverfox541)
Assigned to: Greg Meiste (blindman1344)
Summary: Trouble Sending

Initial Comment:
When sending to mailing lists on my site (riblets.org) I 
don't get any errors, and am led to believe the mail was 
sent just fine.

However, no mail is delivered, and there is no error in the 
apache logs or in the php error log.  I'm not sure what is 
going wrong.  I've read the README.txt and 
INSTALL.txt, and there isn't much that directs me where 
to look.  

There doesn't appear to be any settings on how mail is 
sent.  I use php mail on the same server w/out any 
trouble.  Is that how mailinglists sends mail, or does it 
use some other mechanism?

Thank you for help and direction/debugging.

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>Comment By: Greg Meiste (blindman1344)
Date: 2008-01-02 14:50

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Appears to be a setup issue.  The forum thread at
http://phpwsforums.com/showthread.php?t=2817 should help.

Greg

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Comment By: Josh Rogers (silverfox541)
Date: 2005-12-03 16:19

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I have since moved my website to a new server (Debian 
Sarge) and reinstalled everything, with the same results.  
I'm wondering if the folks having this trouble are all on 
Debian servers?  

What I'm mostly suprised about is the lack of error 
handling.  It seems that if it doesn't work, it just 
doesn't work but does not tell you (on the webpage, apache 
logs or php logs)  I wonder if it'd be possible to create 
a "error handling" mod that would allow other modules to 
use it like a library and report logs, or alert admins when 
there is a problem.

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Comment By: dlaflamm (dlaflamm)
Date: 2005-11-10 13:09

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I am a new user of phpws.  Installed mailing lists using
boost and got the success message.  Set up a list and
subscribed.  Never got an activation message, and status
shows inactive.  Tried again with a different username and
email.  Still no activation message.  Seems like no mail is
being sent.  Any advice?  I don't know PHP, so the level of
the discussion will have to be kept quite simple.  Thanks
for whatever help you can provide.
-David

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Comment By: Josh Rogers (silverfox541)
Date: 2005-10-28 23:45

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Yes, it is working now, however all sorts of new bugs have 
been introduced with his fix (mostly with how the notification 
emails work)  If he follows up on these bugs, I believe it'll 
result in an improvement (if we can verify that the encoding 
works for everyone)

Asterboy also has some good suggestions on streamlining 
(consolidating the send page, adding some useful options, 
etc)

I'm more than happy to work with you to isolate what is 
causing this problem.  If it can affect the two of us, sure it has 
affected others as well.  It'd be nice to find out what it is, and 
either fix it, or maybe get the boost script to identify the 
incompatibility at install time.

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Comment By: Greg Meiste (blindman1344)
Date: 2005-10-28 23:30

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Did asterboy (and/or his solution) work with you to get your
problem fixed?  The problem appears to be isolated to you
and him.

Sorry I couldn't help you more than I did.

Greg

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Comment By: Josh Rogers (silverfox541)
Date: 2005-10-24 00:37

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More specifically a problem with sending HTML format emails.

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Comment By: Josh Rogers (silverfox541)
Date: 2005-10-23 18:24

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# pear list
INSTALLED PACKAGES:
===================
PACKAGE              VERSION STATE
Archive_Tar          1.1     stable
Console_Getopt       1.2     stable
HTML_Template_IT     1.1     stable
Net_UserAgent_Detect 2.0.1   stable
PEAR                 1.3.6   stable
XML_RPC              1.4.0   stable

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Comment By: Josh Rogers (silverfox541)
Date: 2005-10-23 18:18

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Other useful info about my system:

# pear info pear | grep Version
Version         1.3.6
# php -v
PHP 4.3.10-15 (cli) (built: May  9 2005 08:54:56)
Copyright (c) 1997-2004 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v1.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2004 Zend 
Technologies
# apache -version
Server version: Apache/1.3.33 (Debian GNU/Linux)
Server built:   Nov 18 2004 11:09:51
phpws version: 10.1  (Asterboy is using 10.2 and was able to 
duplicate problem)

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Comment By: Josh Rogers (silverfox541)
Date: 2005-10-23 17:52

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See attached IRC log for some findings.  This appears to be a 
problem with Pear send()

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Comment By: Josh Rogers (silverfox541)
Date: 2005-10-23 03:24

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I have since tested using php mail(), and also using the pear 
mail example at 
http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.mail.mail.send.php 
with success.  I've also tested sending mail from the 
commandline (as the web server user) using the sendmail 
command syntax found in sendmail_path using phpinfo().  
These test emails were delivered w/out any trouble.

Not sure why I'm not finding an error anywhere, but mail sent 
from the module never arrives or bounces.

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