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I've upgraded my web and mail server to IIS7 and PHP 5.2.11

Geeklog 1.5.1 is having intermittent problems in sending mail to users.

For Example, if I send 10 emails one after another to a user (using the Send email form) less than half will be sent. There are no errors reported on screen and none in the error.log. The mail server only reports success on the emails actually sent. On the emails not sent the mail server logs don't even report an attempt to communicate by Geeklog

Another Example, I only get about half the emails from story submissions or notification to admin about new comments. For these I actually get an error message reported in geeklogs error file:

10/15/09 11:33:40 - [pear_error: message="Failed to connect to 192.168.1.100:25 [SMTP: Invalid response code received from server (code: -1, response: )]" code=10001 mode=return level=notice prefix="" info=""]

I don't think it is a mail server problem as I can send and receive emails no problem when using a email client like Outlook.

Thanks for any replies

Tom

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One of the Geeklog Core Developers.

I figured out why I wasn't always getting an error message in the log file when mail was not being sent. I was triggering the speed limit in the profiles.php around line 78 and it doesn't return a message to the user, it just refreshes the homepage.

This means my mail problem is not really happening half the time but maybe only a quarter of the time and I always do get the above pear error message.

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One of the Geeklog Core Developers.

Not sure if it helps: I made a mental note to see if this debugging tip could be rolled into COM_mail somehow:


HTH

bye, Dirk

Thanks

I will give it a try.

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One of the Geeklog Core Developers.

Hey Dirk,

I found if I switched the Mail Settings[backend] config option from SMTP to mail my problem has gone away.

What is the main difference between the two?

Tom

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One of the Geeklog Core Developers.

:rtfm: Configuring email

bye, Dirk

Hmmm must of missed that page when I did a search.

Anyways I thought mail was the php mail function but I didn't look further once com_mail called the pear library.

In regards to your previous message, I did turn debug mode on in pear but didn't get any real additional information when an error happen. All it told me was a QUIT message was sent which my mail server logs confirmed (geeklog had logged in but then it quit).

I rather use SMTP but I am glad mail is working.

Tom

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One of the Geeklog Core Developers.