Hi ELOG Community,

Please help me to configure my smtp server in Windows using gmail server

This is what in my config:

SMTP host = smtp.gmail.com

SMTP username = raymund.dawang@engagis.com (company email subscribing in gmail)
SMTP Password = xxxxxxx
 

And I was prompted by this error in elog: Error sending Email via <i>"smtp.gmail.com"</i>: 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first. ir5sm11631778pbc.13 - gsmtp

Apprecite you help. Thanks.

Elog does not directly support TLS encryption. See here for a wrokaround: elog:68039

Thanks Stefan,

I checked in my ELOG folder and can't find the stunnel.cfg. Is that only available in Linux? Can you please recommend a third party SMTP server for me use to successfully enable mail notif via Windows OS. Thanks much

Cheers,

Raymund

I believe there is a stunnel port for Windows, but that's more for the experienced users. I guess there is no simple solution.

Stefan

Hi Stefan,

I remeber when I used elog email notif feature in my previous workplace which is running in windows, I just put IP address on SMTP host = X.X.X.X at the config file and it run without any problem. I'm thinking they are using SMTP server. Can you please recommend any SMTP server and SMTP relayer site that I can use to be able to successfully send my email notification. I tried SendGrid SMTP cloud server but i have hard time and still failing. you might recommend SMTP server that you are using now in your elog site. Thank you so much.

Hi,

I'm having an issue with Elog 3.1.1 on windows 10 not displaying all log entries (after a certain date) in a logbook directory.

The logbook is saved in a Dropbox folder and the entries were created on a windows 8.1 PC with 3.1.1 also.

I created an entry in windows 10, this created a new log file (new day) with a duplicate ID, deleted the log file and then the windows 10 pc displayed all entries.

Is there any way to ensure Elogd picks up all log files ?

Thanks & Regards,

Mike

Besides the commen Andrea made I would like to add that you can convince elog to show all files if you simply restart it, then it will re-scan all files. But as Andreas said, if two elogd instances write to the same directory, you will get a mess with double IDs of entries.

Stefan

Thanks very much for your comments. I will take a look at the mirror server functionality.

I have only been running one elogd at a time, restarting elogd (on Windows 10) doesn't seem to pick up the changes made on Windows 8.1 PC (stopped elogd after changes made and log file updated)

Mike

Ah, I see another problem. The pre 3.1 version had all logbook files in one directory, and the 3.1 puts the files in one subdirectoy per year. On transition from 3.0 to 3.1, an automatic conversion is made, but only once. If you later add files into the root logbook directory, they will not be seen. So you have to move them manually into the right subdirectory.

Hi, I have noticed that if an entry is not submitted it is saved in a sub-folder (name is current ID number) eg http://localhost:8090/mike/23, while draft it doesn't appear in list page but you can browse directly to it.

When you update an entry on one server instance, if you then browse to the entry ID on the 2nd server instance it is draft. If you edit then submit the entry then appears in list page on 2nd server instance.

Thanks again.

Drafts are not shown in the list page, but you can browse directly to them, if you know their idea. They are also shown if you hit "new". Then a box comes up "You have unfished drafts, do you want to edit them?". This is the new draft feature introduced recently and a feature of elog.

But I guess you have a more general problem. You run two elogd severs, and you transfer information between the two servers via Dropbox. Elog is not made for that. Elog is a web server, so you don't have to transfer data via a could service (except maybe for backup). You can access your one and only elog instance from everywhere. Everything else will give you trouble.

Understood, Thanks very much for your help.

I tried to paste an Image from Clipboard into the CKEditor 4.5.1. Unfortunatelly, that doesn't work. I used Firefox, version 42. When I  looked in the javascript error console, it reported that "TypeError: b is undefined, ckeditor.js:1139:112". The variable  d.config.filebrowserImageUploadUrl could not be found.

I set the variable in the file ckeditor-config.js in the folder scripts, but that didn't solve the problem. As far as I can tell, Pasting Image from Clipboard does not work in this forum neither, but I don't know whether this is in purpose.

Pasting via the button "Paste from Word" works as it inserts a 64base formated image, but that's not what I'm searching for. Also normal upload of files works fine and puts the file in the correct folder (logbook/year/)

That seems a CKEditor problem. Can you see if it works on their site (ckeditor.com). The current version is 4.5.4. Maybe they fixed it. You can upgrade CKEditor yourself in elog by just copying the new verson over the old /elog/scripts/ckeditor directory.

Updating CKeditor did work, thanks for the tip.

Is there any way to configure elog so that attribute fields can be edited 
on more than line like the 'text' field? 

(This would be useful so that attributes could contain larger portions of 
text including line breaks)

thanks

Paul

> Is there any way to configure elog so that attribute fields can be edited 
> on more than line like the 'text' field? 
> 
> (This would be useful so that attributes could contain larger portions of 
> text including line breaks)

No, but this request is already on the wishlist
(http://midas.psi.ch/elog/wishlist.html) since some time. I added your vote.

> > Is there any way to configure elog so that attribute fields can be edited 
> > on more than line like the 'text' field? 
> > 
> > (This would be useful so that attributes could contain larger portions of 
> > text including line breaks)
> 
> No, but this request is already on the wishlist
> (http://midas.psi.ch/elog/wishlist.html) since some time. I added your vote.

Stefan,

Was just wondering about the status of the multi-line attributes in Elog, are 
they implemented in elog yet? If not is that something you are planning to do 
in the future?

many thanks

Paul

> Was just wondering about the status of the multi-line attributes in Elog, are 
> they implemented in elog yet? If not is that something you are planning to do 
> in the future?

In order to have multi-line attributes, the whole format of the logbooks has to be
changed. I plan to use XML for the logbook format in the future. We would not have
any more one file per day, but one big file per logbook. I have already some XML
functionality in elog, but this one requires a major rewrite of the whole code. On
the other hand, searching etc. will become much faster afterwards. I plan to start
this development soon, but it might take quite some time, so don't expect it
before summer or fall.

Best regards,

  Stefan

> > Was just wondering about the status of the multi-line attributes in Elog, are 
> > they implemented in elog yet? If not is that something you are planning to do 
> > in the future?
> 
> In order to have multi-line attributes, the whole format of the logbooks has to be
> changed. I plan to use XML for the logbook format in the future. We would not have
> any more one file per day, but one big file per logbook. I have already some XML
> functionality in elog, but this one requires a major rewrite of the whole code. On
> the other hand, searching etc. will become much faster afterwards. I plan to start
> this development soon, but it might take quite some time, so don't expect it
> before summer or fall.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
>   Stefan

Thanks for your help, thats useful to know.

Paul

> > > Was just wondering about the status of the multi-line attributes in Elog, are 
> > > they implemented in elog yet? If not is that something you are planning to do 
> > > in the future?
> > 
> > In order to have multi-line attributes, the whole format of the logbooks has to be
> > changed. I plan to use XML for the logbook format in the future. We would not have
> > any more one file per day, but one big file per logbook. I have already some XML
> > functionality in elog, but this one requires a major rewrite of the whole code. On
> > the other hand, searching etc. will become much faster afterwards. I plan to start
> > this development soon, but it might take quite some time, so don't expect it
> > before summer or fall.
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > 
> >   Stefan
> 
> Thanks for your help, thats useful to know.
> 
> Paul

Hi Stefan,

any update on the multi-line request?

cheers,

Paolo

> > > > Was just wondering about the status of the multi-line attributes in Elog, are 
> > > > they implemented in elog yet? If not is that something you are planning to do 
> > > > in the future?
> > > 
> > > In order to have multi-line attributes, the whole format of the logbooks has to be
> > > changed. I plan to use XML for the logbook format in the future. We would not have
> > > any more one file per day, but one big file per logbook. I have already some XML
> > > functionality in elog, but this one requires a major rewrite of the whole code. On
> > > the other hand, searching etc. will become much faster afterwards. I plan to start
> > > this development soon, but it might take quite some time, so don't expect it
> > > before summer or fall.
> > > 
> > > Best regards,
> > > 
> > >   Stefan
> > 
> > Thanks for your help, thats useful to know.
> > 
> > Paul
> 
> Hi Stefan,
> 
> any update on the multi-line request?

Nope. Too many other things to do during my "day job".

Stefan

> > > > > Was just wondering about the status of the multi-line attributes in Elog, are 
> > > > > they implemented in elog yet? If not is that something you are planning to do 
> > > > > in the future?
> > > > 
> > > > In order to have multi-line attributes, the whole format of the logbooks has to be
> > > > changed. I plan to use XML for the logbook format in the future. We would not have
> > > > any more one file per day, but one big file per logbook. I have already some XML
> > > > functionality in elog, but this one requires a major rewrite of the whole code. On
> > > > the other hand, searching etc. will become much faster afterwards. I plan to start
> > > > this development soon, but it might take quite some time, so don't expect it
> > > > before summer or fall.
> > > > 
> > > > Best regards,
> > > > 
> > > >   Stefan
> > > 
> > > Thanks for your help, thats useful to know.
> > > 
> > > Paul
> > 
> > Hi Stefan,
> > 
> > any update on the multi-line request?
> 
> Nope. Too many other things to do during my "day job".
> 
> Stefan

Thank you, your eLog is already a very good instrument!

> > Is there any way to configure elog so that attribute fields can be edited 
> > on more than line like the 'text' field? 
> > 
> > (This would be useful so that attributes could contain larger portions of 
> > text including line breaks)
> 
> No, but this request is already on the wishlist
> (http://midas.psi.ch/elog/wishlist.html) since some time. I added your vote.

Hi Stefan, could you add my vote for this feature too please?

Many thx

After submitting a new post, if the page is left completely alone,, it will after a few minutes prompt that the page needs to resend information.

This is the same prompt you'd get if you attempt to refresh a page that had session variables passsed to it. Example is attached.

Is there something in my config that could cause this?   This is a fresh install of the latest verison however my elogd.cfg file has been migrated throuh many installs over many versions, so it's very possible this is something following along.

thanks.

Start with the demo example configuration, add one line after the other from your config, and figure out which is the offending statement in your config, then post a minimal configuration here which triggers the problem.

Hi All,

I got into trouble setting up the automated email notification.

elog.cfg:

;Send automatic email notifications
SMTP host = mail.ihep.ac.cn
;SMTP host = 127.0.0.1

;Some SMTP server require username/passowrd authentication
;elogd -t <your password> for creating SMTP password
SMTP username = wux@ihep.ac.cn

SMTP Password = .JYEytMGvsHANeCIfQJXmscIt4NOtzJ8GbAnh3XH280
;SMTP Password = V3gxMzYxODAxMjAxNA==
;No Email notification
Suppress Email to users = 1

elogd -v:

GET /LEBT/?cmd=Forgot&login_name=wux HTTP/1.1
timezone: -28800, offset: 28800

Email from <wux@ihep.ac.cn> to wux@ihep.ac.cn, SMTP host mail.ihep.ac.cn:
220 ihep.ac.cn Anti-spam GT for Coremail System (ihep[20151015])
EHLO 10.1.44.220
250-mail
250-PIPELINING
250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN
250-AUTH=LOGIN PLAIN
250-coremail 1Uxr2xKj7kG0xkI17xGrUDI0s8FY2U3Uj8Cz28x1UUUUU7Ic2I0Y2Url11UVUCa0xDrUUUUj
250-STARTTLS
250 8BITMIME
AUTH LOGIN
username:
wux@ihep.ac.cnPassword:
.JYEytMGvsHANeCIfQJXmscIt4NOtzJ8GbAnh3XH280
535 Error: authentication failed

test with telnet:

[wux@logbook ~/elog]$ telnet mail.ihep.ac.cn 25
Trying 202.38.128.6...
Connected to mail.ihep.ac.cn.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 ihep.ac.cn Anti-spam GT for Coremail System (ihep[20151015])
EHLO 10.1.44.220
250-mail
250-PIPELINING
250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN
250-AUTH=LOGIN PLAIN
250-coremail 1Uxr2xKj7kG0xkI17xGrUDI0s8FY2U3Uj8Cz28x1UUUUU7Ic2I0Y2Ur3T0__UCa0xDrUUUUj
250-STARTTLS
250 8BITMIME
AUTH LOGIN
334 dXNlcm5hbWU6
AUTH PLAIN
535 Error: authentication failed
Connection closed by foreign host.

Any advice and suggestions will be appreciate.

Hi ELOG Community,

Please help me to configure my smtp server in Windows using gmail server

This is what in my config:

SMTP host = smtp.gmail.com

SMTP username = raymund.dawang@engagis.com (company email subscribing in gmail)
SMTP Password = xxxxxxx
 

And I was prompted by this error in ELOG: Error sending Email via <i>"smtp.gmail.com"</i>: 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first. ir5sm11631778pbc.13 - gsmtp

Apprecite you help. Thanks.

I suspect that this might be a Debian packaging issue; however no one replied to my help request on the Debian forums so I try posting the question also here. I insatlled Elog on my Debian Jessie machine, I can open it with a browser but when entering a new post just a simple plain text editing box is shown instead of the WYSIWYG editor, and no drag and drop area for attachments is shown. When I start the elog service with "systemctl start elog" I get this suspect message in the journal: "FCKedit NOT detected". Indeed, I see that the elog installation creates a symlink which I guess is supposed to point to the fckeditor installation, which nevertheless is missing:

root@static-3-080:/usr/share/elog/scripts# ll fckeditor
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Oct 25  2014 fckeditor -> ../../fckeditor
root@static-3-080:/usr/share/elog/scripts# ll ../../fckeditor
ls: cannot access ../../fckeditor: No such file or directory

Is this a Deban misconfiguration or a bug in Elog? thanks

Hi Andreas, I opted for the first solution since the Debian package, although outdated and broken, has some goodies like a systemd unit for managing the daemon which is very handy. I downloaded FCKeditor 2.6.11 from SourceForge (after a long search, seems that CKeditor made its parent almost disappear from the web), unpacked it in the proper folder and not the WYSIWYG editor works. I have just a couple of minor issues: there is no attachment drop area (I had it in my old Debian 6 server) and the editor toolbar has an ugly "Windows 95" look; see the attached image. I can live with these problems but if the can be easily fixed then obviously I would do that, can you give me any hint? Thank you very much.

Elog 3.x comes with CKeditor, not FCKeditor any more! I would actually recommend to use the CKeditor from the current Elog 3.1.1 source package if running together with Elog 3.1.1.

Hi Andreas, understood. I found a 3.1.0 package for Debian unstable but it won't install on Jessie since it depends on a newer version of openssl, and it seems to not have a systemd unit (not sure about that, though). I can live with my old version now that the WYSIWYG editor works, and in the meantime I'll keep my eyes open for a brave soul who would eventually package a newer elog version for Jessie.

Thanks again for the support.