Hi,

We have set up a elog server at our institute. The configuration file is
attached. We have the following queries:

1. When replying to another reply in a thread, the author_name attribute is
not substitued (as desired). Since this is a mandatory field, we are not
able to send the reply message. However, reply to the originial message
works fine.

2. "Use Email From = string" prepends an additional "" to the "From"
field in the e-mails.

3. "Fixed Attributes Reply = Subject" fixes the subject line while replying.
However when we add "Category" attribute to this list, it breaks.

Can someone help us?

Suggestions and tips will be thankfully recieved.

> > 1. When replying to another reply in a thread, the author_name attribute is
> > not substitued (as desired). Since this is a mandatory field, we are not
> > able to send the reply message. However, reply to the originial message
> > works fine.
> 
> Preset on reply Author = $long_name
> 
> Do not use "Remove on reply".

This worked. Thanks.

> 
> > 2. "Use Email From = string" prepends an additional "" to the "From"
> > field in the e-mails.
> 
> This has been fixed recently, please update.

Agani, thanks for the information.

> 
> > 3. "Fixed Attributes Reply = Subject" fixes the subject line while replying.
> > However when we add "Category" attribute to this list, it breaks.
> 
> I tried to use your config file and add
> 
> Fixed attributes reply = Subject, Category
> 
> and it worked as expected. What kind of "break" did you observe?

For me, when I put the Category in the fixed attributes for reply, I see the
Category but when I actually try to send the message - it says Category not
entered. I am sure I am doing something very stupid. Please help.

- Anand.

Hi

We have setup a elog server and would like to import a bunch of emails as
elog entries. Is there some way we can do this ? Since there are hundreds of
emails, it is not possible to post them individually as new elog entries.

Many thanks,
Anand.

Hello, I'm having problems with e-mail notifications.

When I try submitting a new post, I get the following error:

Error sending Email via "smtp.glocalnet.net"

The error message doesn't give a lot of hints...

My config file contains the following lines:

[global]
SMTP host = smtp.glocalnet.net
SMTP username = rhj764h@tninet.se
SMTP Password = xxx

...

[BugZ]

...

Email All = somebody@gmail.com
Use Email From = theproject@kato.homelinux.org

The password was created by invoking elogd with the -t option containing the true password. I've tried enter the correct password manually in the config, but the error message is the same.

Below follows a cut&paste of the console output when invoking with the -v option (addresses manually edited to avoid spam):

Email ALL to somebody@gmail.com

timezone: -3600, offset: 3600


Email from theproject@kato.homelinux.org to somebody@gmail.com, SMTP host smtp
.glocalnet.net:
220 mta3.glocalnet.net ESMTP Service ready
EHLO kato.homelinux.org
250-mta3.glocalnet.net
250-DSN
250-8BITMIME
250-PIPELINING
250-HELP
250-AUTH=LOGIN
250-AUTH LOGIN CRAM-MD5 PLAIN
250-X-CP-DELIVER-AFTER
250-DELIVERBY 300
250 SIZE
==== Return ================================
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Server: ELOG HTTP 2.6.3-1762
Connection: Keep-Alive
Keep-Alive: timeout=60, max=10
Location: http://kato.homelinux.org/elog-tinker/BugZ/6?error=Error+sending+Email
+via+<i>"smtp.glocalnet.net"</i>
Content-Length: 20

I can't make any sense of this. Please advise.

Regards

/Michael Ambrus

An update:

I got rid of the version from the Ubuntu repo and installed the latest source release instead (2.7.5-2130).

The error is now a little bit different:

Error sending Email via "smtp.glocalnet.net": Syntax error in parameters or arguments to MAIL command

A snippet from the console output:

250-DELIVERBY 300
250 SIZE
AUTH LOGIN
`±è·    ♦Username:
cmhqNzY0aEB0bmluZXQuc2U=
Password:
ajh6N2E4
235 LOGIN authentication successful
MAIL FROM: theproject@kato.homelinux.org
501 Syntax error in parameters or arguments to MAIL command
==== Return ================================

BR /Michael

I think I found out what the problem was and e-mail notification now works.

Apparently 'MAIL FROM' syntax used by my ISP expects the address to be within <>.

Adding those in the config file fixes the problem:

Use Email From = <user@domain>

Note that the documentation indicates that the brackets should not be there and I'm not sure if this is a bug or not yet. According to this link the brackets should be there but I think to be consistent with other e-mail related attributes in the config file, they should be added by ELOG.

The 'Email' attibute however seems to work fine without the brackests. I.e.

Email All = user@doman

is OK.

I'm not very familiar with SMTP but I was fiddling around with this some time ago setting up a postfix MT. I eventually succeeded with my ISP, but not with gmail's SMTP. Apperently there are differences with the log-in procedure.

Maybe various differences in login procedure could be handled by allowing ELOG to optionally to use an external program like mailto to handle it's mailing?

SMTP external = 0|1

I think I understand (and actually appreciate) the policy of not depending on external programs. Just a suggestion...

BR

/Michael

Having "Top group" in a config-file for Windows will cause:

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: eudr6j03j:8084
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; sv-SE; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/20
08120122 Firefox/3.0.5
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: sv-se,sv;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Cookie: unm=mambrus; upwd=U2lzc2kx; urem=0
Cache-Control: max-age=0


Internal error, no valid header!

Removing "top group" makes elogd.exe work. The error is repeatable and the same config file works on the same version of Elog on Linux. Elog was compiled with Cygwin.

Stack error is caused when an entry is submitted in a e-mail notification enabled log when a new entry is submitted. This error does not happen on linux (same Elog version, same config file).

Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help.

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Content-Disposition: form-data; name="attfile"; filename=""
Content-Type: application/octet-stream


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timezone: 0, offset: 0
      6 [main] elogd 2816 _cygtls::handle_exceptions: Error while dumping state
(probably corrupted stack)
Segmentation fault (core dumped)