SID-01164: Can't send mail with SendEmailForm

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	5.0.2	Perl version:	v5.10.1 (*) built for x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi
Category:	SendEmailPlugin	Server OS:	Ubuntu 10.04.2 2.6.32-31-server	Last update:	12 years ago

When I try to send a mail I see:

"Not Found

The requested URL /bin/sendemail/Sandbox/TestTopic3 was not found on this server." But this is not Eror 404, because when I point browser to https://twiki.domain.com/bin/sendemailSALT I see:

"Not Found

The requested URL /bin/sendemailSALT was not found on this server. Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu) Server at twiki.ektos.net Port 443"

Twiki 5, Apache. Plug-in test successful. Apache error.log doesn't contain any message regarding this. access.log contain only records with 404 code. So I think this is a Twiki message. How to fix this error?

-- MaximStrukov - 2011-05-04

Discussion and Answer

Have you checked the maillog that if any log appears there? What path you have set in configure for mailprogram?

-- FarzanQureshi - 2011-05-05

Hello. Have you installed any MTA (sendmail, postfix, exim, qmail, etc...)? I am not sure if it is installed by default.

https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/postfix.html

-- EnriqueCadalso - 2011-05-05

Why this URL? It is supposed to be just !https://twiki.domain.com/bin/sendemail

-- PeterThoeny - 2011-05-07

Have an installed sendmail on the server. Work with twiki, all ok. Sendmail logs - empty for this task.

https://twiki.domain.com/bin/sendemail don't work:

"Not Found

The requested URL /bin/sendemail was not found on this server."

/bin/sendemail/Sandbox/TestTopic3 from the form also don't work:

"Not Found

The requested URL /bin/sendemail/Sandbox/TestTopic3 was not found on this server."

cat /var/www/twiki/bin/sendemail

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
#
# Script for TWiki Enterprise Collaboration Platform, http://TWiki.org/
#
# Copyright (C) 2007-2011 TWiki Contributors.
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
# as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
# of the License, or (at your option) any later version. For
# more details read LICENSE in the root of this distribution.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
#
# As per the GPL, removal of this notice is prohibited

BEGIN {
if ( defined $ENV{GATEWAY_INTERFACE} or defined $ENV{MOD_PERL} ) {
$TWiki::cfg{Engine} = 'TWiki::Engine::CGI';
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
$SIG{__DIE__} = \&CGI::Carp::confess;
}
else {
$TWiki::cfg{Engine} = 'TWiki::Engine::CLI';
require Carp;
$SIG{__DIE__} = \&Carp::confess;
}
$ENV{TWIKI_ACTION} = 'sendemail';
@INC = ('.', grep { $_ ne '.' } @INC);
require 'setlib.cfg';
}

use TWiki;
use TWiki::UI;
$TWiki::engine->run();

But if I change $ENV{TWIKI_ACTION} = 'sendemail'; to $ENV{TWIKI_ACTION} = 'view'; then https://twiki.domain.com/bin/sendemail works like as https://twiki.domain.com/bin/view so my Apache can access to this file and found.

I think the problem somewhere inside the plug or Twiki, but not in the server configuration.

-- MaximStrukov - 2011-05-10

Hi,

I have the same problem with 5.0.2 under Solaris 10.

Both "sendemail" and "view" don't work, in the case of "view" no error but no mail is sent.

I tried using $mailprogram Net::smtp & sendmail

-- FredericBourdon - 2011-06-23

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-- PeterThoeny - 2011-08-01

This is probably because the Switchboard configuration is missing from their LocalSite.cfg. I just had the problem ("Not found..."), and it was a bear figuring it out.

$TWiki::cfg{SwitchBoard}{sendemail} = [
          'TWiki::Plugins::SendEmailPlugin::Core',
          'sendEmail',
          {
            'sendemail' => 1
          }
        ];

-- AaronLWalker - 2012-02-28

what should I do if I use sendmail?

i.e. my setting:

{MailProgram} /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -oi -oeq

and I have such error: errorStatus=2

I found post here: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/SendEmailPluginDev

errorStatus=2 means there is an error. The plugin uses Net:SMTP, so check your configure settings under Mail and Proxies. {SMTP}{SENDERHOST}, {SMTP}{Username} and {SMTP}{Password} need to be set.

-- Pavel Patcheptsov - 2013-01-25

I second Aaron's answer; I had the same problem and the same solution (i.e. adding the SwitchBoard setting to LocalSite.cfg) worked. I don't know why it didn't get added automatically like all the other configuration options.

-- Michael Shulman - 2013-01-29

Bug report filed: http://develop.twiki.org/~twiki4/cgi-bin/view/Bugs/Item7228

-- Vicki Brown - 2013-04-12

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