Sorry, I didn't know there were any (I've not used Elog for years and I think Cygwin was the only way back then). Tried them now and they seem to work. At least no stack error is caused. I'm getting some other error, but I think it's the handshake with the SMTP. I'll validate it's OK until tomorrow.

Windows binaries also solved the issue with the "Top grop" in my other bug rapport.

Thanks for the help!

Unfortunately can't validate this right now. I'm at a remote network trying to get ELOG on my Windows laptop working with e-mail notifications. Either my normal ISP will not allow the SMTP to accept relaying from external networks, or something else is wrong.

The Windows binary is behaving somewhat differently, it seems to behave like earlier versions. I.e. the error message seen on the browser (Error sending Email via "smtp.xxx.xxx") is very limited. Logging (level 6) will not revile much and -v doesn't output any hints either. Assuming the first possible cause, I registered a account at gmail to try see if their SMTP would allow e-mail relaying. Trying with the Windows binary version I seemingly leads to the same result (i.e. I don't see much and the error seen at the browser is the same). However, when trying to run ELOG on a machine at my home network the message is different:

Error sending Email via "smtp.gmail.com": 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first. w40sm7583927ugc.6

The message does not surprise me (from previous experience, TLS was what made made postfix complicated to set up too). But what does surprise me is that the messages differ between the two (ELOG V2.7.5 running on a Linux machine and the Windows binary of the same version). Does Linux/Windows versions differ by conditionals in the code or did I somehow get an older Windows binary?

It would also be helpful knowing if ayone has got ELOG working with smtp.gmail.com.

Regards /Michael

Unfortunately can't validate this right now. I'm at a remote network trying to get ELOG on my Windows laptop working with e-mail notifications. Either my normal ISP will not allow the SMTP to accept relaying from external networks, or something else is wrong.

The Windows binary is behaving somewhat differently, it seems to behave like earlier versions. I.e. the error message seen on the browser (Error sending Email via "smtp.xxx.xxx") is very limited. Logging (level 6) will not revile much and -v doesn't output any hints either. Assuming the first possible cause, I registered a account at gmail to try see if their SMTP would allow e-mail relaying. Trying with the Windows binary version I seemingly leads to the same result (i.e. I don't see much and the error seen at the browser is the same). However, when trying to run ELOG on a machine at my home network the message is different:

Error sending Email via "smtp.gmail.com": 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first. w40sm7583927ugc.6

The message does not surprise me (from previous experience, TLS was what made made postfix complicated to set up too). But what does surprise me is that the messages differ between the two (ELOG V2.7.5 running on a Linux machine and the Windows binary of the same version). Does Linux/Windows versions differ by conditionals in the code or did I somehow get an older Windows binary?

It would also be helpful knowing if ayone has got ELOG working with smtp.gmail.com.

Regards /Michael

Hi,

I was wondering if anybody else seen this problem and maybe has a solution. I use Elog version 2.7.5 rev. 2172 that I compiled from the tar.gz package on a Ubuntu PC. It is very strange that everything works fine except I can not view / download PDF attachments specifically. I can view / download images and I can download all sorts of file formats: xls, doc, ppt, etc. Viewing in the same window / tab or in a different one does not work. Saving the attachment produces a file empty file with the correct name! This is so strange, for example following a link from an image or any other attachment type works but if that link is a PDF file I get an empty page! When uploading a PDF file there a thumbnails that are generated, I do view the thumbnail but not the PDF itself! I didn't even managed to start a download on PDF attachment.

Any help would be appreciated!

This sounds to me like you have a problem on your browser. I know that Acrobat Reader sometimes causes problems. The current version always crashes my broswer, so I cannot display PDFs inline, I rather have to same them, and the open them for display. Maybe you have a simlar problem. Since you see the PDF thumbnails, I believe that the PDF operations indise ELOG are ok. Can you view PDFs from other websites? Have you tried another browser? Maybe on another computer?

- Stefan 

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. I just checked the access from two other computers and indeed it works. I tried to see what is the problem with my browser, I use Firefox 3.0.6 and tried to get a PDF from the web. So I do have the same problem with other sites for viewing a PDF, I mean when I click on a PDF link I get a white page and the browser does not invoke any plug-in or Acrobat Reader. But the major difference with Elog is that with other sites I can always right click on the link and do "Save as" and it starts the download and I get a valid file. With elog it does start the download but I get an empty file. Actually I checked inside and it is not really empty, it is a text file, here I attached an example (the content of the file when I tried to download a PDF from the Elog server):

gornea@hadriana ~
$ cat Ba_source_GG_Feb09.pdf
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html><head>
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
<title>ELOG Login</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="default.css">
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" />
<link rel="icon" href="favicon.png" type="image/png" />
</head>
<body OnLoad="document.form1.uname.focus();">
<form name=form1 method="POST" action="./" enctype="multipart/form-data">

<input type=hidden name=redir value="090219_111057/Ba_source_GG_Feb09.pdf">
<table class="dlgframe" cellspacing=0 align=center><tr><td colspan=2 class="dlgtitle">Please login</td></tr>
<tr><td align=right class="dlgform">Username:</td>
<td align=left class="dlgform"><input type=text name=uname value=""></td></tr>
<tr><td align=right class="dlgform">Password:</td>
<td align=left class="dlgform"><input type=password name=upassword></td></tr>
<tr><td align=center colspan=2 class="dlgform"><input type=checkbox checked name=remember value=1>
Keep me logged in on this computer<br>
for the next 31 days or until I log out</td></tr>
<tr><td align=center colspan=2 class="dlgform">
<a href="?cmd=Forgot">Forgot password?</a></td></tr>
<tr><td align=center colspan=2 class="dlgform"><input type=submit value="Submit"></td></tr></table>
<center><a class="bottomlink" title="Goto ELOG home page" href="https://midas.psi.ch/elog/">ELOG V2.7.5-2172</a></center></form></body></html>