SID-01309: WebNotify stopped working

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	5.1.0	Perl version:	Perl, v5.10.0
Category:	CategoryEmail	Server OS:	Debian Linux 2.6.14.4	Last update:	14 years ago

Hi everyone!

I am currently running TWiki-5.1.0, Sat, 20 Aug 2011, build 22128 and have run into a problem regarding MailerContrib & WebNotify.

I had a working setup with only an e-mail address in the notification list. Changes were detected and the regarding e-mail was "notified". This was also readable in the output of mailnotify.

However since yesterday, changes are detected and the exact same mail address is not notified anymore. When I use any WikiName instead, notification e-mails are generated (log) and received properly.

Changing and calling mailnotify manually from command line, I can see that the made changes are registerred and the correct e-mail addresses for the individual webs are listed as recipients before the "Last notification was ..." message. Unfortunately no "Notified XYZ" message is printed & no e-mail can be received on the provided e-mail account.

There have been no changes to the TWiki configuration. I must be missing something.

Thank you for your time & help! Daniel

-- DanielPfefferkorn - 2011-10-26

Discussion and Answer

Push! Does nobody have an idea or an anwser?

Hope to hear from you, because the problem drives me nuts.

-- DanielPfefferkorn - 2011-10-31

Hey everybody!

It turns out that the FOSWiki docu (http://foswiki.org/System/MailerContrib) is actually better than TWiki's. Here's what happened:

After configuring the mail notifications, I revised the security settings & denied the TwikiGuest account (default for unauthenticated users) viewing rights. In turn this prevented MailerContrib from sending out e-mails, because of the following property:

Warning: Because an email address is not linked to a user name, there is no way for Foswiki to check access controls for subscribers identified by email addresses. A subscriber identified by an email address alone will only be sent change notifications if the topic they are subscribed to is readable by guest users.

I know setup a pseudo-user for my notification e-mail lists, re-configured "WebNotifications" and it works.

-- DanielPfefferkorn - 2011-11-07

Hmm, I just checked, MailerContrib has that warning message.

-- PeterThoeny - 2011-11-08

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