Question

I'm trying to get mailnotify to work and everytime I run the mailnotify script I get the following server error: "malformed header from script. Bad header=TWiki mail notification: /home/skyloom/public_html/twiki/bin/mailnotify.pl".

Anyone have an idea what this might mean or where I might look for problem?

Many thanks!

• TWiki version: Dec 01
• Web server: Apache
• Server OS: Linux
• Web browser: Mozilla
• Client OS: Mac OSX

-- LynnwoodBrown - 22 Nov 2002

Here's the additional info suggested in SupportGuidelines (thanks Richard):

• Link to new testenv: http://twiki.skyloom.com/bin/testenv.pl
• Link to my TWiki site: http://twiki.skyloom.com/bin/view.pl/Main/WebHome
• My config file: TWiki.cfg

I did a google search for TWiki "malformed header" and came up with a couple hits. The only one that appeared remotely related was IllegalEmailAddressBug since it involved email addresses. However, that topic suggest this was an old bug that was resolved some time ago.

-- LynnwoodBrown - 23 Nov 2002

Answer

Please read the SupportGuidelines and provide the information requested in there, particularly your TWiki.cfg and output of the latest testenv from CVSget:bin/testenv.

-- RichardDonkin - 23 Nov 2002

I spent some time on this problem this evening and have fixed it. I ran the mailnotify script and found error messages that mentioned SessionPlugin and TreePlugin. I disabled these two plugins and mailnotify worked fine. I have no idea why these two plugins were creating trouble...

-- LynnwoodBrown - 08 Dec 2002

It's probably SessionPlugin - this writes headers that are probably causing the problem. It would make sense to disable such plugins from mailnotify. Anyone running a release later than Dec 2001 should use the patch I put on SessionPluginDev, which makes it work with TWikiAlphaRelease.

-- RichardDonkin - 08 Dec 2002