SID-00260: Mailnotify works except news

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	4.2.3	Perl version:	5.6.1
Category:	MailerContrib	Server OS:	Windows Server 2000	Last update:	16 years ago

Mailnotify is working for all my webs. Today I created a newsletter page and a cron job to send (added -news to the existing crontab job). Even though there is a topic that I've subscribed to that has changed, I get errors on the -news run as follows:

ERROR: Can't send mail, missing 'From:' at D:\twiki\lib/TWiki/Net.pm line 381.

ERROR: Can't send mail, missing 'From:' at D:\twiki\lib/TWiki/Net.pm line 381.

ERROR: Can't send mail, missing 'From:' at D:\twiki\lib/TWiki/Net.pm line 381.

ERROR: Can't send mail, missing 'From:' at D:\twiki\lib/TWiki/Net.pm line 381.

Too many failures sending mail

My normal (without -news option) webnotifies all work. This only happens if I add the -news option. For testing, I ensured that the page I had subscribed to had changed. Also, this is running by itself (not at the same time as another cron job).

The complete command line is: c:\perl\bin\perl -I d:\twiki\bin d:\twiki\tools\mailnotify -news

This is in a Windows environment.

-- PaulOpitz - 2009-04-09

Discussion and Answer

Despite the instructions specifically saying:

• If %STARTPUBLISH% is the first control tag seen in the file, everything before it will be ignored.

In fact, if you want to ignore the first part of a topic, a %STOPPUBLISH% is needed at the beginning of the topic. (At least, doing that solved my problem...)

-- PaulOpitz - 2009-04-16

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