Question

I'm not receiving any alerts from the WebNotify facility at twiki.org.

I've tried changing my email a few times, to see if it might be a local mail-configuration issue, but that didn't seem to fix the problem.

So I'm curious if there is a problem with the mail service or cron job at twiki.org at the moment - am I the only unlucky fellow, or are you in the same position?

-- SteffenPoulsen - 04 Aug 2004

Environment

-- SteffenPoulsen - 04 Aug 2004

Answer

Outgoing mail originating from web servers is blocked at SourceForge, where TWiki.org is hosted. That is the reason why notify does currently not work.

-- PeterThoeny - 06 Aug 2004

Awww, that sucks. Thanks for clearing up the issue.

-- SteffenPoulsen - 06 Aug 2004

I took the liberty of asking sourgeforge.net about this issue in their support-forum. In their opinion, there is a way for mail to be sent from twiki.org - quote: "We allow mail to be sent from pr-web".

I would like your opinion on this - is there yet another technical limititation beyond this issue, or does this in any way clear up things?

The full issue history is at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=200001&aid=1004450&group_id=1. If you can provide any log or debug information from the mail subsystem to clarify the issue, it might bring up something?

I'm guess I'm just a bit eager to see the notifications working again

-- SteffenPoulsen - 01 Sep 2004

Let's see if this works. I set SMTPMAILHOST = pr-web.sourceforge.net in TWiki.TWikiPreferences#Email_and_Proxy_Server_Settings. If that does not work I will try localhost.

-- PeterThoeny - 02 Sep 2004

I just read TWikiOnSourceForge, in which there is a link to http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=6695&group_id=1 ("SourceForge.net: Email Problems: Spam, Bounces, Unreceived Messages"). Does this provide any hints?

On the side: Are any of the mails returned to a recognizable account, that can be emptyed - and if yes, do they contain any debugging/tracing information?

-- SteffenPoulsen - 07 Oct 2004

I tried several different things without luck. I am not going to spend more time on this since we are moving TWiki.org to a dedicated server.

-- PeterThoeny - 01 Nov 2004

That makes sense - thanks for your effort anyway

-- SteffenPoulsen - 02 Nov 2004