Dear Team,

I am having a log book and would like to activate the email notification. I have made the changes as per the guidelines but I am getting the error message while submitting the entry - Error sending Email via "smtp.omantel.net.om": 5.5.4 cannot decode AUTH parameter

The details are as below : (Please note I have replaced the password with the * marks)

21-Nov-2014 16:58:28 [harish@127.0.0.1] {SCREENING VISIT} NEW entry #0

21-Nov-2014 16:58:28 [harish@127.0.0.1] {SCREENING VISIT} Email from <harish.amin@holiday.co.om> to harish.amin@holiday.co.om, SMTP host smtp.omantel.net.om

21-Nov-2014 16:58:28 [harish@127.0.0.1] {SCREENING VISIT} 220 fmgw1.omantel.net.om ESMTP Smtpd; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 15:32:52 +0400

21-Nov-2014 16:58:28 [harish@127.0.0.1] {SCREENING VISIT} 

21-Nov-2014 16:58:28 [harish@127.0.0.1] {SCREENING VISIT} EHLO localhost

21-Nov-2014 16:58:29 [harish@127.0.0.1] {SCREENING VISIT} 250-fmgw1.omantel.net.om Hello [188.66.222.72], pleased to meet you

21-Nov-2014 16:58:29 [harish@127.0.0.1] {SCREENING VISIT} 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES

21-Nov-2014 16:58:29 [harish@127.0.0.1] {SCREENING VISIT} 250-PIPELINING

21-Nov-2014 16:58:29 [harish@127.0.0.1] {SCREENING VISIT} 250-8BITMIME

21-Nov-2014 16:58:29 [harish@127.0.0.1] {SCREENING VISIT} 250-SIZE 32235520

21-Nov-2014 16:58:29 [harish@127.0.0.1] {SCREENING VISIT} 250-DSN

21-Nov-2014 16:58:29 [harish@127.0.0.1] {SCREENING VISIT} 250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN

21-Nov-2014 16:58:29 [harish@127.0.0.1] {SCREENING VISIT} 250-STARTTLS

21-Nov-2014 16:58:29 [harish@127.0.0.1] {SCREENING VISIT} 250-DELIVERBY

21-Nov-2014 16:58:29 [harish@127.0.0.1] {SCREENING VISIT} 250 HELP

21-Nov-2014 16:58:29 [harish@127.0.0.1] {SCREENING VISIT} AUTH LOGIN

21-Nov-2014 16:58:29 [harish@127.0.0.1] {SCREENING VISIT} Username

21-Nov-2014 16:58:29 [harish@127.0.0.1] {SCREENING VISIT} harish.amin@holiday.co.om

21-Nov-2014 16:58:29 [harish@127.0.0.1] {SCREENING VISIT} Password

21-Nov-2014 16:58:29 [harish@127.0.0.1] {SCREENING VISIT} ******

21-Nov-2014 16:58:30 [harish@127.0.0.1] {SCREENING VISIT} 501 5.5.4 cannot decode AUTH parameter ******

Please help me to resolve this issue.

Thank you

Harish Amin

 For the login to your email sever, the password is encoded in base64 form (actually not really secure). Somehow your server does not support this. Unfortunately I cannot test this without access to your server. But you can try yourself by doing a telnet to your mail server like:

$ telnet <server.domanin> 25

...

$ AUTH PLAIN

With the "plain" method, you should be able to enter your password in plain text (not base64 encoded), and see if that works. If you are successful, I can add this option to elog.

Best,

Stefan

 Dear Stefan

Thank you for your reply. Please check is my entry correct?

port = 8080

Admin user = harish

url = http://localhost:8080

;Find Menu commands = Logout, New, Find, Select, Config, Last day, Last 10, Help

;Guest Menu commands = Login, Back, Find, Last day, Last 10, Help, Logout

;Guest Find Menu commands = Login, Back, Find, Last day, Last 10, Help

SMTP host = smtp.omantel.net.om

SMTP port = 25

$telnet smtp.omantel.net.om 25

$AUTH PLAIN

SMTP username = harish.amin@holiday.co.om

SMTP Password = ********

Subst Email = $user_email

Logfile = errorh.log

Email Encoding = 4

Entries per page = 50

;Logfile = harish.log

;Logging level = 2

 Dear Stefen,

Please help me & reply on my request. Is my global config correct?

 I would like to put between two entries a new entry.

My Users forgot to put a entry, and now they would like to put a new entry between olders entries.

For Example:

We have 10 entries order by Id:

300

301

302

...

They want to put between the entry 300 and 301 a new entry.

Is possible to do this feature?

Thanks! 

There is nothing within elog itself to insert entry 310 between 300 and 301.  If you allow branching in your logbook. make a second reply to entry 300, and add in the missing details.  That entry will always be there as a reply to 300, but not obviously between 300 and 301.

From this point, any way to improve matters will require editing of the log files (default location /usr/local/elog/logbooks).  I should warn that editing these files can cause problems, including elog to crash, and spotting your error can take a lot of effort.  I speak from experience. I suggest that you have a look at a few entries, the layout of the entries etc first, and if you're still up for it I'll give a quick spin on how to improve the tidyness of how your entires look with 310 inserted between 300 and 301.

I should add what I would write only applies for certain for linux users, as it is my OS of choice.

You are using the entry ID to sort your entries: there is no good way to insert a new entry ID, like 300.5

But you could sort your entries by other means, that allows you to insert entries later between existing entries.

I use for example a "when" attribute of type datetime. Here's an excerpt from the relevant part of my config file:

IMPORTANT SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT

Recently the POODLE vulnerability has been announced: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POODLE 

ELOG is prone to this vulnerability if it runs directly the SSL protocol and can be accessed from the internet. If ELOG runs behind an Apache proxy, and the Apache server has been correctly configured (disabled the SSLv23 protocols), ELOG is safe as well.

To fix this vulnerability, ELOG needs to be recompiled after the attached patch has been applied. This prohibits ELOG to fallback to the insecure SSLv2 & v3 protocols and only use the safe TLSv1 protocol.

If you do not know how to recompile ELOG, please do not run ELOG directly accessible from the internet until the next binary release has been published.

/Stefan Ritt

ELOG contains Kerberos authentication at a basic level. If I'm not mistaken, the Windows Domain controller is based on Kerberos. I do not have any 2008 or 2012 domain controller, so I cannot test, but it's worth giving it a try.

/Stefan 

I have an attribute formatted as a date (but not labeled as date) and is sorted as second priority. The sort works fine until I enter a date older than Jan 1st 2002. When I do this it is sorted as the latest. Is this a bug or simply not designed to use dates this old?

Thanks in advance,

Chris

 Sorry, my mistake. The cutoff date is anything before September 9th 2001 does not sort.

Workaround: you can modify your old entries and add a leading zero to all entries where your specific date field starts with a '9'.

Stefan: you should fix it at least well before 20-Nov-2286 18:46:40, when the same bug strikes again!

Andreas Luedeke wrote:

Chris Jennings wrote: Chris Jennings wrote: I have an attribute formatted as a date (but not labeled as date) and is sorted as second priority. The sort works fine until I enter a date older than Jan 1st 2002. When I do this it is sorted as the latest. Is this a bug or simply not designed to use dates this old? Thanks in advance, Chris  Sorry, my mistake. The cutoff date is anything before September 9th 2001 does not sort. I think I remember that this has been discussed earlier: it is a little bug in elogd. You can see where it comes from if you type in the little command 'date -d "9-Sep-2001 3:46:40" +%s' Converted to "seconds of the epoche" (seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC) the date "9-Sep-2001 3:46:40" has one digit more than "9-Sep-2001 3:46:39". Since elog makes a string comparison, suddenly 1'000'000'000 is less than 999'999'999; therefore the wrong sorting. Workaround: you can modify your old entries and add a leading zero to all entries where your specific date field starts with a '9'. Stefan: you should fix it at least well before 20-Nov-2286 18:46:40, when the same bug strikes again!

Ok, well before 2286 approaches I fixed that bug and committed it to the GIT repository (master branch).

/Stefan 

Hi,

is it possibile to set a default font style: format, font, size, color, etc? how?

Thanks a lot

Sara

You look here: http://midas.psi.ch/elog/config.html#themes 

 Thanks! but I'm lost in the themes/default/default.css file.... which is the entry I have to edit for the style of the body text (Format "Normal") of the elog pages?

Sara

Just change the body { } entry in the CSS file. Here is a good tutorial: http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_syntax.asp 

I have stripped my config file down to one command:   "Preset text = \\ssoelog\elog\templates\test2.txt"

If I type the path "\\ssoelog\elog\templates\test2.txt" into my browser I see the contents of the file, which is the word  "YES"

But when I open a "New" page in ELOG the command returns:    " \\ssoelog\elog\templates\test2.txt"

Could it have anything to do with the fact that I am using Version 2.7.5

Well, I only know that the following config file works fine for me on Linux:

[test]
Attributes = xx
Preset text = /tmp/xx

with the file /tmp/xx containing "test: ignore". When opening a new entry, then the text "test: ignore" is written in the editors text area.

I'm using Version 2.9.2

My suggestion: download the latest Windows Version and try again.