[ic] how does IC email orders?

Phillip A. Ryals interchange-users@lists.akopia.com
Tue Jun 12 16:12:01 2001


No mail for interch.
No mail for root.
And there's nothing about it in error.log.

Any other ideas?  Does IC use sendmail or something?  I'm running IC on a
stock server where sendmail is installed but not configured.  Is a working
sendmail install required?

-phillip


> > I have setup IC to email orders to my address for testing.  It
> > has my email
> > address in the ORDERS_TO variable, but I never receive them.
> >
> > How exactly does IC email them?  There's nothing (that I've
> found) in the
> > documentation on setting it up for email... so what am I supposed to do?
>
> Did you restart the Interchange server? Also, I have had a
> similar problem,
> though I never quite figured it out. I wasn't receiving the email at the
> email address listed in variables.txt, but it was being delivered to
> my_telnet_login_id@my_virtual_domain.com. I asked for help from the list,
> but no one obviously knew what was going on. Telnet into your
> server and see
> if 'you have mail', then type 'mail' to retrieve it, or look to the error
> logs, as I think the (lost) orders posted there, also. I suspect
> it may have
> been a permissions problem, though I have not had this problem before or
> since then. Subsequent installs of Interchange did not help, but after the
> site was moved, all was well. Weirdness.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Curt Hauge