Re: Cannot get email to work at all, configuation problem?, posted by Stefan Ritt on Sun Aug 13 11:15:49 2006
|
| Checker Anderson wrote: | I an new to elog and the only thing I cannot seem to configure correctly is my SMTP information. Here is a sample of my config file:
SMTP host = checkeranderson.com
SMTP username = Checker@realchecker
SMTP Password = eWFod2Vo
I host my own mail server which uses authentication and my password was set using -t on the command line. With SMTP host = I have tried smtp.checkeranderson.com (which is how my mail program puts it) and mail.checkeranderson.com which is how my DNS server has it. The user name and password are correct. When I edit or reply to any topic I get the message "Error sending Email via "checkeranderson.com"" I have struggled with this for hours and I know I must be missing something that would be obvious to anyone else. Can anyone help me? |
Start the ELOG server manually in a DOS box with the "-v" flag, like
> cd \Program Files\ELOG
> elogd.exe -v
(you first might have to stop the elog service via "net stop elogd"). Now you see all communication between the browser and elog and between elog and the SMTP server. If you now try to send an email, you will see the detailed error information returned by your SMTP server. |
|
Re: Cannot get email to work at all, configuation problem?, posted by Checker Anderson on Sun Aug 13 15:49:06 2006
|
Here is what I am seeing when I use the -v option. I do not recognize what is generating the error message, but pperhaps you will. Thanks.
Email from checker@checkeranderson.com to checker@checkeranderson.com,checker@ch
eckeranderson.com, SMTP host smtp.checkeranderson.com:
220 checkeranderson.com ESMTP MailEnable Service, Version: 1.91-- ready at 08/13
/06 08:34:25
EHLO CHECKER
250-checkeranderson.com [192.168.1.1], this server offers 4 extensions
250-AUTH LOGIN
250-SIZE 5120000
250-HELP
250 AUTH=LOGIN
==== Return ================================
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Server: ELOG HTTP 2.6.2-1699
Connection: Keep-Alive
Keep-Alive: timeout=60, max=10
Location: http://checkeranderson.com:696/Checkers+Blog/9?error=Error+sending+Ema
il+via+<i>"smtp.checkeranderson.com"</i>
Content-Length: 20 |
Re: Cannot get email to work at all, configuation problem?, posted by Checker Anderson on Sun Aug 13 17:56:24 2006
|
| Okay, I got it working but I had to change the authentication method of my mail server to Pop before SMTP. I do not know why the username/password doesn't work - it does work with Outlook Express. I would rather use the username/password method, but atleast things are working now. |
|
Re: Cannot get email to work at all, configuation problem?, posted by Stefan Ritt on Tue Aug 15 13:25:00 2006
|
| Checker Anderson wrote: | | Okay, I got it working but I had to change the authentication method of my mail server to Pop before SMTP. I do not know why the username/password doesn't work - it does work with Outlook Express. I would rather use the username/password method, but atleast things are working now. |
That's really strange, since elog does not do any pop at all. So "pop before SMTP" won't help. The elogd message log in the previous message seems truncated to me, you should get something like
Email from stefan.ritt@psi.ch to stefan.ritt@psi.ch, SMTP host mail.psi.ch:
220 MAILSEND02.psi.ch mailsend02vs01 Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:22:24 +0200
HELO pc4534.psi.ch
250 MAILSEND02.psi.ch Hello [129.129.228.115]
MAIL FROM: stefan.ritt@psi.ch
250 2.1.0 stefan.ritt@psi.ch....Sender OK
RCPT TO: <stefan.ritt@psi.ch>
250 2.1.5 stefan.ritt@psi.ch
DATA
354 Start mail input; end with <CRLF>.<CRLF>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:22:23 +0200
To: stefan.ritt@psi.ch,
From: Stefan Ritt <stefan.ritt@psi.ch>
User-Agent: Elog Version 2.6.2
Subject: Updated ELOG entry
X-Elog-URL: http://localhost:8080/demo/7
X-Elog-submit-type: web|elog
Content-Type: text/html; charset="ISO-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
...
In your case there should even be more than that due to the authentication (our sever does not use username authentification). Maybe you have an error there in the authentication. |
|
Re: Cannot connect to server of Gmail SMTP, posted by Stefan Ritt on Mon Oct 7 08:54:32 2019
|
Gmail uses a type of SMTP authentication which is currently not supported by elog. It's however on the todo list.
Stefan
| Kevin Wang wrote: |
|
Hi all,
When I tried to set SMTP server of Gmail in the global configuration file, I get the message "Error sending Email via <i>"smtp.gmail.com"</i>: Cannot connect to server" after I tried to receive the Email notification. Is there anyone gives help to solve this issue?
Thanks!
Kevin
|
|
|
Re: Cannot connect to server of Gmail SMTP, posted by Kevin Wang on Tue Oct 8 05:42:56 2019
|
Hi Stefan,
Thank you very much for your reply. So which SMTP type can I use now? Is outlook OK?
Kevin
| Stefan Ritt wrote: |
|
Gmail uses a type of SMTP authentication which is currently not supported by elog. It's however on the todo list.
Stefan
| Kevin Wang wrote: |
|
Hi all,
When I tried to set SMTP server of Gmail in the global configuration file, I get the message "Error sending Email via <i>"smtp.gmail.com"</i>: Cannot connect to server" after I tried to receive the Email notification. Is there anyone gives help to solve this issue?
Thanks!
Kevin
|
|
|
|
Re: Cannot connect to server of Gmail SMTP, posted by John on Tue Oct 8 06:47:27 2019
|
This is a local issue on your network, if you have a mail server setup. SMTP is not handled directly by Elog and neither is any other mail protocal. Elog just sends the requested email to your server for processing to the recipients afaict. And whatever server (or service) you use to handle email sending needs to be able to accept them from your mail server. So after verifying which ones you want to use; (like OutLook, or gmail, or whatever), then have your local email server set up to work with them. You can prol have a 3rd party do this was well (instead of your own local one) but then they would STILL need to be able to work with whatever guidlines the actual sender (gmail, hotmail..) requires to have mail sent. Email is a lonnng trail of different providers, servers, and other actors..
Halvy
| Kevin Wang wrote: |
|
Hi Stefan,
Thank you very much for your reply. So which SMTP type can I use now? Is outlook OK?
Kevin
| Stefan Ritt wrote: |
|
Gmail uses a type of SMTP authentication which is currently not supported by elog. It's however on the todo list.
Stefan
| Kevin Wang wrote: |
|
Hi all,
When I tried to set SMTP server of Gmail in the global configuration file, I get the message "Error sending Email via <i>"smtp.gmail.com"</i>: Cannot connect to server" after I tried to receive the Email notification. Is there anyone gives help to solve this issue?
Thanks!
Kevin
|
|
|
|
|
Re: Cannot bind to port 8080, posted by Stefan Ritt on Mon Sep 20 14:54:21 2010
|
| marco meneghelli wrote: |
|
good morning,
I have installed elog 2.8.0 from terminal but when I type
elogd -p 80
or simply
elogd
the system tells me
Cannot bind to port 8080
Can someone help me?
Thanks
Marco M
|
Under linux, only the "root" user can start programs on ports below 1024. If you get problems binding to ports above 1024 (such as 8080) it means that some other program uses already that port. You can check what is running usually with
netstat -l -p
|