Re: [TCLCORE] Report of Tcl/Tk biweekly telco

[Schelte B. <tc...@tc...>]

On 20/01/2025 22:20, Francois Vogel wrote:
> With the help of Roy Keene (many thanks again!), I got email alerts 
> working for my rtext repository at Chiselapp. Now that I know how to do 
> it I can easily propagate my fresh knowledge.

I knew this is how to do it on chiselapp. Unfortunately the same method 
doesn't work on core. The error indicates that the /data/mail.sql 
database does not exist. I sent a mail to Roy to ask for assistance,

Before I knew about the database, I used the SMTP relay method. I set up 
postfix on an obscure port on my server at home and punched a hole in 
the firewall to allow access from the chiselapp IP address only. That 
worked for me, but I don't think it's a feasible solution for the core 
repositories. I cannot guarantee reliability and considering that there 
are already thousands of messages queued up for the Tcl repository 
alone, I expect my ISP will block me for sending spam when those are all 
released at once through my server.

If there is some other place where we could set up a mail relay server, 
that could be an alternative.


Schelte.