[ic] unable to send mail

[Ed LaFrance]

At 10:08 AM 07/11/2002 -0700, you wrote:
> > At 05:05 PM 7/8/2002 -0700, you wrote:
> > >Dear List,
> > >
> > >Every so often I am seeing this in my error log:
> > >
> > ><ip/session/date> catalog /store/catalog/process.html Unable to send mail
> > >using /usr/lib/sendmail
> > >
> > >Then it prints the contents of the email that wasn't sent.  My
> > sendmail is a
> > >symlink to the qmail sendmail wrapper.  Has anyone else
> > experienced this or
> > >know of what's going on here?
> > >
> > >-Russell
> >
> > It works sometimes but not others? That is odd. I also use the
> > Qmail flavor
> > of sendmail and have never had a problem with it. Are you running
> > multiple
> > catalogs or Interchange instances under different ownerships on that
> > machine? Perhaps something with the sendmail permissions?
> >
> > - Ed L.
>
>Dear Ed,
>
>I have other catalogs in the same IC config, but they're not being used at
>all.  I don't have multiple IC installations.  Maybe there is a way for the
>etc/report and etc/mail_receipt files to try over and over again until
>they're able to send mail?
>
>catalog.structure reports sendmail as /usr/lib/sendmail, but I can't find
>any Knar or .cfg setting for it.

There is a SendMailProgram directive for Interchange - I believe the 
default is /usr/lib/sendmail.



>$ ls -la /usr/lib/sendmail
>lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           23 May 18  2000 /usr/lib/sendmail ->
>/var/qmail/bin/sendmail*
>
>$ ls -la /var/qmail/bin/sendmail
>-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     qmail        9.4k Jun 17 15:51
>/var/qmail/bin/sendmail*
>
>
>I'm not using a shared host.
>
>It has been order emails, customer receipts, and other emails also that have
>failed.  The Other emails are on the missing.html page - which I use to
>track down missing pages.  This is my email code:
>
>[email
>to="tech@khouse.org"
>subject="PAGE MISSING ON STORE - [subject]"
>from="store@khouse.org"
>reply="tech@khouse.org"]Missing Page:
>
>[subject]
>
>http://store.khouse.org/store/catalog/[subject]
>
>Q:   [env QUERY_STRING]
>IP:  [env REMOTE_ADDR]
>UA:  [env HTTP_USER_AGENT]
>URI: [env REQUEST_URI]
>REF: [env HTTP_REFERER]
>[/email]
>
>
>Any ideas on where the failure might be?
>
>-Russell

Have you checked any of the logs associated with Qmail?

- Ed L.


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